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At the end of July, among other announcements, I came across the arrival of the head of Russian Railways for the opening of a museum and industrial complex based on the Podmoskovnaya depot. Unfortunately, accreditation was already closed, so I went there in my free time from work with a child who really loves trains.

So, let's talk about the main thing right away - DO NOT COME here on weekdays. The museum is open only on weekends from 10 to 16. Since the museum does not even have its own website, you can only find out about it from this post, or from a piece of paper on the closed gate.

The station and its locomotive depot were built in 1901. A fan-type locomotive depot with a turntable and a water pumping station were also built there. In 1938, a connecting track was built at the station with the Sokol electric depot under construction, through which the Moscow Metro began to receive cars from the plant.

Roundabout depot at Podmoskovnaya station. 1900-1930

At the entrance I was greeted by a polite security guard. He didn’t take any money for the tickets, which surprised me, but then it became clear why. He took me to the station building. In fact, the station building is located in a different location, but it was decided to make a museum in this utility room so that all the objects were in one place.

There is a waiting room, a ticket office...

... luggage compartment

There is also a buffet and a mock-up of an omnibus where you can sit, but that’s basically all. But it’s clear why they didn’t take money for entry. In the near future, a cafe will open in a separate building and excursions to the depot itself will begin. In the meantime, you can look at it from the outside

If you're lucky, you'll find a working steam locomotive nearby.

Also, at the end of July, the most modern multi-unit depot in Russia, Podmoskovnaya, was opened at the station, where passenger electric trains that will run along the Small Ring of the Moscow Railway, as well as Lastochka and Sapsan trains, are serviced. You can walk from the museum to the depot; no one is rushing you. Through the glass I had a chance to admire the half-disassembled Sapsan

The Podmoskovnaya station was built in 1901 as part of a large-scale project to build the Moscow-Vindava railway. The growth of industrial production, the establishment of capitalism and the development of trade required connecting Moscow with the Baltic ports. Before the opening of the Vindava (Rizhsky) station, Podmoskovnaya served as the main freight and passenger station on the way from Moscow to Vindava, and then to Riga.
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The railway was built by the Moscow-Vindavo-Rybinsk Railway Company and ran along the route Moscow - Rzhev - Velikiye Luki - Mitava - Vindava (now Ventspils, an ice-free port in Latvia, not far from Riga).

Construction of the Moscow-Vindavo railway began in 1898, and already on July 2, 1901, the first train departed from Podmoskovnaya station in Moscow to Rzhev station.

On September 11, 1901, the Vindavsky station in Moscow was opened (from 1930 - Baltiysky, from 1942 - Rzhevsky, from 1946 to the present - Rizhsky). And in 1904, construction was completed, and the direct Moscow-Vindava railway began operating.
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04. Monument to drivers and workers of the Podmoskovnaya depot who died during the Great Patriotic War.

06. Station building of the Moscow-Vindavo-Rybinsk railway built in 1901

08. Bell. No, the bell.

09. Below is an elegant lineman's hammer.

10. Portrait of the Minister of Railways.


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13. Kuznetsov porcelain of the 19th century.

14. The station was heated with wood, and there was also a stove.

15. Some unknown thing.

16. Post office at the station.

Diesel is coming from Sinai. He had already been given a green signal.
This diesel is a real scandal! Since it was included in the schedule, there has been no problem with the senior classes. All the girls just lost their heads!
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18. At the beginning of the 20th century, they didn’t send SMS from the station, but these “Greetings from the road” postcards.


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There is still more than an hour before the train departs. Shall we go and have some tea? How about something to eat? There is some duck with cabbage left over from lunch. Wonderful duck! She was crushed by a diesel yesterday.
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24. Third class waiting room. I told you about the hall classes when we were at the Kanatchikovo station.

25. You can check your suitcase into the luggage compartment, then it will travel in a separate carriage.

26. A whole transport wardrobe. There is an interesting picture on the wall - in it the peasants, who saw the locomotive for the first time, stand deeply amazed. Range of feelings: from surprise to laughter.

Behind the station duty officer’s back is D.S.’s staff apparatus. Treger

One of the main questions in organizing traffic is who will occupy the stage. While traffic on Russian railways was small, the matter was resolved simply. There is a schedule, which includes at most four to five pairs of trains per day, and there is a telegraph. “The main purpose of the railway telegraph is to transmit telegrams to ensure the correctness and safety of traffic,” wrote the director of the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod Railway Ivan Rerberg. This technology had serious disadvantages. Firstly, it took several minutes to exchange telegrams, and all this time the train stood at the station, waiting to depart. Secondly, as they say now, the human factor played a big role. According to Rerberg, during his 25 years as director of the road, five times trains went towards each other due to a mistake by the station attendant. However, thanks to the low speed, the drivers always managed to stop in time when they saw an oncoming train.

In 1925, domestic electromechanic D.S. Treger has developed a new electric baton device that ensures the safety of train movement along the tracks. Serial production of new devices was established by the Losinoostrovsky road workshops of the Northern Road.

The rod system is a method of communication when trains move on single-track sections of railways. The rod system ensures traffic safety, eliminating the simultaneous presence of more than one train on the stretch.

The locomotive driver received the baton from the duty officer at the departure station and gave it to the duty officer at the arrival station. The latter, having received the rod, rotated the inductor handle and sent current to the apparatus of the departure station. This meant that the stage was free.

28. When a train passes through the station, the attendant stands on the platform with flags.

30. At night, the duty officer stands on the platform with a flashlight

31. Let's go further. On the left in the house is the station chief's apartment.


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33. In the station master's office

34. Opposite the office is the dining room. and beyond the door is the bedroom.


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36. From the station manager’s apartment, let’s go to the water tower. The building of the water tower of the Podmoskovnaya locomotive depot, built in 1901


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Water tower of Podmoskovnaya station. It was built at the beginning of the 20th century simultaneously with the station and is an architectural monument. The architect Alexander Nikanorovich Pomerantsev, the creator of the buildings of the Historical Museum and the Upper Trading Rows (now GUM) on Red Square, took part in its construction.
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Inside the water tower there is an exhibition of equipment: various pumps, taps and pipes to ensure the operation of this entire water supply system.
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40. Tower duty desk.


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43. Piston valve pump for pumping water into reservoirs at the top of the tower. 1907

44. Housing of the water intake column.

45. Vertical drilling machine from the beginning of the last century.

46. ​​Worker's clothing and footwear.

48. More ball valves and lamps.

49. Cast iron pipeline valve

50. Hand piston pump 1903

Lamp LBVK-6. 1901 Do you think - a kerosene lamp? But they didn’t guess right. This is a gas analyzer used to detect gas contamination in sewer or water wells. This lamp was lowered on a rope into the well and the light was observed. If the flame increases, then the percentage of methane or hydrogen sulfide in the air has increased. If the light goes out, carbon dioxide is present.

Such lamps are still used today and are more reliable than computer gas analyzers.
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The great Russian engineer Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov was an exceptionally diverse person. Among his inventions are various types of pumps, cylindrical oil storage tanks, an industrial installation for the production of gasoline, and steam boilers. He designed and built the first three Russian oil field pipelines, and also became the author of the projects for the first crabgrass main pipelines.

The monument to Vladimir Shukhov was unveiled on December 2, 2008. Such a gift was presented to the capital by the oil company Lukoil and installed on Turgenevskaya Square. The pedestal looks like the design of his famous tower; Shukhov himself is cast in bronze in full height with a cape on his shoulders and holding rolls of drawings in his hands. At the base of the pedestal there are bas-reliefs with famous designs by Shukhov.

Over the years of V.G.’s life. Shukhov in Russia and the USSR, more than 200 Shukhov hyperboloid water towers were built. Of these, more than 40 were built for Russian railways.

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Water indicator of the D.S. system Tregera. 1957 Oh, this Treger, and he also invented the water indicator. As you can see, there is a “Pump - Enough” scale and a bell that gives a sound signal when you need to turn off the pump.
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Also a water level indicator, but with a slightly different operating principle.
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It is not always convenient to work with large-diameter pipes (from 4 inches or more) with classically designed wrenches. So, chain wrenches are used here - as the name suggests, the gripping element in them is a metal chain.
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Spiral staircase to the top
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The water tower is operational and supplies water to the locomotive depot. At the top of the building there are two huge water tanks.
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We leave the tower and go past the locomotive turning circle to the workshops.
The turntable is electrically driven. But it can also be easily turned manually by a locomotive crew (together with the locomotive).

(Workshop PM-18 named after Ilyich)
The depot is fan-shaped and rectangular. It includes the buildings of a wooden rest house for locomotive crews and a brick water tower in the Art Nouveau style characteristic of the early 20th century. Architect Yu.F. Diederiks.

Historical monument of regional significance
Registration number: 771520335670005
Decree of the Moscow Government "On the inclusion of identified cultural heritage objects in the unified state register of cultural heritage objects (historical and cultural monuments) of the peoples of the Russian Federation as objects of cultural heritage of regional significance. No. 759-PP dated December 16, 2014

The Podmoskovnaya station was built in 1901 as part of the construction of the Vindava Railway (now the Riga direction of the Moscow Railway). By the opening of traffic on the road, a fan-type locomotive depot with a turntable and a water pumping station with a coal warehouse for equipping steam locomotives were built. Trains departed from this station until the opening of the Vindava (now Rizhsky) station in September 1901; the first train departed on July 2, 1901. Before the opening of the Krasny Baltiets platform in 1945, passenger traffic was carried out through the station. Since about the same year, you can get to the Krasny Baltiets platform via a pedestrian bridge passing over the station tracks.

Since 1938, the station has had a connecting track with the Sokol electric depot, through which the Moscow Metro receives cars from the plant. The boundaries of the Podmoskovnaya station include (or at least included) the Krasny Baltiets, Leningradskaya and Pokrovskoe-Streshnevo platforms, because the first two are located in close proximity, and on the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo platform until recently there was a track development related to the Podmoskovnaya station. In the western neck of the station there is a connecting branch with the Moscow Railway.

As part of the construction of the Riga Railway (formerly Vindava Railway), a
Podmoskovnaya station. When traffic opened on the road, a fan-type locomotive depot with a turntable was also built. Trains departed from the station until the opening of the Vindavsky (now Rizhsky) station in September 1901. Before the opening of the Krasny Baltiets platform in 1945, passenger traffic was carried out through the station. In the 1940s, the station was the largest marshalling station of the Moscow railway junction. Now the passenger line runs north of Podmoskovnaya, which is still one of the largest freight hubs in Moscow. The depot is located between the Sokol metro station and the Timiryazevsky forest park. Now this is the only Moscow depot that maintains the infrastructure for preventive maintenance of steam locomotives. The depot serves both local steam locomotives (running daily from Rizhsky Station as part of the excursion program of the Russian Railways Museum) and steam locomotives of the Shcherbinsky Ring. It is here that visitors are brought as part of the “Retro Train” excursion, departing from the Rizhsky Station.

In 2001, the following sign was erected:

The station has preserved a wooden station building, a complex of depot buildings: a water tower, a fan-type locomotive depot building with a turntable, an administrative building (depot office) and a house for the staff servicing the tower. All buildings were built in 1901 in the Art Nouveau style and are a single architectural ensemble - the last (according to Internet sources) to survive on the Moscow-Vindava Railway line.
First, let's take a walk to the fan. Previously there were 13 parking spaces, but later some of them were turned into premises. Currently there is space for 9 or 10 steam locomotives/locomotives:

All entrances are made of brick, as is the front part of the fan. The main hangar is made of reinforced concrete.

Despite the small apparent size of the fan, it is very spacious inside - the width of the fan is 30 metres, the height is up to 8-9m:

The height of this L-type locomotive is 5 meters!

The hangars also house disassembled and restored steam locomotives:

The gate leaves may have been hanging here for more than 110 years and have seen 5 generations of installers :)

In general, it’s quite cool to walk along such a fan; you don’t even suspect what you’ll see beyond the passage to the next section. Each section has 5 locomotive seats:

And here it’s empty, he’s probably gone to carry passengers :)

We met the work plan for 3 months ahead:

Despite the loyalty of the local fitters, it was still decided not to catch their eye with a camera, so from there we soon retreated to the street. More photos of the entrances to the hangars:

Along the fan's path, the locomotives are distributed by a turntable, which is naturally still in operation:

The wooden booth of the circle manager has still been preserved:

The electrification of the circle, on horseback, is very interesting:

The railway tracks run from the station in three directions - from the western part of the station along Konstantin Tsarev Street on the MK Moscow Railway, to the Serebryany Bor station, as well as towards Rzhev and the Rizhsky station (in the Rizhsky direction). And the roads leaving the depot are generally creepy:

When leaving, there is another rare thing - a hydraulic column for filling locomotives with water:

On the territory of the depot there is another hangar for 2 locomotive spaces. As I understand it, this is the main workshop where short-term minor repairs, lubrication and inspection of machine parts are carried out. At the time of our visit there were two steam locomotive L early 50s of the 20th century. The height of these colossuses is 4.99 m, and the working weight is as much as 102 tons!!!

This is what the entrance to the second hangar looks like from afar:

There are a couple more rusty locomotives at the entrance:

There are also monuments on the territory of the Moscow region. For example, the ubiquitous memorial plaque in memory of those killed during the Second World War:

Old water tower, built in 1901. I think now it is not used for its intended purpose.

The “modern” replacement for steam locomotives is the ChME3 locomotive from 1989:

In general, we accidentally wandered into the depot; there was no such purpose. Just making our way through Timiryazevsky Park, we saw a smoking steam locomotive on the Riga direction between the Krasny Baltiya and Grazhdanskaya platforms and decided to try to go look at the steam locomotives, just like that :)

According to Wikipedia, on November 18, 2008, Moscow Government Decree No. 1070-PP “On the General Scheme for the Development of the Moscow Railway Hub” was adopted. According to this resolution, Podmoskovnaya station will be liquidated and a residential area will be built in its place, which I hope will not happen!

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Wednesday - Saturday from 10-00 to 16-45; Sunday from 10-00 to 16-30. The ticket office closes at 16-00

Ticket price: Adult visitors - 150 rubles. Pensioners, students, schoolchildren 100 rub. Children under 7 years old 60 rub. Free admission - the third Wednesday of the month (only for Olympic participants). The cost of the excursion (application strictly by calling the museum) is 1,500 rubles. (group up to 20 people). When visiting the museum on an excursion, purchase a tour voucher and an entrance ticket at the museum ticket office. The excursion package is valid only with an entrance ticket. All excursion services are paid at the cash desk regardless of the day of visit.

Historical site "Locomotive Depot" at the station "Podmoskovnaya" At the historical site of the locomotive depot you will see the premises and building of the station, which recreates the atmosphere and decor of the early twentieth century. In the station building there is an old ticket office and telegraph, you will visit the waiting rooms for various classes of the public, and, of course, look into the buffet, where you can see how visitors who were waiting for the arrival or departure of the train were previously served. There is a very interesting interactive mirror in the waiting room. If you look into it, you can see yourself in a crowd of passengers rushing about their business. In addition, you can go (virtual tour) on a stagecoach around Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century, from the village of Vsekhsvyatskoye to Red Square. There is a water tower on the museum grounds. You will be able to visit the room where you will be shown interactive exhibits and the process of refueling and filling a steam locomotive with water. And that's not all... You will visit the office of the head of the railway station, where you will see a work office. You will feel the atmosphere of antiquity in the service apartment of a railway employee of the early twentieth century. At the depot you can see employees working in the machine shop making a part to repair a steam locomotive. In the hall there is a steam locomotive of the Er 766-24 series, an unusual cross-section, where you can find out the structure of ancient steam locomotives. The exhibition ends with a turning circle of the locomotive depot. Where locomotives stand with smoke and steam waiting to set off.