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Tag Archives: Kiev Metro
What happens if you combine a turntable with a train lift?
Turntables are a common sight on railways, allowing rolling stock to be turned around. But the Kiev Metro had a unique piece of engineering at their first train depot – the «Метролифт» (metrolift) that combined turntable with train lift. The […]
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Tagged depots, Kiev, Kiev Metro, maintenance, metros, turntables, Ukraine
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Hidden tracks of the Kiev Metro
The Kiev Metro is a relatively simple system – three independent metro lines running across the city, with passengers changing between them at one of three interchange stations. However trains do have a way of making their way between the […]
Posted in Trains
Tagged Kiev, Kiev Metro, metros, mystery, rail operations, railways, service connecting branches, tunnels, Ukraine, underground, urban exploration
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Retrofitting an underground station to the Kiev Metro
How does one go about retrofitting a station to an existing underground railway? It was was problem that Ukrainian engineers solved in the 1970s, when Teatralna (Театральна) was added to the Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line of the Kiev Metro system. Photo by […]
Posted in Trains
Tagged abandoned, construction, Kiev, Kiev Metro, metros, museum, Ukraine, urban exploration, urbex
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Kiev’s metro tunnel that is actually a bridge
On the Kiev Metro there is a curious section of tunnel that doesn’t run underground – instead the concrete tube is carried over a deep railway cutting by a bridge, only to head straight back underground. Image by AMY, via […]
Ghost stations of the Kiev Metro
Hidden beneath the streets of Kiev, Ukraine is something unusual – a trio of unused metro stations that see train pass through, but never stop. Львiвська Брама (Lvivska Brama) Львiвська Брама (Lvivska Brama) is the best known of the three […]
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Tagged abandoned, ghost stations, Kiev, Kiev Metro, metros, Ukraine, urban exploration, urbex
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Builder’s plates on Russian-built trains
A builder’s plate indicates who built a particular piece of machinery, as well as the the model number, serial number, and date of manufacture. Here are some examples from the rolling stock of the railways of Russia and Ukraine. ЭД4МК […]
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Tagged Kiev Metro, Nizhny Novgorod, rail operations, Russia, Russian Railways, Ukraine
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Interchange stations on Soviet metro systems
Interchange stations on Soviet designed metro systems are a little odd for anyone accustomed to urban rail networks elsewhere in the world – the platforms for each line are treated as their own station, with their own street entrance, and […]
Posted in Trains
Tagged Kiev, Kiev Metro, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Metro, Ukraine
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Newsagents: then and now
Here’s a traditional newsstand on the Kiev Metro. And the modern equivalent in Moscow – a bank of newspaper vending machines. Given how the internet has decimated traditional print media, how long until even the vending machines disappear?
Posted in Everyday life
Tagged Kiev, Kiev Metro, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, newspapers, Russia, Ukraine
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Building blocks of a Soviet metro station
In cities of the former Soviet Union such as Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Kiev, you will find an metro networks filled with ornately decorated underground stations, none of which look the same. But if you look a little deeper at the strcture of each, you will find that each of these stations actually have a common set of building blocks that they all follow.
Posted in Trains
Tagged escalators, Kiev Metro, metros, Moscow Metro, rail operations, Russia, Saint Petersburg Metro, underground
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Escalator attendants of the former Soviet Union
Across the former Soviet Union there are many metro stations found deep below ground, with incredibly long flights of escalators linking them to the surface. That in itself is not unusual, but there is one feature of them which is – escalator attendants.
Posted in Trains
Tagged Kiev Metro, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, Russia, Saint Petersburg Metro
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