Volgograd Metrotram
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The Volgograd Metrotram is a light rail
Light rail
Light rail or light rail transit is a form of urban rail public transportation that generally has a lower capacity and lower speed than heavy rail and metro systems, but higher capacity and higher speed than traditional street-running tram systems...
system operating in Volgograd
Volgograd
Volgograd , formerly called Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is long, north to south, situated on the western bank of the Volga River...
, Russia
Russia
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. It consists of 19 stations on one line, paralleling the Volga River
Volga River
The Volga is the largest river in Europe in terms of length, discharge, and watershed. It flows through central Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia. Out of the twenty largest cities of Russia, eleven, including the capital Moscow, are situated in the Volga's drainage...
from the northern suburbs of Volgograd to its downtown core for a total length of 13.5 kilometres. Most of the Metrotram line shares a surface-level right of way with a previously constructed railway line for 10.2 kilometres, in a manner similar to that of the south leg of the C-Train
C-Train
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system in Calgary
Calgary
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, for example; the three downtown stations, on the other hand, were built underground over a total length of 3.3 kilometres, meeting design standards consistent with existing Russian metro
Rapid transit
A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...
systems.
The Volgograd Metrotram was inaugurated on 5 November 1984, and presently serves 50 million passengers per year.
Stations
List of stations north to south:- Traktornyy Zavod (Tractor Factory)
- Khlebozavod (Bakery Works)
- Vodootstoy (Water-sediment)
- Bol’nitsa Il’icha (Ilich Hospital)
- Zavod "Barrikady" (Barrikady Factory)
- Tridtsat' Pervaya Shkola (31st School)
- Stadion Monolit (Monolith Stadium)
- Zavod "Krasnyy Oktyabr’" (Red October Steel Factory)
- Tridtsat' Devyataya Gvardeyskaya (39th Guards Rifle Division Street)
- Ploshchad’ Vozrozhdeniya (Revival Square)
- Dvorets Sporta (Sports Palace)
- Mamayev Kurgan (Mamayev KurganMamayev KurganMamayev Kurgan is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd in Southern Russia. The name in Russian means "tumulus of Mamai"....
) - Tsentral’nyy Stadion (Central Stadium)
- Tsentral’nyy Park Kul’tury i Otdykha (Central Rest and Culture Park)
- Yevropa (Europa City Mall)
- Ploshchad’ Lenina (Lenin Square)
- Komsomol’skaya (KomsomolKomsomolThe Communist Union of Youth , usually known as Komsomol , was the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Komsomol in its earliest form was established in urban centers in 1918. During the early years, it was a Russian organization, known as the Russian Communist Union of...
street) - Pionerskaya (Pioneers)
- Ploshchad’ Chekistov (ChekistsChekaCheka was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations. It was created by a decree issued on December 20, 1917, by Vladimir Lenin and subsequently led by aristocrat-turned-communist Felix Dzerzhinsky...
Square)
Under construction:
- Profsoyuznaya (Labour Unions)
- Teatr Yunogo Zritelya (Theatre for Young Spectators)
- Yel’shanka
- Rayonnaya
- Sel'khozakademiya (Volgograd A&M Academy)
Approved:
- Tormosilovskaya
- Panfilovskaya
- Mikrorayon 231
- Universitet
External links
- http://www.urbanrail.net/eu/ru/vol/volgograd.htm — Volgograd metrotram
- Volgograd metrotram 3D — interactive Web3D model of metrotram
- Volgograd Rapid Tram Underground — photos of the metrotram (with texts in Russian)
- Unofficial site — site in Russian