The winning bid was for a four-track rail line, with two tracks allocated for freight, and the other two used by passenger trains.

[7] The vast railroad infrastructure included housing facilities, water towers, smithies, and miscellaneous shops.

[8][7] Station houses — architectural masterpieces built in the typical early-20th-century Russian industrial style[9] — had electricity.

The opening ceremony was attended by the Czar, Royal Dynasty members, and government and city officials.

Between World War I and the October Revolution of 1917, the passenger service was restored, although freight remained the only viable revenue source.

By the late 1920s, other forms of public transportation had emerged and in 1934, passenger service was ended — a year before the introduction of Moscow Metro.

The break from passenger use took almost a century — it took over 80 years of Moscow's growth and development to reintroduce the railroad to its initial role.

Construction work planned for 2013–2016 would convert the Little Ring line of the Moscow Railway for joint passenger and freight use but in 2012, at a meeting with new Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in Odintsovo, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin acknowledged that trains on the circle railway would not be fully ready until 2020.

[10] The required work included: Construction commenced in 2012, and passenger services began in the third quarter of 2016.

[12] The line opened on 10 September 2016 in the presence of President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.

Direct transfers to other lines marked with icon, representing a passenger interchanging under a roof.