Small Moscow railway ring

Small Moscow Railway Ring (Moscow Central Ring)
Route length:	54.0 km
Gauge :	1520 mm ( Russian gauge )
Power system :	3000 V  =
Legend 53.7 Lichobory 53.989 0.0 Leningrad Railway Station – Saint Petersburg line 1.0 Okruzhnaya (Okruzhnaya) 1.2 Line Zavyolovo Railway Station - Zavyolovo 2.4 Vladykino [Vladykino-Moskovskoye] (Wladykino) 3.8 Lichoborka 4.9 Jausa 5.3 Botanichesky Sad (Botanichesky Sad) 6.5 Rostokino 7.1 Rostokino 7.4 Yaroslavl station – Yaroslavl line 9.7 Belokamennaja 12.3 Bulwar Rokossovskovo (Bulwar Rokossowskowo) 13.9 Locomotive [Cherkisovo] (Cherkisovskaya) 15.5 Izmailovo (Partisanskaya) 17.6 Sokolinaja Gora 18.6 Lefortovo 19.0 Shot Entusiastov (Schosse Entusiastow) 20.3 Route Kazan station - Kazan 20.5 Andronovka Sewerny Post 21.2 Andronowka (Park A and B) 22.1 Route Kursk station - Nizhny Novgorod 22.3 Nizhegorodskaya Novoproletarskaya 23.4 Novochochlovskaya 23.6 Route Kursk station - Kursk Yuzhny Port Boinja 24.8 Ugreshskaya 25.5 Ugreshskaya 26.2 Dubrovka   (Dubrowka) Simonowo | Lisino 27.4 Avtozavodskaya (Avtosavodskaya) 27.9 Koschuchowo 28.8 SIL 30.2 Moskva (Danilov Bridge) 30.9 Verkhnie Kotly (Nagatinskaya) 31.0 Route Paveletskaya Station -Pawelez 31.7 Krymskaya 33.4 Kanachikovo 33.9 34.0 Ploshchad Gagarina (Leninsky Prospect) 34.8 35.0 Moskva (Andrew's Bridge) 36.1 Vorobyovy Gory 36.3 Luzhniki (Sportivnaya) 37.5 Moskva (Luzhniki Bridge) 37.9 Potylicha 38.5 Distance Kiev station - Kiev 38.6 Presnya (Kutuzovo Park) 39.0 Kutuzovskaya (Kutuzovskaya) 39.3 Metro line 4 39.5 Moskva River (Dorogomilovo Bridge) 39.9 Delowoi centr (Meschdunarodnaja) 40.3 Route Belarusian railway station - Smolensk 41.0 Shelepichah (Shelepicha) 42.2 Presnya Oktyabrsky Kasarmy 43.6 Chorozhovo (Poleschajewskaja) (Chorozhovskaya) 44.8 Concern 46.1 Panfilovskaya (Oktyabrskoje Pole) 46.5 Serebryany Bor 47.9 Streschnewo 48.0 Route Riga Station - Riga 49.5 Baltiyskaya [Lichobory (Park Bratzewo)] (Woikovskaya) 51.6 Koptewo 52.4 Lichobory
Remarks: Designations of the stations located there (freight traffic operating points) that differ from the names of the central ring stops in [square brackets] Colored number symbols in the right column indicate transition options to the corresponding lines of the Moscow Metro (according to the official metro plan; the transition routes are sometimes up to several hundred meters)

The Small Moscow Railway Ring ( Russian Малое кольцо Московской железной дороги , Maloje kolzo Moskowskoi schelesnoi dorogi, literally "Small Ring of the Moscow Railway") is a 54-kilometer circular line in Moscow , Russia . It belongs to the Moscow Regional Directorate of the Russian State Railways and was only used for freight traffic for many years . From 2012 to 2016 the line was fully electrified and expanded. On September 10, 2016, a S-Bahn-like passenger service began under the name Moscow Central Ring (Russian Московское центральное кольцо , Moskowskoje Zentralnoje kolzo ).

From 1917 to 1960 the ring formed roughly the administrative border of the city of Moscow until it was extended to the ring road (MKAD).

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Western section of the ring; At the back left you can see the Moscow City office towers under construction

Freight train with TE3 locomotive on the Ring (1982)

The route is a completely closed railway ring, which runs exclusively in the urban area of ​​Moscow, with the exception of the western section, however, far outside the city center. The name "Small Railway Ring" is intended to distinguish the line from another ring line in the greater Moscow area, namely the so-called Large Moscow Railway Ring , which bypasses the city far outside of this in the area of Moscow Oblast . From the beginning, the ring was designed as a supplement or relief for the supra-regional railway lines starting in Moscow, so that the railway network within Moscow, together with the Small Ring, has a combined radial-ring structure, which has always been a traditional link for Moscow city planning (see Boulevardring , Gartenring , Third and Fourth Traffic Ring and MKAD ).

The first plans for the construction of the Moscow railway ring were made in the 1870s, but it was not until a few decades later that the project was implemented based on a design by the engineer PIRaschewski. After this received a building permit in 1897, the relocation of the line including the construction of the associated infrastructure took place in the period from spring 1902 to July 1907. Among other things, four railway bridges over the Moscow River and a total of 15 stations were built. The reception buildings of the stations, which are largely still preserved today (and listed), were built in a uniform style with the participation of the well-known architect Alexander Pomeranzew .

From the regular commissioning of the ring on July 20, 1908 until 1930, both goods and people were transported on the route. Steam-powered trains ran at regular intervals, which were mainly used by workers, as a considerable part of the ring route ran through industrial suburban settlements. Passengers were provided with waiting rooms and ticket offices in the reception buildings of the stations. At the beginning of the 20th century, the passenger trains on the Little Ring in Moscow were an important means of inner-city transport, as the outskirts were not adequately served by the tram network at the time. By the early 1930s, however, this gradually changed: the tram network had grown considerably, there were concrete plans for the construction of the metro , and freight transport also required additional capacities in the course of the industrialization of the Soviet Union. This led to the cessation of passenger traffic on the Moscow Small Railway Ring in 1930.

Resumption of passenger traffic

As early as the 1960s, there were considerations of using the small railway ring again for passenger transport. At that time, during the construction of the southern branch of the Kalushsko-Rishskaya line of the Moscow Metro, the Leninsky Prospekt metro station was put into operation, at which an additional exit was planned as a future direct transfer to the ring line. An expansion for passenger traffic has been discussed again since the 1990s, which was due to both the decline in freight traffic on the ring and the inadequate expansion of the metro network, which had stalled in this decade. In particular, the Moscow Metro lacked a larger ring connection that would connect the radial lines bypassing the city center. An expansion of the ring for an S-Bahn- like regular traffic, which complements the subway, finally came from 2012. For this, the small railway ring was electrified. Around 30 passenger stations and stops were built and connection points with the metro were set up at all suitable locations. The Ringbahn was opened in September 2016 and integrated as line 14 into the metro network. Trains of the RŽD series ЭС2Г operate .

Web links

Commons : Moscow Small Railway Ring  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on the renovation plans on metro.molot.ru (Russian)
• The forgotten ring of Moscow (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/1025174.ringbahn-um-moskau.html Ringbahn around Moscow