Railway The main railway coming from Europe and crossing Siberia is the Trans-Siberian Railway Moscow - Vladivostok (late 19th - early 20th centuries, www.transsib.ru). A significant part of it passes through Siberia - 5100 km. Almost all regional

Quotes about trains can give an amazing feeling. They can remind you of some travels, memories from distant childhood or the past, maybe they will evoke memories of a train, quotes can do a lot!

Trains are amazing; I still adore them. Traveling by train means seeing nature, people, cities and churches, rivers - in essence it is a journey through life.
Agatha Christie. Autobiography

… I often have to travel by train, and traveling on trains is very stressful. For example, have you noticed that if you are the last one to enter a compartment, you feel as if you are visiting?
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There is a well-known theory, proven many times in practice, that no matter how large number There were no more people in the carriage; one more person could always enter. First with one leg, then with both legs, with his jacket sandwiched between the doors, but he will get in. That is, the method of mathematical induction inexorably proves that an infinite number of people can enter the carriage.
Kitya Carlson. Samurai Cookbook

A train is a type of transport where people truly reveal their souls. On the train, an extremely frank conversation begins a minute after the conversation begins. By the way, do you know why there is such an incredible revelation on trains? Because you are traveling in beds. Have you thought about this? You are traveling in bed to another city. What secrets could there be?
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These are not all aphorisms about trains.

Please, Lord, no neighbors, be human, I beg You.
Max Fry. Yellow metal key

Brew yourself some tea, sit at the table and imagine the sound of wheels. You are going on a long journey, and I am not a psychologist at all, but your random travel companion. Talk to me, easily and openly, as if my station will soon be gone and we will never see each other again. Are you ready? If yes, then simply answer the question: are you happy?
Nadeya Yasminska

Look - around us there are people of all classes, all nationalities, all ages. For three days, these complete strangers are inseparable - they sleep and eat under the same roof. Three days pass, they part, never to meet again, and each goes their own way.
Agatha Christie. Murder on the Orient Express

Black trains thundered, shaking the windows of the house; agitated mountains of smoke, with the movement of ghostly shoulders throwing off the burden, rose in a big way, hiding the blue night sky; The roofs burned with a smooth metal fire under the moon; and a echoing black shadow awakened under the iron bridge when a black train thundered across it, longitudinally through the palisade of light. A rumbling roar and wide smoke seemed to pass right through the house, trembling between the abyss where the rails glimmered, drawn by the moonlight fingernail, and that city street, which was crossed low by a flat bridge, again awaiting the next thunder of carriages. The house was like a ghost through which you could stick your hand and move your fingers.
Vladimir Nabokov. Mashenka

I realized that I was no longer annoyed by the noise of the night train, I even began to like it. Besides, now I can’t sleep until another midnight train rushes by outside the window.
Alexandra Bulgakova

Passengers do not sleep, but there is silence around,
Outside the window there is the sound of wheels, in the lights of the city.
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Life is like a train, mademoiselle. She's coming. And you know, that's good.
- Why?
- Because trains always arrive at their final destination.
Agatha Christie. Mystery of the Blue Train

Trains, they leave and return again, and I believe that my train, which once left, will definitely return.
Nver Simonyan

Don't leave mothers alone.
They grow old from loneliness.
Among worries, love and books
Don't forget to be kind to them.

To them your tenderness means the whole world.
They value every little bit of you.
Try to imagine for a moment
You are in your youth your own old age.

When there are no letters from children, no meetings.
And your closest friend is the TV.
To take care of my mother in this life, -
Do we really need requests or visas?

There are no borders or seas between you.
All you have to do is get on a tram or train.
Don't leave mothers behind
Take them with you into the future.

Don't be offended by children
Why they didn’t come, didn’t call,
Don't be offended by children
They forgot to give flowers.
They have their own earthly life,
We didn’t know such a pace
Their fast train is rushing
To another life, to another distance.

Know how to let your children go
Don't jump on their express train
Know how to let your children go
They have other interests.
Your own slow-moving crew
Stop for a moment
Let your children fly into life
In the chosen direction.

Accept them as they are
And if you can, help
Take a high-speed train.
Get out of the way on time.
Try with your soul to understand them,
Wave after them at the stop
And don't try to catch up
Getting up early in the morning early.

Love your own children
Don’t hold grudges or grudges,
Love your own children
Treasure a place in their heart.
After all, we are much wiser than them
And every hour of communication is precious,
Don't be offended by children
And give a box of happiness.

To find out the price of a year, ask a student who failed an exam.
To find out the price of a month, ask a mother who gave birth prematurely.
To find out the price of the week, ask the editor of the weekly magazine.
To find out the price of an hour, ask a lover waiting for his beloved.
To find out the price of a minute, ask someone who is late for the train.
To find out the price of a second, ask someone who lost loved one in a car accident.
To find out the value of one thousandth of a second, ask an Olympic silver medalist.
The clock hands will not stop running. Therefore, cherish every moment of your life. And appreciate today as the greatest gift that has been given to you.

To find out the price of a year, ask a student who failed an exam. To find out the price of a month, ask a mother who gave birth prematurely. To find out the price of the week, ask the editor of the weekly magazine. To find out the price of an hour, ask a lover waiting for his beloved. To find out the price of a minute, ask someone who is late for the train. To find out the value of a second, ask someone who has lost a loved one in a car accident. To find out the value of one thousandth of a second, ask an Olympic silver medalist.

Hear your heart...
Sometimes a blind person can see better than a sighted person...
He looks with his heart - that means a lot...
But we don’t see the miracles that surround us...
Empty values ​​narrow our horizons...

We value what is paid for with money,
But what is important is what they prayed for with tears...
We keep jewelry in our boxes,
Without even maintaining respect for each other...

When we're freezing, we dress warmer,
Not realizing that batteries are powerless...
We want to receive and bask... bask... bask...
But our heart does not want to radiate warmth...

We confuse love with an insidious need,
But there is no return for the soul... elementary...
Love is not to take, but to give, because this is happiness!!!
We appreciate the candy wrapper, but the taste of the candy is more important...

Without kindness and compassion for each other,
Our train of life is rushing in a vicious circle...
A deaf person is able to hear what you are silent about...
Hear your heart, believe in God, appreciate life...

Once, while boarding a train, Gandhi dropped a shoe from his foot, which fell onto the railway track. He couldn’t lift it because the train had already started moving. To the amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took off the second shoe and threw it on the sleepers closer to the first. When asked why he did this, Gandhi smiled: “The poor man who finds a shoe on the rails will have a pair to go with it.”

In all countries, railways are used for travel, and in our case, they are also used for theft.

Mikhail Saltykov Shchedrin

A train ticket raises more expectations than a lottery ticket.

Paul Moran

Place some very lowly insignificance in front of the sale of some crappy railway tickets, and this insignificance will immediately consider itself entitled to look at you like Jupiter when you go to get a ticket.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Children and dogs are as essential to the well-being of our country as Wall Street and the railroads.

Harry Truman

A return ticket should cost more: in the end, you may not go, but you need to come back.

Alphonse Allais

Our slogan should be one - to study military affairs in a real way, to introduce order on the railways.

Vladimir Lenin

“The railroad hisses, carries people, and is made of iron and materials.”

Anton Chekhov

About twelve years later I returned to St. Petersburg and learned from Glumov that Polosatov had become a scientist, that he served in three ministries, but not as a draft worker, but as a scientific expert. It was the time of our rebirth, the time of the emergence of joint stock companies and the unprecedented development of railways. Polosatov first of all attracted attention with his essay “The Fertilizing Power of Railways,” in which he very subtly mocked the horse-drawn method of transporting goods and people and proved, like two times two makes four, that with the development of railways capital will receive such a speed of circulation that the interest which until now were obtained from him once, will henceforth be obtained ten, fifteen, twenty times. Everyone then thought it was simple and surprising. Simple, because it really is... It's so simple! It’s surprising, because it’s really strange that no one before Polosatov even thought of thinking about this. To me, when I read Polosatov’s work, it seemed like some kind of Scheherazade. Capital rolls and rolls along the railroad with the speed of lightning, receives interest, then rolls back and again receives interest, rolls again and again...

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

More than two hundred years ago, after another Russian-Swedish war, Finland switched to Russian Empire. At the same time, it turned from a provincial outskirts of Sweden into the Grand Duchy of Finland with the broadest autonomy: with its own laws, its own currency and even its own parliament. We received our own institutions, railways, bank, post office, telegraph... We were a very loyal part of the Russian Empire until the end of the 19th century, until the policy of forced Russification and the fight against dissent began. And when this became possible, after the October coup, the majority of Finns voted for independence...

Matti Anttonen

IN last days I had to make a small and ethereal (I almost said around the world) trip - by rail.

Alphonse Allais

The “engineers”, having become desperate, shout: “The crashes are an accident! Our gangs of criminals always unscrew the nuts!” And look: the sleepers are all rotten, and they forgot to close the semaphore! And hundreds of souls die so absurdly: - Thank you humbly!

Mikhail Savoyarov

In all countries, railways are used for transportation, and in our case, they are also used for theft.

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

If you ask whether it is difficult to rob a train, most respondents will answer: yes. It's not true, nothing is simpler. I caused a lot of trouble for the railroads and sleepless nights for the Pullman company, but my profession as a raider did not bring me any trouble, except for the fact that unscrupulous people, when I dropped off the loot, fleeced me like a stick.

O. Henry

Why, for example, should train stations be located always and exactly near the railway tracks? At the very least, this is not sharply clever, and is it proper for us, the golden francs, to scare away passengers with our dull pedantry? - only Swabians and Prussians can do this. You drive, then the train stops, you get down: you can bet a hundred to one that you will see the station right in front of you again and every time. - What terrible vulgarity! And how can you drive without lively and unexpected turns?

Alphonse Allais

A great many people are working by the sweat of their brow, the network of railways is becoming ever denser, cities are rising into the sky and spreading far and wide, mines are opening, factories are making noise, flames are roaring in foundries, steamships are plowing the ocean, new lands are being populated - and for this Rich owners walk around the active, creative world, everything is subject to them, everything is at their service, self-confident, they force us to believe in them, they gather us, unite us, and involuntarily, without knowing it, we become members of one brotherhood.

H.G. Wells

I thought that the railway is like this: it’s like a street, only below is not earth or stone, but iron, like on a slab, smooth, smooth. And if you fall from the carriage, you will hurt yourself very painfully on the iron. That's why they say not to fly out. And I have never seen the station.

Boris Zhitkov

I saw these abandoned but still surviving fortresses on the railway from Buenos Aires to Mendoza. A group of ranches was surrounded by a thick wall of these living stakes, which, growing, intertwined with each other, interlocking with their curved, rough and thorny branches, and formed an impenetrable wall - a sure defense against the Indians, who usually attack on horseback with long lances in their hands... These original walls cacti can be seen far away on the flat expanse of the steppe and mark the place of habitation.

A.S.Ionin

Look how the railway is destroying the Siberian taiga! The Abakan plant has not yet brought even a penny's worth of benefit to the region, but it has devastated the taiga Palestinians - they will not be resurrected in two hundred years! This can be taken as a rule: if you set up a factory in Siberia or a plant in the dense taiga, then, ten years later, your factory will be among the barren steppe, and perhaps somewhere far away on the horizon the forest edge will remain blue.

Alexander Amfiteatrov

Hollywood is the world's largest toy railroad.

Orson Welles

And why should they touch the opposition? Let her make noise, no one will listen to her anyway. Ours just chuckle to themselves. The power is in their hands - the sea is up to their knees. And now, when so many railways will be built, so many joint stock companies to start, to build so many piers, you just found the time to lash out at me as if I were in the opposition.

Aleko Konstantinov

Chekhov arrived in Perm at two in the morning and waited until six in the evening for the train to Yekaterinburg. The road through the Ural ridge took the whole night. Anton spent three days in Yekaterinburg, deciding how to go further. The railway ended three hundred miles away, in Tyumen. From there it was possible to get to Tomsk either by land - one and a half thousand miles in autumn bad weather and muddy roads - or by steamship down the Tobol and Irtysh...

Donald Rayfield

What to do with new courts, with zemstvo institutions, with railways, banks, etc.? Railways should not be built at all, and banks should not be allowed. Then there would be real palladium. But since the roads have already been built and the banks have been established, nothing can be done about it. There is so much fuss over the railways alone in Rus'! how many Kukuev disasters! They are in a hurry, running, crushing each other, shouting guard, spewing curses... let's go! And suddenly... the locomotive rears up! Towards another... right in the forehead! Fathers! Yes, no way, death! And yet, what reserve of management, intelligence and muscle strength do you need to have in order to direct all this, to see behind everything? And yet you can’t direct anything and can’t see behind anything... How much flour does it take just to get everyone into the cars, and then who should be thrown out of the cars for ignorance, to the police station, and to the magistrate?

Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

While man was in direct interaction with the spirits of nature, while he built his life on a mythological worldview, he could not rise above nature in the act of cognition through natural sciences and technology. You cannot build railways, you cannot install telegraphs and telephones, fearing the demons of nature.

Nikolay Berdyaev

Peter the Great brought us closer to Western Europe, from which we received “railroads,” “telegraphs,” “steamships,” etc. In the field of literature, Russia was a natural consumer of the literary works of Western Europe.

Anatoly Bakhtiarov

Classics of the genre:

In all countries, railways are used for transportation, and in our case, they are also used for theft.

M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

In the fight against her husband, Anna Karenina chose the surest path - the railway.

A train ticket raises even more expectations than a lottery ticket.

In theory, a return ticket should cost more than a return ticket. You don’t have to go “there”, but once you’ve gone, you’ll have to return anyway..

There were no obstacles on the way - the railway turned out to be well traveled.

The philosophy of a late train: “Better late than never!”

When is the next train? - The next train left ten minutes ago.

+ three jokes on the topic

A train left point A to point B along a single-track railway. Another train left at the same time from point B to point A to meet him. And they never met!

Question: - Why?

Answer: - Not fate!

Two old ladies are traveling on a train. We started talking.

Where are you going?

To Ufa.

And I'm from Ufa.

A drunk man stands at the station near a pole with a loudspeaker:

The train to Vorkuta arrives at the third platform.

The man is indignant:

Well, you fool, repeat it.

I repeat...

and a couple of embarrassments with the Nikolaev Railway

On the day the railway opened there was an embarrassment. One tsarist official, wanting to curry favor with his superiors, ordered the rails to be painted white oil paint. Once on a section with freshly painted rails, the wheels began to slip and the train stopped. The “culprits” had to run ahead of the locomotive and sprinkle sand on the rails.

The legend that the emperor personally outlined the route of the future road, drawing a straight line along a ruler between the two capitals. In the middle, the pencil bumped into the reigning finger, and the result was a squiggle in the Bologoe area. No one dared to violate the monarch's will and the road in this place had a strong bend

In fact, the road was originally built completely straight. At the place of the mentioned bend - in the area of ​​the Mstinsky Bridge station - the line was also absolutely straight, which, given the difference in profile at this place, made it difficult for trains driven by low-power locomotives to move. To pass the ascent it was necessary to attach an additional locomotive. In order to overcome the inconvenience by reducing the profile difference, a “bend” was created - the Verebyinsky bypass from the station. Oksochi. Many decades after the need for such a “serpentine” disappeared, the Verebyinsky bypass was dismantled, the Oksochi station was closed, and the line became direct again.

Kompilis Viktor Kudrjavcev