Shunter, CMZ3-1498 takes a pause from it station pilot duties

to allow passengers to cross the running lines to access the southern end of Moscow Belorussky station; could you imagine this at Paddington or Victoria? Whilst the tracks on Russian railways were extensively fenced there were many official and unofficial crossing points for pedestrians who cross, as here, with impunity. In addition, there was very little graffiti along the sides of the tracks, something that is at absolute epidemic proportions in the UK with every piece of trackside equipment or wall daubed with ghastly paint.