On June 4th, 1959, the Beijing-Ulaanbaatar-Moscow international passenger train officially started, and the number of trains was determined to be 3/4. Soviet railways provided vehicles and served as crew members. After leaving Beijing Station, the train runs on Fengsha and Beijing-Baotou lines, and the bogie of the train is replaced at Jining Station. On May 24th, 1960, the Beijing-Ulaanbaatar-Moscow international passenger train, which was provided by China Railway and served as the crew, started and the train served by Soviet Railway stopped. On May 3 1 of the same year, the first international intermodal bus undertaken by the Chinese side arrived at the platform of Moscow yaroslavl Railway Station, and was greeted by people from all walks of life in the Soviet Union, headed by Minister of Communications Masvechev. At the beginning, China mainly learned from the experience of the Soviet Union and copied each other's operating procedures and scheduling systems. In the early years, most people who took this train were government officials, delegations and even senior cadres at or above the provincial and ministerial levels on business. The vehicle is guarded by public security personnel when it is overhauled in the garage. Therefore, many people call this train "the mysterious oriental train".
Although China and the Soviet Union were at war in the 1960s and 1980s, three trains still didn't stop, but there were many conflicts between them, such as the Soviet Union's detention of China's diplomats in the Soviet Union. On September 7th, 1963, the No.3 train manned by Beijing Railway Bureau was unreasonably inspected by Soviet border guards and customs officers at the Naush base station in the Soviet Union. On the 8th, all China train attendants and passengers were deported. After the incident, the Ministry of Railways of China called the Ministry of Communications of the Soviet Union three times and asked the other party to take measures to ensure that similar incidents would not happen again. On June 6th, 65438, Zhou Enlai, Prime Minister of the State Council, China, and Chen Yi, Foreign Minister, met all the train attendants in the Great Hall of the People and condemned the unreasonable behavior of the Soviet side. 19651June 12, the wide gauge of Ji 'er Railway was changed from 1524 mm to 1435 mm standard gauge, and the train changing and wheel changing was changed from Jining Station to Erlian Station. During the bad relationship between China and the Soviet Union, train attendants were asked not to chat with foreign passengers without authorization, and passengers were not allowed to get off the train and take pictures as a souvenir when the train arrived at overseas stations. The train attendants in China are also afraid of making political mistakes and are afraid to take photos with the passengers. They can't take newspapers and periodicals other than People's Daily when they leave the country.
/kloc-After the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, with the rapid development of Sino-Russian relations and the rise of border trade fever, people traveling to and from the two countries for business gradually became the main passengers of this train, especially in the early 1990s, most of the passengers were businessmen selling international goods, and the bus became a "truck". On June 5438+ 10, 2000, China Railway realized the third large-scale speed increase, so the number of trains in China was changed to K3/4 express train.
After 2000, the passenger composition of K3/4 train has also changed greatly. Now the tourists from Moscow to Beijing are mainly western tourists, in order to enjoy the scenery along the way. In the peak season, it is often full and it is hard to get a ticket.