The number of passengers who came to Crimea by train increased by 3%

The number of train passengers transported to the Crimean Peninsula in 2025 increased by 3% compared to 2024, Grand Service Express told reporters.

Passenger traffic on Tavria trains increased by 3% compared to 2024the message says.

In total, it is planned to transport almost 6 million passengers in 2025; 5.88 million tickets have now been sold. The most popular route this year was the route Moscow — Simferopol — Moscow (19% of all trips), in second and third places: Adler — Simferopol — Adler and Krasnodar — Simferopol — Krasnodar. Also this year, the company’s own carriage fleet increased by 96 new cars — up to 734, of which more than a third were built in 2023-2025.

During the New Year holidays from December 25 to January 11, the Grand Service Express company plans to transport 305 thousand passengers on Tavria trains, which is 5% more than in the same period last year. In just six years since the restoration of railway communication with the Crimean Peninsula, Tavria trains have carried 23.6 million passengers.

Six years ago, on December 25, 2019, train No. 28 arrived in Simferopol across the Crimean Bridge, connecting the capital of Russia with the capital of the Republic of Crimea by rail.

JSC TC «Grand Service Express» is the only carrier that, since 2019, has been delivering passengers to Crimea by rail (Tavria trains), as well as the creator of the project — the train-hotel on wheels «Grand Express», running daily from Moscow to St. Petersburg and back. Tavria trains run all year round from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Simferopol and Sevastopol, as well as from Omsk, Perm and Kislovodsk to Simferopol. In total, in 2024, GSE trains carried 5.85 million passengers.

source: TASS

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