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Aeroexpress

Aeroekspress
Аэроэкспресс Logo Aeroexpress.jpg
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ED4MKM-AERO-0001 EMU for Aeroexpress company. Exhibition at Rizhsky Stn.
Locale Russia
Dates of operation 2005–current
Track gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 2732 in)
Headquarters Moscow
Website http://aeroexpress.ru/en/

Aeroexpress Ltd. (Russian: ОАО "Аэроэкспресс") is the operator of air rail link services in Russia. It is founded in 2005 and is owned by Russian Railways (50%), TransGroup AS (25%), Iskander Makhmudov (17.5%), and Andrei Bokarev (7.5%). Until recently, the company only provided the rail transportation services between Moscow rail terminals and Moscow airports (Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo). The company previously also provided the rail link services to Kazan's Kazan International Airport, Sochi's Adler Airport, Vladivostok's Knevichi Airport.

In 2012, Aeroexpress transported 17.4 million passengers.

The first rail link connected Moscow and Sheremetyevo Airport in December 2005. In May 2008 Aeroexpress began to provide the rail link between Moscow and Vnukovo Airport (the line opened in August 2005). In July 2008 the company became the sole operator of rail links from Savyolovsky Rail Terminal (Butyrskaya Vokzal) and Belorussky Rail Terminal to Sheremetyevo airport and Lobnya, from Paveletsky Rail Terminal to Domodedovo airport and from Kiyevsky Rail Terminal to Vnukovo airport.


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