RUSSIAN TRAINS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16905, 2 December 1922, Page 20

RUSSIAN TRAINS.

A LONG RAILWAY JOURNEY FROM VLADIVOSTOK TO MOSCOW. Ouce each week it is now possible i<* take a train, from Vladivostock to Moscow, and to make the trip in safety <ad comparative comfort, writes the Harbin correspondent of the “" Chrislion Science Monitor.” AYhar is better m to take the Chinese Eastern at Martin.. coming here by way of Dairen, thereby obviating the passport and * t try troubles at Vladivostok. And then the eccommodations are better on 'he trains and boats that bring tlie travellers by way of the Dairen gateway. f rom Harbin to Moscow, the cost of a ticket (first-class) is in round figures IEO dollars. "Without sacrificing comfort in the -lightest, sixteen dollars can be saved by travelling second-class from Harbin to Chita. There is only the difference in being in the other tli*d of the same sleeping car. Beyond fTiit-o it is advisable to travel firstclass. There* is a slight difference in the i-ast. ami the difference between fist and aecond-elaes is wider. The price of 160 dollars includes sleeper all the way. Rent of bedding will cost something, .-it the rate of charges on the Chinese Eastern, by the time Moscow i« reached. .about fifteen dollars will have been expended for the use of sheets and blankets. Jt will be better and safer for the traveller to carry bedding, even though there has to be paid a carrying cnarge on it. The quantity and quality in the bedding supplied on the sleeping cars leave much to Ik* desired. FOOD PLENTIFUL. Restaurant cars make the entire trip, and the price ot meals in reason >i*le. At Un» time ol tile veal looii is •hiindant ail the wav over which the 'liam goes, but. lor safety's sake, food >houkl he’earned. 'lucre must lie a qualification of the word abundant. It means that the trains carry a plentiful supply tor their passengers. \\ ith the onung of winter there will be a leti<Srn m quantity, and then travellers ■*-il» have to depend more on their own baggage is charged for. There is no such thing as a irec allowance. Ever.vti'ii.g is v. cig.K-.i. and, from Alau- * miFia. s atiou. where the Chinese Eastein cnOs it. i ill Russian-controlled j iit of the trans-Siberian system begins. to Uomow, each pood ot baggage nnifei. • paid tor at the rate ot < .oO colors, a pood being 3o pounds. \Y.rh food, nodding and the regular c a pediment a of travel, not less tiiuu i'.roe poods must be carried, and at bat ih • touri-t would Ik* travelling i,. hr. ‘ muting everything. ticket, luotl ci irges and ihe high cost ■*l vises. then* is o trip it> length tliat fn she made for as little money. Not uuting what it will cost to eat. the ip can be made tor an average of :§tout twelve dollars a day, including fchr< <• ppod- oi baggage, fare and sleeper. i The train to Moscow leaves Manchuria -ration each Wednesday. The u hedule i> 12 days from that station io Mc. ion . hut it should occasion no •jhrprisc if n takes fourteen days. The jfardiiial habit oi slowness in the Rtis-k.-in character finds its fullest expres sw*n in the operation of its trains, even iiuder the most, favourable circumstances, and the traveller to whom a l w da>s more makes a. difference had » ot better make the trip over the lung distance from acre to .Moscow. DELAYS FOR VISES. ‘loniing properly vouched for, 1 : . ~ • ..u <•■■■ ill.ole loi vis in iiarbin or at Chita. Otherit is better to pass through stopping long enough to obtain ’.he needed credentials from the ropre‘cinative of Soviet. in that city. I.ln.*u there must be two days given to vss«* gelling here in Harbin, as the -fin iai who slumps documents so that <?j*try may be had into t lk* Far Eastern republic is located here. Following ! * lead of the United States, it costs ]bout ten dollars to get a vis**. ,n the dyi Eastern Republic, and no less for V>viet Russia. TVi li patience and a realisafion that is slowly being evolved out of -teaos. the mar, or woman who has no f/iFirfiai end o serve ran make the l* r a< r - Siberia, passing north u ill** fan.in licit, througli to Moscow v ith no .-enous difficulty. In another year ai the present, rate of progress there will neither adventure nor • I i.' *• _ iie-s in in* v • »ya<::<■. Notv there f;- an atmosphere of hazard about it Hint makes ii attra*live to those vh** io\ .* the unit ual.

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