Lansky station crossover

Lansky station crossover

Crossover at winter night
Coordinates 59°59′38″N 30°19′38″E / 59.99389°N 30.32722°E / 59.99389; 30.32722Coordinates: 59°59′38″N 30°19′38″E / 59.99389°N 30.32722°E / 59.99389; 30.32722
Carries Railroad
Crosses Serdobolsky street with tram line
Locale Between Lanskaya station platforms, Saint Peterburg Russia
Official name Serdobolsky crossover
Maintained by RZhD, OktZhD, SPbZhD
Characteristics
Design Joist double bridge on metal tubular support and stone coastal foundations
Material Metal
Total length 30 m
Width 2 + 1 track way
Longest span 10 m
Number of spans 3
History
Designer Finnish Railways
Construction end 1869
Opened before 1910
RZhD, OktZhD, SPbZhD, Russia
Engineering objects of Lanskaya railway station
Legend
Up arrow To Udelnaya 1869
Left arrow To N. Derevnya 1926
line SPb-Sestr.-Beloostrov 1926
5.9 1926
Lanskoye shosse
5.5 Lansky station crossover 1869
5.3 Lanskaya substation 1950
Serdobolskaya st.
5.1 Lansky station cr. 1869
5.0 Change of kilometrage
4.9 Lanskaya 1869
road B. Sampsonievsky pr.
road Institutsky pr.
4.6 Four bridges on three support 1869
Right arrow To Kushelevka
0 Finlyandsky Rail Term.
line SPb-Sestr.-Beloostrov

Lansky station crossover is a railway bridge across Serdobolskaya street. On either side of it, on high embankments, there are the station platforms of Lansky railway station. The bridge was opened in 1869[1] and the first train proceeded through it on July 3 [O.S. June 22] 1869.[2] The bridge was expanded in 1926.

Station access

The platform of Lanskaya station, from the Saint Petersburg direction, is located on the embankment. Access to it is obtained from under the bridge.

Memoirs

The bridge is mentioned in the memoir "March of 1917" by the novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.[3]

References

  1. Koreshonkov, Oleg (April 28, 2006). "Railways of Karelian isthmus (Железные дороги Карельского перешейка)" (in Russian). Retrieved 15 February 2009.
  2. The illustrated newspaper (in Russian) (# 32): 97. 1869 http://www.geocaching.su/?pn=101&cid=3511. Retrieved 14 February 2009. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. "188 Defense samokatchikov on Serdobolsky (Оборона самокатчиков на Сердобольской )". March 1917. http://solzhenicyn.ru/. Retrieved 18 February 2009. External link in |publisher= (help)


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