Lansky station crossover

Lansky station crossover
Crossover at winter night
Coordinates	59°59′38″N 30°19′38″E / 59.99389°N 30.32722°E / 59.99389; 30.32722Coordinates: 59°59′38″N 30°19′38″E / 59.99389°N 30.32722°E / 59.99389; 30.32722
Carries	Railroad
Crosses	Serdobolsky street with tram line
Locale	Between Lanskaya station platforms, Saint Peterburg Russia
Official name	Serdobolsky crossover
Maintained by	RZhD, OktZhD, SPbZhD
Characteristics
Design	Joist double bridge on metal tubular support and stone coastal foundations
Material	Metal
Total length	30 m
Width	2 + 1 track way
Longest span	10 m
Number of spans	3
History
Designer	Finnish Railways
Construction end	1869
Opened	before 1910

RZhD, OktZhD, SPbZhD, Russia Engineering objects of Lanskaya railway station
Legend
To Udelnaya 1869 To N. Derevnya 1926 line SPb-Sestr.-Beloostrov 1926 5.9 1926 Lanskoye shosse 5.5 Lansky station crossover 1869 5.3 Lanskaya substation 1950 Serdobolskaya st. 5.1 Lansky station cr. 1869 5.0 Change of kilometrage 4.9 Lanskaya 1869 road B. Sampsonievsky pr. road Institutsky pr. 4.6 Four bridges on three support 1869 To Kushelevka 0 Finlyandsky Rail Term. line SPb-Sestr.-Beloostrov

Lansky station crossover is a railway bridge across Serdobolskaya street. On either side of it, on high embankments, there are the station platforms of Lansky railway station. The bridge was opened in 1869^[1] and the first train proceeded through it on July 3 [O.S. June 22] 1869.^[2] The bridge was expanded in 1926.

Station access

The platform of Lanskaya station, from the Saint Petersburg direction, is located on the embankment. Access to it is obtained from under the bridge.

Memoirs

The bridge is mentioned in the memoir "March of 1917" by the novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.^[3]

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