Moscow Savyolovo Railway Station

The station building, 2019

The Savjolowoer Bahnhof ( Russian Савёловский вокзал - Sawjolowski woksal ) in the Russian capital Moscow is today the only terminus in the city that is served exclusively by local trains. Long-distance trains in the same direction depart from the Belarusian railway station .

Train traffic

The Zavyolovo station, for which the station Zavyolovo of the city of Kimry is named, serves one of the northern outer branches of the Moscow railway network. Regional trains - also known as Elektrichki - run from here to Dmitrov , Dubna , Kimry and Taldom , among others . Until the mid-2000s, the Zavyolovo train station was a long-distance station, but this was then discontinued (if one disregards the express trains to Dubna that still run today, for which tickets have to be purchased at the remote counter); Until then, four pairs of trains left here to Rybinsk , Uglich and a branch line to Saint Petersburg .

history

View from 2002 with old facade painting, in the foreground the metro station Zavyolovskaya

Interior view of the reception building, 2002

The station was built at the beginning of the 20th century on the initiative of the entrepreneur Savva Mamontov , at that time chairman of the board of the Moscow-Yaroslavl Railway Company . After the latter received the building permit from Tsar Nicholas II in 1897 , the construction of a 130-kilometer-long railway line from Moscow to Kimry began, which was later extended to Rybinsk.

The station building of the station intended to serve the new route was built between 1897 and 1902. The location chosen was a plot of land just outside the city limits at that time, in the village of Butyrka (which is also named for the nearby Butyrka prison) because of the comparatively low land prices there. Of course, the Moscow city parliament had already decided in 1900 to expand the city limits, so that the train station was now located in the city of Moscow. The inauguration took place on March 23, 1902. Originally the station was called Butyrski woksal after its location .

When it was completed, the station building had only one floor, with the exception of the two-story middle section, where there were official apartments for the railway staff.

After the opening, the Zavyolovo train station survived for a good 80 years without major renovations. It was only towards the end of the 1980s, when problems arose due to increasing congestion in the building, that the station was expanded. In the course of this, the reception building was continuously extended over two floors and thoroughly renovated. In 1988 the Zavyolovo train station also got the long overdue subway connection when the Serpukhovsko-Timirjasewskaya metro line was extended in a northerly direction to the Zavyolovskaya station.

In 2005, as part of the planning for the airport rail link, a renewed renovation of the station building began. This got a new, light brown paint instead of the original green one, and the platforms were also renewed. On June 10, 2008, a direct express connection to Terminal 2 and to the future Terminal 3 of Sheremetyevo Airport went into operation. In the meantime, however, the stop of the airport express has been moved from Zavyolovo to the Belarusian railway station.