Savyolovskaya

Savelovskaya (Russian Савёловская; ? Pronunciation / i) (also called " gray line "), and a directly adjacent holding point for suburban trains, the name of a metro station of the Moscow Metro on the Serpuchowsko - Timirjasewskaja line. Both stations owe their name to the Savyolovsky station, an area served only by regional trains railway terminus, which is located in the immediate vicinity.

Subway station

Metro Station Savelovskaya was put into operation on 31 December 1988 as part of a northern extension of the Serpuchowsko - Timirjasewskaja - line from a year earlier station opened Chekhovskaya. With the completion of the subway station of Savyolovsky station was ( to whom he was still counted ) connected as the last of the Moscow railway stations and the metro network. Previously, you had travelers who wanted to reach by public transport to the train station, use the Ring Line station Novoslobodskaya and from there take the bus or trolleybus. After her commissioning, the Savelovskaya served for a time, until a new northern extension of Serpuchowsko - Timirjasewskaja - line in March 1991, as the northern terminus of the line, so there are in the area north of the station sweeping tracks ( the only for stabling of trains on since 1991 be used night).

The station was built 52 meters below ground and has access. This is part of a widespread pedestrian underpass that leads directly to both the forecourt and the platforms of the Savyolovsky station as well, for example, the breakpoint Savelovskaya ( see below) and the intersection of the main road Dmitrower Chaussee with the Third Transport Ring. Conversely, you can go from the underpass from the main hall of the metro station, by the result of long escalators to the platform.

The train shed, which is executed in a typical Moscow Metro kind of three shared the platform is marked by two rows of slightly curved massive pylons in weißmarmorner trim that are closed at the top by a semicircular vault. The lighting of the hall does not come, as for many Moscow metro stations typical of chandeliers, but of projectors that are hidden in the two ledges on the pylon series. The floor is made of pink gray granite slabs. The walls above the tracks are covered with white marble panels, which are also decorated with large mosaic compositions with designs from the Russian railway history, where held there scenes ( including, for example, historic horse-drawn trams, steam locomotives and modern EMUs ) from the style of traditional Russian Lubok motives remember.

Railway breakpoint Savelovskaya

The breakpoint Savelovskaya 1964 established at the inner-city rail link between the two highways Moscow - Smolensk and Moscow - Kursk. In contrast to the neighboring Savyolovsky station, which is a terminal station, the breakpoint Savelovskaya is ( which is sometimes confused because of the name similarity with the station) operated by by moving commuter trains that from here either in Western (and thus on the Belarus station in suburbs such as Odintsovo or Golizyno ) or thus operate on the Kursk station after about Schtscherbinka, Podolsk Chekhov or ) in eastern and southern direction ( and. The breakpoint consists of a single central platform, which is connected by a pedestrian tunnel to the station forecourt and the Metro Station.