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Tsarskoselskaya Railway
Tsarskoselskaya Railway
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City Services/Transportation/Railway Stations, Railway Transport
TSARSKOSELSKAYA RAILWAY is the first Russian railway (until 1851 - the only in the country, the 6th in the world), running between St. Petersburg and Tsarskoe Selo. Its construction started on 1 May 1836 (according to the project of Austrian engineer F.A. Gerstner), and opened on October 30,1837. That day a train covered 23 km from St. Petersburg to Tsarskoe Selo in 35 min. Initially trains were drawn by horses and only on Sundays by steam engines. Starting on 4 April 1838, only steam engines were used on the Railway. The stretch from St. Petersburg to Pavlovsk (27 km) was opened on 22 May 1838. Initially, the railway served mainly for entertaining purposes. In 1837-38 there were from 500 to 1,000 passengers departing from St. Petersburg station daily. Six foreign-made locomotive engines (Provorny, Bogatyr, and others) operated on the line. Today the former Tsarskoselskaya Railway is the main spur of St. Petersburg-Vitebsk section of Oktyabrskaya Railway. Reference: Богданов И. А. Витебский вокзал и Царскосельская железная дорога // Новый журн. 2002. № 2. С.157-192; От Царскосельской до Октябрьской: История. Развитие. Перспективы. СПб., 2003. I. A. Bogdanov.
Persons
Gerstner Franz Anton von
Bibliographies
От Царскосельской до Октябрьской: История. Развитие. Перспективы. СПб., 2003
Богданов И. А. Витебский вокзал и Царскосельская железная дорога // Новый журн., 2002
The subject Index
Oktyabrskaya Railway
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The second track of the Tsarskoye Selo Railway was put in
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Source: Tsarskoe Selo
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Oktyabrskaya Railway
OKTYABRSKAYA RAILWAY runs across Leningrad, Vologda, Moscow, Murmansk, Novgorod, Pskov, and Tver Regions and the Republic of Karelia. The total length of the network is 10.4 thousand km. The company office is located in St
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Pushkinsky District
PUSHKINSKY DISTRICT, an administrative and territorial unit of St. Petersburg (with the territorial administration situated in the town of Pushkin, at 24 Oktyabrsky Boulevard)
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Rail Transport Museum
RAIL TRANSPORT MUSEUM, Central Rail Transport Museum of the Railway Ministry of the Russian Federation (50 Sadovaya Street), Russia's first technology history museum and one of the world's oldest rail transport museums
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Railway Stations (entry)
RAILWAY STATIONS (Russian 'vokzal', from English 'vauxhall', after the name of J. Vaux, owner of an amusement hall near London in the 18th century). In Russian the word 'vokzal' traditionally refers to the terminal station of the first Russian
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The Tsar Railway Station
The Emperor Own Railway branch line and a wooden railway station pavilion, intended for supplying an imperial residence in the Alexander Palace, was constructed in 1895 for safeguarding Emperor Nicholas II
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Source: Tsarskoe Selo
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Vitebsky Railway Station
VITEBSKY RAILWAY STATION (formerly St. Petersburg, Tsarskoselsky, Moskovsko-Vindavo-Rybinsky Line, and Detskoselsky Railway Station) (52 Zagorodny Ave). The wooden building of Tsarskoselskaya Railway Station was constructed in August-September 1837
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