Talk:Elektrichka

message: Dear ding, first of all let me thank you for the improvement of my article (namely its English). However, I allowed myself to revert some of your edits which I found incorrect. Still, I need further help with some of these to keep their sense. Best wishes, AlexPU 19:07, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks 

message: Hi Latvian guys and girls. I guess we need a little help from you for the Elektrichka article. Do you still have that train-building company in Riga? (cause I couldn't find it through LT articles in WP). Can anybody supply me with a link to that company's web page? Thanks in advance, Ukrained 21:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
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message: You, guys should make strong accent on the fact that term isnt either proper noun nor trade mark. Its nothing more than slang shotrcut and it should stay to be it, and shouldnt be misused when referred to by other articles (Transportation section of "Elektrostal" article is an example of bad use). They could make it like: "blah connected to blah by wide network of suburb railroad thains widely known in Russia as %subject_of_this_article%". Would sound alot better.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.51.96.123 (talk) 23:24, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Point of the whole article 

message: The following moved from User talk:Ukrained:
:A couple of questions. Are you sure that Luhansk Oblast is the only not electrified rail in UA? I remember from a while ago, that in the West of Ukraine all the suburban transit was on diesel trains and not Elektrichkas for the very reason of the lack of electrification. Of course things might have changed such that I missed the news.
::I just added the info from Monday's TV newscast reporting the opening of (Alhevs'k?)-Debaltseve elektrichka line. They said Luhanschyna has been the only region which had no elektrickhas at all until now (that's what I meant), and that electrification is going rapidly. I can't remember the channel. If you find the issue controversial (which is not), I could look for references. But it is definitely not a priority (remember what Sasha said).
:Another question is about rapid trains. You wrote about Rivne line. I also know about the rapid Kharkiv-Kiev train. How many are there? Also, are you sure this info belongs to Elektrichka rather than Ukrainian Railways article. I just don't know whether it is correct to say that these rapid intercity trains are electrichka's legacy, since the latter has always been perceived as suburban rail transit. I don't know the answers, just some thoughts here. --Irpen 02:35, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, no. It is about elektrichka Kyiv-Rivne, namely the електропоїзд підвищеного комфорту, departing from the elektrichka platforms of Kyiv-Pass., and looking exactly like a modernized elektrichka. There also Kyiv-Chernihiv and Kyiv-Kmelnytskyi to the best of my knowledge. Rapid Kharkiv-Kyiv is a Stolychnyi Expres consisting of conventional passenger cars, hauled by a loco. There is also a Kyiv-Dnipropetrovsk "Expres" - which has a auto-transferring car in addition. Ukrained 10:45, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Elektrichka#Elektrichka in Ukraine|Elektrichka in Ukraine]]

message: It is possible to travel for free when on the stop one exits the cart where fares are being collected and goes to one where fares have already been collected.
:Is it legal to do this? If not, what is the penalty? I would hate to think that someone might get thrown in prison for using an idea that came from Wikipedia to shave off a couple of cents from an already cheap fare. 66.234.222.96 (talk) 05:34, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: At worst, one would have to pay the fare if caught (though it never happens in practice). Those who refuse to pay are just forced out of the train on the next stop anyway, there is no other penalty, so it is perfectly reasonable for them to perform this trick. Actually, fare collectors are routinely bribed for about a half of the price of a ticket (but it is obviously impractical if one travels far enough to meet another team of collectors). Well, at least as of 2006 in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast. Colchicum (talk) 10:13, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Official fare is about $2 (50 roubles).--Dojarca (talk) 17:49, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: + the price of the ticket, which is more expensive. Colchicum (talk) 20:12, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fare evasion encouraged? 

message: This should be merged to EMU article (seperate section)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bloodless (talk • contribs) 15:41, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this should be merged with EMU. Mikus (talk) 00:05, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I see no need to move as long as we limit the technical details in the article to internal links. In my view, the article should reflect social-economic and cultural aspects first as they are very similar across the former Soviet Union. Happy edits, Ukrained (talk) 09:04, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: I've cleaned this supposedly correct stuff off the article as irrelevant or redundant:
"In the Moscow area "Sputnik" trains were introduced for express urban lines, with the technical foundation of an ER-2 but intended for a more working-class ridership."
"The flatcars are used by local hobos for free transportation. Abandoned rail tracks are sometimes used by the local population as roads. They use pionerkas (, a diminutive form of "pioneer"): a homemade draisine powered by a motorcycle engine."
"In remote regions of Russia with no electrified railroads, elektrichkas and dizels are replaced by short trains of one or two passenger cars and one or two flatcars hauled by diesel locomotives. These are known as bichevoz , "hobo train")."
By the way, colloquial social slur word бич (Б.И.Ч. to be exact) doesn't translate as "hobo", which is "homeless" as far as I know. Happy edits, Ukrained (talk) 09:04, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Preserving hardly-relevant information

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message: I found it less foucused on Russian commuter rail systems in English Wikipedia, who can write some of these columns about these Russian systems?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Simon YifanLing SFLS Shanghai (talk • contribs) 09:22, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
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