Vykhodnoj – Lawna railway line
The Vykhodnoj – Lawna railway is a branch of the Murman Railway that is currently under construction .
Geographical location
The new line is to branch off the Murman Railway in Vychodnoj, a few kilometers south of Kola , then cross the Tuloma River on a nearly 1,600-meter-long bridge and continue north to Lawna.
Technical parameters
The line will be built with a gauge of 1520 millimeters and will be 46 kilometers long and end in a deep-water port to be built on the ice-free Kola Bay in Lawna. Here, coal should preferably be reloaded onto ships that are transported here by rail from the Kuznetsk Basin . Kola Bay provides the closest inland, ice-free sea access for cargo from the Kuznetsk Basin. The costs amount to 320 million euros and are partly provided by public and partly private funds. The Swiss investment company Mercuria is the largest private donor .
history
On June 19, 2020, due to a bridge collapse on the Murman Railway, a section under construction between Vykhodnoj and the Murmashi port, southwest of Murmansk, was opened early as a diversion route for freight traffic.
future
The target is an annual transport volume of 18 million tons and commissioning of the railway line in 2020.
literature
- jst: New railway line near Murmansk . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 5/2019, p. 262.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c jst: New railway line
- ↑ Russia: Murmansk port can be reached again by train. Locomotive report , June 23, 2020, accessed on June 24, 2020 .