Roundhouse

Today we go to the photo-tour in Tver locomotive depot. It was built in 1851 as the main depot Petersburg-Moscow railway, in a complex which also were built service building, brick warehouse, oil station, water tower. Round the depot at the station "Tver" is calculated on 22 stalls. By now preserved only in the way some of them, the others are located in the auxiliary workshops and offices. The length of the turntable is 25 meters.

Workshop locomotive depot in Tver, TCHR-3, Tverskaya Station

But before that, not long look at the Tver Railway Museum. a walk through the halls of the Museum Railways in Tver. We will not stay there long, and immediately move on to the examination of the Tver locomotive depot.

Museum Tver railroad. This museum - the result of combining Kalinin railroad museum and the Museum of History of the locomotive depot Kalinin. He is now located at the address: Tver, Tver Station Street. Railwaymen, d. 30

and now in custody ...

Turntable locomotive depot Tver (as indeed, the building and construction) can be attributed to the historical values of the October Railway and the Tver region. On the leading locomotive enterprise department, he served uninterruptedly since 1939. It was only in November 2006, he was replaced by the more advanced. A more accurate placement of locomotives at stalls round the depot building and ensuring an uninterrupted supply of locomotives for the repair and renovation of their production has allowed to provide the most reliable shunting work at the Moscow branch of the October railway.