BBC News School Report @ LCS

For the last decade, 14 year old Karina and her grandmother Natalia, have been making a long excursion to get to school in the remote Poyakonda locality.

A key railway route in northwester Russia introduced a stop to serve just these 2 passengers.

Trains on this route previously only stopped in Poyakonda as a technicality to pick up and drop off railway staff, and so the Kozlova have had no choice but to travel at the same time as them, or else risk Karina missing school.

Gudok says that for many years, the Kozlovas have been commuting for three hours a day. They catch a train at 7:30am every morning and get the train home at 7:10pm

Every morning, she waited for the children by the village kiosk, then we walked 1km (0.6 miles) to the Poyakonda station, Ms Kozlova tells Gudok.

The introduction to the saint Petersburg-Murmansk means that she doesn’t need to wait until the end of the day to go home.