Tovarnaya line

Tovarnaya line was designed to connect Primorsky Rail Terminal with the city centre of Saint Petersburg. It was planned to construct a new terminal station between Finlyandsky Rail Terminal and the Military Medical Academy.

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)
Route map 6.8 Finlyandsky Rail Terminal Saint Petersburg Trackside 1869 Finlyandsky - Goods 5.1 Traction Depot 5.2 Locomotive Depot 5.2 Baburin post 4.0 Lesnoy crossover Lesnoy prospect 3.6 A. Matrosov crossover A. Matr. st. Trackside 1924-1929 3.1 Bolshoy Sampsonievsky pr. Flugov post 1924-1934 3.1 Kantemirovsky cr. Kant. 3.0 Flugov post 1904-1929 Kushelevka line SPb-Sestr.-Beloostrov Sestroretsk Beloostrov Lanskaya Trackside 1904-1929 1.6 Serdobolsky stop 1904-1929 Trackside 1904-1929 Serdobolskaya street Lanskoye shosse line SPb-Sestr.-Beloostrov Finlyandsky Rail Terminal Flugov post 1924-1934 Lanskaya Trackside 1904 1.0 Kolomyazsky prospect Kolomyagi Skatchki line SPb-Sestr.-Beloostrov Sestroretsk Beloostrov Novaya Derevnya Trackside 1823-1924 0.6 Kolomyajskу bridge Chyornaya Rechka Primorsky - Goods 1904-1924 0.0 Primorsky Rail Terminal 1823-1924 To Summer Garden (Neva) Distances in kilometers Railway line consists of single-track line tracksides

History

Line in 1916: Primorsky Rail Terminal - Flugov post

In 1904, the line from Finlyandsky Rail Terminal to Flyugov post rail station was constructed. The engineer was P. A. Avenarius. In May 1904, this part was opened.[1]

Catastrophic flooding on 23 September 1924 put the Primorsky Rail Terminal out of commission and all passengers were re-routed to the Finlyandsky Rail Terminal in 1925.[2][3]

By 1926, the line to Sestroretsk had been laid through Lanskaya station.[4] In 1929, the line was reconstructed. The stations Flyugov post and Serdobolsky stop were no longer required and they were dismantled. [5]

References

1. Kopaisov, I; Krotkov (1999). "Malaya Oktyabrskaya railroad" (in Russian). The encyclopaedia of domestic narrow-gauge railways. Archived from the original on 2012-07-20. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
2. Burochkin, Konstantin (1925). "The plan of Leningrad on areas". Funds of the Russian National Library (in Russian). The Russian State Academic Printing house. p. 4. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
3. "The plan of Leningrad. 1927". Funds of the Russian National Library (in Russian). The state cartographical institute. 1927. p. 1. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
4. "Years of commissioning of lines Oktyabrskaya railroad (Годы ввода в эксплуатацию линий Октябрьской ж.д.)". Statistics (in Russian). ikop.narod.ru. 15 June 2001. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
5. "The plan of Leningrad. 1929" (in Russian). Cartographical laboratory Geografo-economic Science Recearch Institute. 1929. Retrieved 2009-02-17.