Some photos on this page are courtesy of Alexander Shanin, Moscow, and are used with author's permission.
This tram station was opened in 1954. That year the All-Union Exhibition (VDNKh) was reopened,
and a reliable transport was required - the only transport to fulfil the requirements being the tram. In fact, there were
two tram stations - South and North - near the exhibition entrance. After years, the Metro came hither, and the tram stations
lost most of patronage. The North station was closed in 1972, and the South one survived until 1997.
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A tram is entering the terminus. Note that the left track branches, and the right track returns back to Prospekt
Mira.
© Alexander Shanin
June 1991.
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Almost the same place, but viewed in the opposite direction. The terminus had two tracks, but in 1980's only the
inner track was used by trams. The outer track mostly served as a parking lot for road maintenance vehicles - snowploughs
etc. By the end of 1980's, those vehicles were rebased from the track, but it was not put in regular use anyway.
© Alexander Shanin
June 1991. |
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The terminus had two junctions connecting the inner and outer tracks. A set of two Tatras is moving along one of
those branches, while the other one (obviously disused) looms in the foreground.
© Alexander Shanin
June 1991.
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The train is leaving the terminus. The departure track sloped up and down a small hill, just look at the level difference
between the tracks.
© Alexander Shanin
July 1991.
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The tracks were completely rebuilt in 1995. The future seemed bright for the terminus, but... Somebody in the city
government changed his mind, and in 1997 the loop was closed, and the tracks were taken away. A new supermarked has
been built here instead.
July 1997. |
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The rails were partly dismantled in July 1997. A year later nothing would remind of them.
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Some pieces of overhead wire still can be seen in the back yard of the supermarket built in the place where the tracks
had been.
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