Electrification of Saint Petersburg Railway Division

RZhD, OktZhD, SPbZhD, Russia Saint Petersburg Finlyandsky - Beloostrov through Sestroretsk Legend Vyborg Zelenogorsk Solnechnoye line Sestroretsk spur line (1871-1873) line Miller's line (1873-1886) To Sestroretsk 42.7 43.0 Beloostrov Pesochny Lanskaya Finlyandsky Rail Term. 42.9 Novoye shosseBeloostrov 39.6 Sestra crossoverSestra line Sestroretsk spur line (1871-1873) line Miller's line (1873-1886) 39.4 Beloostrov (1871-1886) 39.1 Sestroretsk (1871-1886, 1916-1924) line Sestroretsk spur line (1871-1873) line Miller's line (1873-1886) line Zavodskaya line (1916-1924) 39.3 Old line of road M-10Sestr. Saint Petersburg Vyborg 34.4 Dyuny crossoverM10 Line Sestroretsk line Primorskaya railway Dyuny Shkolnaya 38.1 Zavodskaya sestra cr.Z. s. 37.7 Kurort 36.4 Sestroretsky Kyrort Miller's pier 36.3 LineMiller's line (1873-1886) 36.2 Sestroretsk 36.1 Yermolovsky prospectSestroretsk 35.7 Sestroretsk armory 35.2 Voskov streetSestroretsk Line Dubki horse-iron road (1847-bf 1870) Sestroretsk armory (1847-bf 1870) Dubkovsky pier 35.1 Sestroretsk railway station 34.7 Liteyny bridgeVodoslivnoy channel Vyborg Saint Petersburg 34.4 Sestroretsky crossoverM10 highway 33.3 Razliv 31.5 Tarkhovka 18.1 Tarkhovskaya streetTarkhovka 30.1 Alexandrovskaya 29.0 Gorskaya 28.9 Gorskaya crossoverKAD 28.3 Exportgoods for Spb Dam To Kronshtadt before 1928 28.3 Lisy Nos, before 1928 25.3 Lisy Nos 21.8 Morskaya 1.5 2.3North-West Thermal Power Plant 18.2 Olgino 18.1 Konnolakhtinsky prospectOlgino 17.1 Lakhta 17.1 Granichnaya streetLakhta 15.5 Lakhtinsky crossoverLakhtyinsky r. 13.0 Yakhtennaya 12.6 Planerny crossoverPlanernaya st. KirovskayaSmall October railway Sub Staraya DerevnyaLine 4 10,4 Staraya Derevnya 10.3 Torfyanaya doroga 9.4 Serebryakov pereulok 8.5 Akademik Shimansky street 8.3 Chyornaya rechka cr.Chernaya R. Severny factory 7.7 Novaya Derevnya Objects 1893 line Ozerki line Ozerki Kolomuagi Skachki line Tovarnaya line Primorsky - goods Primorsky Rail Terminal 7.5 7.5 Kolomyazsky prospect 7.4 line Tovarnaya line Serdobolsky stop Finlyandsky Rail Terminal 7.2 Omskaya street Vyborg Beloostrov Udelnaya 5.0 Lanskaya St Engineering objects To Kushelevka 4.2 Zemledenchesky crossoverZemledench. 4.0 1st Murinsky crossover1st Murinsky To Kushelevka line Tovarnaya line Primorsky - goods Primorsky Rail Terminal Serdobolsky stop 3.0 Flyugov post 1924-1931 line Tovarnaya line Finlyandsky Rail Terminal Baburin post 3.5 Kantemirovsky crossoverKantem. line Tovarnaya line Primorsky Rail Terminal Flyugov post 3.2 3.1 A. Matrosov crossoverA. Matr. st. 2.7 Lesnoy crossoverLesnoy prospect 1.7 Traction Depot 1.6 Locomotive Depot 1.6 Locomotivnoye Depot Finlyandsky - Goods Sub Ploshchad LeninaLine 1 0.0 Finlyandsky Rail TerminalSaint Petersburg Distances in kilometers

Electrification of Saint Petersburg Railway Division. Direct lines from Saint Petersburg Finlyandsky-Vyborg and Saint Petersburg Finlyandsky-Beloostrov through Sestroretsk continued to work with steam haulage after the Russian Revolution up to World War II.

First project

In 1930, the first project for electrification of a railroad line of seashore-Beloostrov rings was developed. But the state boundary was in the Urban-type settlement Beloostrov, and the authorities did not improve the transport accessibility area. They rightly believed that the availability of suburban passenger electric trains would increase the number of summer residents in direction of traffic.^[1]

Implementation

Without waiting for the end of the war, the chief of department of electrification of the October Railway Kirillov made an application for electrification of the seashore-Beloostrov rings and directions to station Terioki addressed to the Leningrad city town committee VKP managing transport department. After the war, the state border was pushed to a distance of more than 100 kilometers (over Vyborg) and the electrification program was not hampered.^[1]

Documents

Documents were issued on the basis of which the electrification of the Leningrad – Zelenogorsk line was authorized:^[1]

• Decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 858-316, dated 4 March 1950;
• The order of the Minister of Communications Beschev B. P. No. 176/Ц dated 17 May 1950;
• The final draft prepared by the Institute Lengiprotrans, engineers Keltuyala and Mazursky.

Timeline of electrification

• Finlyandsky Rail Terminal–Zelenogorsk – 1951
• Zelenogorsk–Ushkovo – 1952
• Ushkovo–Roshchino – 1954
• Roshchino–Kirillovskoye – 1968
• Kirillovskoye–Vyborg – 1969
• Vyborg–Luzhayka – 1977
• International connection – 1978

Picture gallery

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  Electric locomotive with "Sibelius" train (Saint-Petersburg, Russia - Helsinki, Finland) in 2007

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  Train under the name NEVA at the Finlyandsky Rail Terminal, Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2009

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  Train under the name Change at the Finlyandsky Rail Terminal, Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2009

See also

• History of rail transport in Russia
• Miller's line
• Rail transport in the Soviet Union
• Railway electrification in the Soviet Union
• Riihimäki – Saint Petersburg Railway

References

Electrification of Saint Petersburg Railway Division General Electrification of Saint Petersburg Railway Division Names of electric trains of St. Petersburg Depot TCH-20 TCH-10 Electric substation of Finlyandsky Rail Terminal directons Build in 1950s Lanskaya Dune

Railway lines seaside direction (Saint Petersburg - Sestroretsk) The organisations (operators of one line) Dubki horse-iron road 1843 - before 1871 Sestroretsk spur line 1871 - 1873 Miller's line 1873 - 1886 Zavodskaya line 1916 - 1920s Primorskaya Railway Ozerki line 18-- - 19-- Primorskaya line 18-- - 19-- Tovarnaya line 18-- - 1936 Oktyabrskaya Railway Sestroretsk line 1936 - today Malaya Oktyabrskaya Railway 1948 - 2008

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