Tayga railway station

Tayga Тайга
West Siberian Railway terminal
View of the station from platform 3.
General information
Location	Tayga, Russia
Coordinates	56.0621°N 85.6300°E / 56.0621; 85.6300
Owned by	Russian Railways (West Siberian Railway)
Line(s)	Novosibirsk—Krasnoyarsk Tayga—Tomsk Tayga—Kemerovo
Platforms	3 (2 island platforms)
Tracks	10
Construction
Parking	yes
Other information
Station code	873308[1]
History
Opened	1898[2]
Electrified	yes
Services
Preceding station   West Siberian Railway   Following station

Tayga (Russian: Тайга-Главная) is a major junction railway station on the West Siberian Railway in Russia. The biggest railway station of Tayga and one of the biggest in Russia.[3]

History

After the completion of the Siberian Railway in Central Siberia was an unmarked junction, where the railway went to Tomsk. Later the siding was called Tomsk-Tayozhny, and in 1913, was renamed into Tayga.

The design and construction of the station was attended by Russian engineer and writer Garin-Mikhailovsky.

After construction of the bypass railway and the construction of another station in the town of Tayga (Tayga-2) for a long time, the station was called Tayga-1. However, in the 1990s after partial disassembly of a bypass road and Tayga-2 conversion in the siding, the station again became known as Tayga (without a number).[4]

During the use of steam locomotives required much water. First it was acquired from wells and serving on the speakers using a typical water tower. But eventually the water no longer sufficed and it was necessary to build a water pipeline from the Yaya river, where a dam and a pumping station were built.[5]

Trains

• Moscow — Vladivostok
• Moscow — Beijing
• Moscow — Ulaanbaatar
• Moscow — Tomsk
• Moscow — Khabarovsk
• Moscow — Krasnoyarsk
• Kislovodsk — Irkutsk
• Moscow — Abakan
• Moscow — Chita
• Moscow — Neryungri
• Moscow — Ulan-Ude
• Moscow — Severobaikalsk
• Adler — Krasnoyarsk
• Adler — Irkutsk
• Anapa — Tomsk
• Novokuznetsk — Tomsk

Gallery

• 
  Monument-steam locomotive P36-0192, a historical object of cultural heritage.
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  Freight trains driven by electric locomotives VL10 and 2ES10, fire train, depot buildings
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  Water tower, architectural cultural heritage site and restoration train.
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  VL10, locomotive depot.
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  View from the platform.
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  In a snowstorm.
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  Panoramic view.

References

1. Stations of Russia on paravoz.com
2. Железнодорожные станции СССР. Справочник. — М.: Транспорт, 1981
3. Tayga station in Russia
4. The station in Music Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
5. Железнодорожные станции СССР. Справочник. — М.: Транспорт, 1981

External links

• Train times on Yandex