In modern Russia, the Gorky direction pattern reflects traffic along one of the busiest and most demanded sites. Long-distance trains will allow you to get to Nizhny Novgorod, and Yekaterinburg, and Beijing. However, a significant part of the passenger flow is made up of residents of the Moscow Region who come to the capital to work. The total number of citizens of settlements served by commuter trains is about a million. Often during the hours of greatest intensity, the compositions are overcrowded.
Transport routes of the Gorky direction: how did it all begin?
The decision to build a railway link between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod (in the USSR renamed the city of Gorky) was officially confirmed by the imperial decree of Nicholas I of May 10, 1847. The movement started on June 14, 1861. The Nizhny Novgorod railway station was built in a hurry, and trains from Moscow to Vladimir began to depart from it.
At the beginning of December 1885, the movement of passenger trains began in the following section: Stepanovo - Zakharovo. Its length was 18 kilometers.
In the second half of the 90s of the 19th century, the Kursk-Nizhny Novgorod station, later renamed Kursky, became the starting point for Gorky trains of the Moscow Railway.
In 1911 and 1925 The construction of 12 and 15-kilometer sections was completed: the Reutovo - Balashikha and Pavlovsky Posad - Power Transmission branches.
The electrification of the direction, which began in the 30s of the twentieth century, supplied new branches to Obiralovka, Balashikha with new energy, and by the beginning of the 60s reached Petushka and Vladimir stations.
In the early 70's, the Monino-Fryazevo section was opened, which connected the stations of the Gorky direction and Yaroslavsky.
The chaotic nineties entailed the cancellation of a train running from reserved seats to Vladimir, and then direct direct communications with the city were canceled. The movement was restored only at the beginning of the 21st century, although not in full.
In 2008, reorganization of the goods movement on the branch between the Zheleznodorozhnaya and Kuskovo stations was carried out. The third route, which served for freight trains, was stretched to the station and turned into a passenger express train.
Since the end of July 2010, the modern Sapsan electric train was launched between St. Petersburg, Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod, and trains departed from both terminals twice a day.
In 2014, work began on the reconstruction of the Gorky direction, traffic patterns were adjusted to current needs in the number of operating long-distance trains and suburban electric trains, express trains.
Suburban electric trains of the Gorky direction
The main passage belongs to the territory of the Moscow-Kursk region of the capital railway. The most significant stations of the direction are Zheleznodorozhny, Orekhovo-Zuyevo, Pavlovsky Posad, Noginsk, Kuchino.
For the rolling stock intended for suburban passenger traffic, the TCH-4 Zheleznodorozhnaya depot is responsible. Its main part consists of electric trains of the ED4M model. Also, Sputnik high-speed electric trains and three express trains with enhanced comfort status are involved in this area.
The Gorky scheme includes lines and stations:
- The main passage has three active and one path under construction. This segment is from the Kursk station in Moscow to the Petushki station, the branches of which are located on the territory of Moscow, as well as its region and Vladimirskaya. Moreover, the Petushki station does not belong to the Gorky direction, but to the Gorky railway.
- There are several branches with different quantitative composition of paths (single and double): Reutov - Balashikha, Reutov - Construction; Fryazevo - Zakharovo; Pavlovsky Posad - Elektrogorsk.
- The adjoining Mytishchi-Fryazevo line was built for transfer to electric trains of the Yaroslavl direction.
- The Orekhovo-Zuyevo station can be used as an interchange for the Big Ring electric train of the Moscow Railway (in the north the terminal station will be Aleksandrov, in the south - Kurovskaya) or the Lastochka speed train running between Nizhny Novgorod and the capital.
The nodal station is Kursky Station (otherwise - Moscow-Passenger-Kurskaya). Here you can land on suburban direct and transit trains, long-distance trains of the Gorky, Kursk and Belorussian directions.
Also, at the Kursk station, it will be possible to carry out a transplant on the lines of the Moscow metro - Kurskaya and Chkalovskaya. If necessary, you can transfer to the intermediate parking - the platform "Hammer and Sickle", "Novogireevo", "Reutovo".
Appearance, colors and symbols
All stations of the Gorky direction are equipped with high platforms, fully electrified. Since 2008, modern turnstiles began to be installed. The direction has its own colors - it is light yellow, white and gray. Information plates with station names are kept in corporate colors of Russian Railways - a combination of red and two versions of gray. The former colors of the direction were blue and yellow, part of the scoreboard on the platforms so far remained in these colors.
Long-distance train traffic: Gorky Railway
The scheme of the Gorky direction includes the paths of the Moscow Railway, passing into Gorky. The total length of the latter is 12086 km with a total length of 5734 kilometers.
Management of the Gorky Railway is carried out in Nizhny Novgorod. The railway lines run through 6 republics:
- Bashkiria.
- Mari El Republic.
- Mordovia.
- Tatarstan
- Udmurtia.
- Chuvashia.
And 9 areas:
- Vladimirskaya.
- Vologda.
- Ekaterinburg.
- Kirovskaya.
- Moscow.
- Nizhny Novgorod.
- Perm.
- Ryazan.
- Ulyanovsk.
It connects the center, northwest and north of the Russian Federation with the Volga region, the Urals and Siberia.
The direction has parallel paths at two latitudes. The first is Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod - Kirov. Trains also run from the capital through Kazan, reaching Yekaterinburg.
Not a single railway in the world, except Gorky, bears the name of a writer. She keeps the memory of Alexei Maximovich Gorky, who was born in Nizhny Novgorod.
