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Volgograd METRO (photo N.2/6 [KB 209] 800 x 534pixels)
   

By A.Savin [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or FAL], via Wikimedia Commons



DESCRIPTION
Volgograd (the former Stalingrad) manteins its original tram network (opened in 1913 and artculated in 3 sub-networks: northern, central, southern), which has been integrated by the so-called Skorostnoy Tramvaj, a LRT line with a relevant underground section (from north of Ploshad Lenina stop to Yelshanka southern terminal); the northern part of its track (from Traktorozavod to Stadion Monolit) is shared with some of the standard tram routes (similarly to a premetro system).
Volgograd Skorostnoy Tramvaj was planned in USSR (as well as Kryvyi Rih Metrotram, in Ukraine) during years '70s with the aim to develope an efficient rapid urban mass transport system to be applied in other middle-rank urban agglomerations (less than 1 million of inhabitants) responding better than traditional trams to the needs of rapid desplacements. Skorostnoy Tramvaj connects the northern and the central tram sub-networks. The first section of Skorostnoy Tramvaj opened in 1984 (Traktorniy Zavod-Pionerskaya) and it was extended in 2011 (Pionerskaya-Yelshanka).
(last modified February 19, 2017 )
HISTORY
datesection nameline
1913electric tram opening--
05-11-1984VGTZ-Pl. ChekistovSkorostnoy Tramvaj
29-12-2008TRK Europa City Mall stopSkorostnoy Tramvaj
01-12-2011Pionerskaya - YelshankaSkorostnoy Tramvaj
(last modified February 19, 2017 )
TECHNICAL DATA
Single line length (Km)
tram:27.5
fast tram:17.3
Single line stops
tram:64
fast tram:22
Single line avg. distance (km)
tram:0.45
fast tram:0.75
Total track length (km)
44.8
Total network stops
86
Avg. stop net distance (km)
0.50
Type
steel wheels
Current/Voltage
600 V DC overhead
Type of guide/gauge
1524 mm gauge rails
Vehicles builder
TATRA,UVKZ,PTMF
Model
T3SU,KT8D5,T6B5SU,T3R.PV,71-409-01,LWS-2009
Operator
METROELEKTROTRANS
(last modified February 19, 2017 )
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