Bus schedule Nakhabino Pavlovskaya Sloboda. Rail travel
The promised continuation of the report on Saturday’s hike to Pavlovskaya Sloboda along the dismantled railway line. Start here: Let me remind you that that time I stopped at the Ozerka platform.
Immediately behind the platform is a crossing. As usual, the rails remained under the asphalt. And right on the way they erected a billboard.
The asphalt is crap, the rails are coming out from under it.
Here again the road replaced the railway.
And in some places the roadside was paved with sleepers. And was there any desire to turn them over?
Suddenly, rails emerge from the road dust.
The automobile track suppressed the railway track, obviously even before the complete elimination of the branch...
The rails have already been stripped from the wooden sleepers by the inhabitants of another village:
I had to go back and go around to the right. There I came across the remains of a crossing through a certain branch from the station. Pavlovskaya Sloboda:
In the other direction, the remains of the path are immediately lost in impassable thickets.
I pass them along the way. As things progress, the path climbs an embankment and goes behind another fence. It docked at the main track somewhere in a fenced area. Here is the main path to freedom:
Someone sawed the rail, but left it in place (perhaps temporarily):
And the other path, not electrified, crossed the Istra River.
Some clarification is needed here. I'm not a fan of climbing in closed areas. However, I was not adequately prepared for the hike, as it later turned out, and did not think that the closed area starts from the bridge itself. Yes, the abandoned bridge was fenced off, but I assumed that this was simply to prevent any amateurs from falling from it. Moreover, there were gates on both sides. There were no identifying signs (later I read that there used to be a “restricted zone” sign, but it had apparently already been torn off). So I wandered straight into the territory of an abandoned military camp. (By the way, for some reason on all the maps the station was indicated on this bank, which also misled me).
Impressive bridge. From a distance it seemed like there was a narrow-gauge railway on it:
Looking back:
Mesh sky:
The tracks behind the bridge were obviously abandoned a long time ago - their condition there is as follows:
I don’t know how to walk this way, so I walked along the shore and further past the buildings. This is what I saw there:
The remains of a path appeared, sharply turning parallel to the river:
Remains of the last crossing (they are also, apparently, the only rails on the territory):
Shed and loading platform:
More buildings:
The last meters of the path are in a recess between two “platforms”.
The Pavlovoslobodskaya branch ended in a small hangar. I looked in there and saw... no, not a diesel locomotive, but a bunch of car tires.
The railway part of the trip is now over. I saw an open gate nearby and joyfully wandered there, thinking that I would go out into the village. Came out. Only, as it turned out, not to the village, but to the active part of this military town, which, to my surprise, turned out to be not so abandoned. I walked a little forward, looked back - some soldier had locked the gate through which I had just passed. However, he didn’t pay attention to me. I was shocked, I looked around the area, but I didn’t see any other options other than walking forward along the same street. I reached the checkpoint, meeting there a couple of soldiers walking in the opposite direction, who also did not pay the slightest attention to me, and without any problems I went outside in a completely freaked out state. A minute later I was already at the bus stop.
In general, I don’t know what to say (except about my own idiocy that led me there). But I won’t go to military installations anymore, excuse me. Luck eventually runs out.
This journey was undertaken based on the memories of my friend and former colleague, Alexander Maksimenko.
In fact, this trip can be called a railway trip conditionally, because the goal of our trip was already quite abandoned and partially dismantled Nakhabino - Pavlovskaya Sloboda branch
2▼ We decided to start exploring the line from the final point, which is located next to the bridge on the map.
3▼ Although the bridge itself is fenced, numerous holes made it clear to us that this was all formal. However, our progress was suddenly stopped by a soldier who was on duty in the vicinity of the bridge on the other side of the river. Apparently, the bridge is under the control of the military unit; it is noticeable with what care everything is painted, including the rails.
4▼ On the right are the remains of the Pavlovskaya Sloboda platform. In front you can see the arrow of the path going towards the bridge to the V/Ch.
5▼ Manual arrow. Somewhere nearby there was a fallen semaphore lying in the grass. As far as I know, today there is nothing at this place that reminds us of the past.
6▼ Railway gradually turns into a pedestrian
7▼ We skipped the Ozerki platform, heading directly to Isakovo
8▼ "Isakovo" platform. The grandmother we met happily shared her memories of the times when “Cuckoo” walked here.
9▼ The schedule is written on the pole. Quite the same as the paper one.
10▼ We return to Nakhabino. To the left you can see the path to Pavlovskaya Sloboda.
11▼ After wandering along the station tracks, we find ourselves on the territory of the Depot. Rumpled.
12▼ The inscriptions are, apparently, fake. Something about the year of construction, 1950, appears under the paint.
13▼ And some kind of garbage train in a distant dead end. We couldn't find anything more interesting there.
14▼ We decide to go towards the Anikeevka platform. An abandoned pioneer camp is discovered in the surrounding thickets.
15▼ And a hellish rusty sawmill
16▼ However, the camp turned out to be inhabited by a pack of wild dogs. We had to refuse further examination.
17▼ We return to our starting position in Nakhabino and move along another branch. On the map it leads to south direction from the station. On the left in the grass are the remains of several more paths.
18▼ Quite quickly the rails disappear and along the road you can hardly discern the remains of an embankment.
19▼ Although, in some places sleepers can be seen under the foliage.
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And here's what's there now...
The legendary scheme of the Riga direction. It's called "who can find the most errors." According to Russian Railways, the line is still operational and belongs to the Greater Moscow District. :)
In fact, it was replaced by buses:
We start by crossing Institutskaya Street in the village. Nakhabino. There are rails here, but they are terribly overgrown, and the catenary consoles have been removed from the poles.
The rails at the crossing are practically rolled into asphalt.
Former crossing duty booth.
One of the few areas where the branch resembles its former self.
Soon the rails break. In the photo - the former square. Parkovaya (Parkovaya-1 according to D. Ivanov, see link above). By the way, the location of the first three bus stops exactly reproduces the location of the former platforms of the line that ran almost parallel.
There is a traffic light near the platform. In good condition: in my opinion, even the lenses are intact. But, looking ahead, he is the only one I discovered.
Next stop. (not indicated on maps):
Here the consoles were not removed:
Next stop is Isakovo:
Some sleepers could not be loaded and were thrown in disarray:
On this section of the line there is now only the following rolling stock:
And here the sleepers remained, only the rails were removed:
From this place (from former move) grew along the branch suburban village, and after dismantling they already managed to lay an asphalt road:
For some reason, the road almost ends at the former Ozerki stopping point:
Immediately behind the platform is a crossing. As usual, the rails remained under the asphalt. And right on the way they erected a billboard.
The asphalt is crap, the rails are coming out from under it.
Here again the road replaced the railway.
And in some places the roadside was paved with sleepers. And was there any desire to turn them over?
Suddenly, rails emerge from the road dust.
The automobile track suppressed the railway track, obviously even before the complete elimination of the branch...
The rails have already been stripped from the wooden sleepers by the inhabitants of another village:
I had to go back and go around to the right. There I came across the remains of a crossing through a certain branch from the station. Pavlovskaya Sloboda:
In the other direction, the remains of the path are immediately lost in impassable thickets.
I pass them along the way. As things progress, the path climbs an embankment and goes behind another fence. It docked at the main track somewhere in a fenced area. Here is the main path to freedom:
Someone sawed the rail, but left it in place (perhaps temporarily):
And the other path, not electrified, crossed the Istra River. Some clarification is needed here. I'm not a fan of climbing in closed areas. However, I was not adequately prepared for the hike, as it later turned out, and did not think that the closed area starts from the bridge itself. Yes, the abandoned bridge was fenced off, but I assumed that this was simply to prevent any amateurs from falling from it. Moreover, there were gates on both sides. There were no identifying signs (later I read that there used to be a “restricted zone” sign, but it had apparently already been torn off). So I wandered straight into the territory of an abandoned military camp. (By the way, for some reason on all the maps the station was indicated on this bank, which also misled me).
Impressive bridge. From a distance it seemed like there was a narrow-gauge railway on it:
Looking back:
Mesh sky:
The tracks behind the bridge were obviously abandoned a long time ago - their condition there is as follows:
I don’t know how to walk this way, so I walked along the shore and further past the buildings. This is what I saw there:
The remains of a path appeared, sharply turning parallel to the river:
Remains of the last crossing (they are also, apparently, the only rails on the territory):
Shed and loading platform:
More buildings:
The last meters of the path are in a recess between two “platforms”.
The Pavlovoslobodskaya branch ended in a small hangar. I looked in there and saw... no, not a diesel locomotive, but a bunch of car tires.
The railway part of the trip is now over. I saw an open gate nearby and joyfully wandered there, thinking that I would go out into the village. Came out. Only, as it turned out, not to the village, but to the active part of this military town, which, to my surprise, turned out to be not so abandoned. I walked a little forward, looked back - some soldier had locked the gate through which I had just passed. However, he didn’t pay attention to me. I was shocked, I looked around the area, but I didn’t see any other options other than walking forward along the same street. I reached the checkpoint, meeting there a couple of soldiers walking in the opposite direction, who also did not pay the slightest attention to me, and without any problems I went outside in a completely freaked out state. A minute later I was already at the bus stop. In general, I don’t know what to say (except about my own idiocy that led me there). But I won’t go to military installations anymore, excuse me. Luck eventually runs out.
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