Volgograd Metrotram
The Volgograd Metrotram (Skorostnoy Tramvay, ST) is a light rail system operating in Volgograd, Russia. It consists of 22 stations on one line, paralleling the Volga River from the northern suburbs of Volgograd to its city core for a total length of 17.3 kilometres (10.7 mi). The Volgograd Metrotram was inaugurated on 5 November 1984, and had served 50 million passengers per year at the time the 2011 extension was opened.
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Owner | Volgograd Municipality |
Locale | Volgograd, Russia |
Transit type | Light rail |
Number of lines | 2 |
Number of stations | 22 |
Daily ridership | 136,000 |
Operation | |
Began operation | 5 November 1984 |
Operator(s) | Metroelektrotrans |
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System length | 17.3 km (10.7 mi) |
Track gauge | 1,524 mm (5 ft) |
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Most of the Metrotram line shares a surface-level right of way with a previously constructed railway line for 10.2 kilometres (6.3 mi), in a manner similar to that of the south leg of the C-Train system in Calgary, for example. Five city center stations, on the other hand, were built underground in two sections (opened in 1984 and 2011), over a total length of 6.8 kilometres (4.2 mi), meeting design standards consistent with existing Russian metro systems.
Line | Route | Opening | Stations |
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ST | Traktornyj Zavod (VGTZ) (Тракторный завод (ВГТЗ)) ↔ Ploshchad Chekistov (Площадь Чекистов) | 1984 | 19 |
ST2 | Stadion Monolit (Стадион Монолит) ↔ Yel’shanka (Ельшанка) | 2011 | 15 |
Traffic
The Volgograd metrotram normally use right-hand running, with left-hand traffic on the underground section between TRK Europa City Mall and Pionerskaya. This was done to enable unidirectional vehicles to use island platforms. However, on the new underground section between Pionerskaya and Yel'shanka operate exclusively bidirectional vehicles, with right-handed traffic and doors on the both sides.
Stations
List of stations north to south:
- Traktornyy Zavod (Tractor Factory)
- Khlebozavod (Bakery Works)
- Vodootstoy (Water-sediment)
- Bol’nitsa Il’icha (Ilich Hospital)
- Zavod "Barrikady" (Barrikady Factory)
- Chetyrnadcataya Gimnaziya (Gymnasium №14)
- Stadion Monolit (Monolith Stadium)
- Zavod "Krasnyy Oktyabr’" (Red October Steel Factory)
- Tridtsat' Devyataya Gvardeyskaya (39th Guards Rifle Division Street)
- Ploshchad’ Vozrozhdeniya (Revival Square)
- Dvorets Sporta (Sports Palace)
- Mamayev Kurgan (Mamayev Kurgan)
- Tsentral’nyy Stadion (Central Stadium)
- Tsentral’nyy Park Kul’tury i Otdykha (Central Rest and Culture Park)
- Yevropa (Europa City Mall)
- Ploshchad’ Lenina (Lenin Square)
- Komsomol’skaya (Komsomol street)
- Pionerskaya (Pioneers)
- Ploshchad’ Chekistov (Chekists Square)
- Profsoyuznaya (Labour Unions)
- Teatr Yunogo Zritelya (Theatre for Young Spectators)
- Yel’shanka
Planned stations:
- Novosibirskaya
- Agrarnyj Universitet (Agricultural University)
- Tormosilovskaya
- Panfilovskaya
- Kuporosnaya balka (Vitriol beams)
- Gosuniversitet (State University)
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Volgograd Metrotram. |
- Volgograd at UrbanRail.net
- Volgograd metrotram 3D – interactive Web3D model of metrotram
- Volgograd Rapid Tram Underground – photos of the metrotram (with texts in Russian)
- Unofficial site – site in Russian
- Volgograd Metrotram Track Map – site in Russian
- Profsoyuznaya (Labour Unions) station on YouTube video
- Teatr Yunogo Zritelya (Theatre for Young Spectators) station on YouTube video