The First Main Line in Russia
https://doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2020-19-2-18
Abstract
The article is dedicated to the 170th anniversary of the first Russian railway main line St. Petersburg–Moscow. The country’s railway transport, as the main type of transportation, has a rich history and remarkable patriotic, labour, scientific, and technical traditions. We must remember them. The emergence of railways in Russia, as in other countries of the world, was accompanied by many problems that needed to be solved: financing methods, types of ownership, track gauge, types of traction and signalling, traffic management and control, competition with other modes of transport, etc. The stage of emergence of railways in Russia is very instructive. What extreme points of view were expressed, and how long did it take to start building main lines? After the society realised the need for construction of railways, it became obvious that the costs required are not affordable neither for the state, nor for creditors, nor for private entrepreneurs. To better understand how construction of the first railway in Russia was conducted, the article offers many illustrations.
About the Author
D. Yu. Levin
International Association of scientists, professors and experts
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
D.Sc. (Eng),
Moscow
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Levin D.Yu. The First Main Line in Russia. World of Transport and Transportation. 2021;19(2):124-136. https://doi.org/10.30932/1992-3252-2020-19-2-18
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