The Upper Volga railway was a private railway in the Upper Volga region of Russia, built in 1914–1921 and in the second half of the 1930s. It was planned as part of a backup route from Leningrad to Mo
Token of the Society of the Upper Volga Railway of the Russian Empire, 1914.
Charter of the Upper Volga Railway Company
Steam locomotive of type "O". Operated in the 1900s, 1910s, 1920s on the Moscow-Savyolovo line, and later Savyolovo-Kalyazin
Steam locomotive of type "2-2-0-P". Operated in the 1900s, 1910s, 1920s on the lines Rybinsk-Bezhetsk and Kashin-Krasny Holm (photo from the book of V.A. Rakov "Locomotives of domestic railways").
Savyolovo is a microdistrict of the town of Kimry in Tver Oblast, Russia. It lies on the right bank of the Volga River and is connected to the left-bank part of Kimry by a 554-metre-long bridge over t
Upper Volga railway
…railway), Kalyazin, and Novki stations of the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod railway. Two more branches were also to be built from Kalyazin: the first to Savyolovo station (then under the jurisdiction of Northern Railways), and the second to the city of Uglich. According to 1914 estimates, the total length of the…
Savyolovo: the station building