Tovarnaya line

Tovarnaya line Russian: Товарная линия

Main station of Tovarnaya line - "Primorsky Rail Terminal"
Overview
Type Heavy rail
System Commuter cargo and passenger railroad
Status Local
Locale Novaya Derevnya, St. Petersburg, Russia
Termini Primorsky Rail Terminal, Primorsky - goods, from 1924 - Novaya Derevnya
Flugov post, from 1924 - Finlyandsky Rail Terminal
Stations 4
Services Primorsky Rail Terminal - Flugov post, Primorsky - goods - Flugov post, from 1924 - Novaya Derevnya - Finlyandsky Rail Terminal
Operation
Opened 1904
Closed 1929
Technical
Line length 6.8 km (4.23 mi)
Track gauge 1,524 mm (5 ft)  

Tovarnaya line is should connect Primorsky Rail Terminal with city centre of St. Petersburg. It was planned to construct new terminal station between Finlyandsky Rail Terminal and Military Medical Academy.

History

In 1904 the site from Finlyandsky Rail Terminal to Flyugov post rail station has been constructed. The site project has executed in engineer P. A. Avenarius. In May, 1904 this part has been opened.[1]

Сatastrophic flooding of 23 September 1924 has put Primorsky Rail Terminal out of commission and all passengers began to this line. The branch to the Finlyandsky Rail Terminal has soon been constructed in 1925, on a card of 1925[2] and 1927[3] it already is.

By 1926 the line in Sestroretsk has been laid through station Lanskaya.[4] In 1929 capital reconstruction of a line and stations Flyugov post, Serdobolsky stop have been spent has been take apart.[5]

References

  1. ^ Kopaisov, I; Krotkov (1999). "Malaya Oktyabrskaya railroad" (in ru). The encyclopaedia of domestic narrow-gauge railways. http://narrow.parovoz.com/ozerki/. Retrieved 2009-02-17. 
  2. ^ Burochkin, Konstantin (1925). "The plan of Leningrad оn areas" (in ru). Funds of the Russian National Library. The Russian State Academic Printing house. pp. 4. http://www.aroundspb.ru/maps/len1925/len1925.php. Retrieved 2009-02-17. 
  3. ^ "The plan of Leningrad. 1927" (in ru). Funds of the Russian National Library. The state cartographical institute. 1927. pp. 1. http://www.nlr.ru/fonds/maps/20.php. Retrieved 2009-02-17. 
  4. ^ "Years of commissioning of lines Oktyabrskaya railroad (Годы ввода в эксплуатацию линий Октябрьской ж.д.)" (in ru). Statistics (http://ikop.narod.ru/).+15 june 2001. http://ikop.narod.ru/okt_hist.htm. Retrieved 2009-02-17. 
  5. ^ "The plan of Leningrad. 1929" (in ru). Cartographical laboratory Geografo-economic Science Recearch Institute. 1929. http://www.aroundspb.ru/maps/len1939/len1939.php. Retrieved 2009-02-17.