This trip was based on the memories of my friend and former colleague, Alexander Maksimenko.
In fact, this trip can be called a railroad conditionally, because the purpose of our trip was already by that time a decently abandoned and partially disassembled branch of Nakhabino - Pavlovskaya Sloboda
2 ▼ We decided to start our survey of the branch from the final point, which is located next to the bridge on the map.
3 ▼ Although the bridge itself is fenced, numerous holes made us understand that all this is 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 authority of the military unit, it is noticeable with what diligence everything was painted, including the rails.
4 ▼ Remains of the Pavlovskaya Sloboda platform on the right. In front, you can see the arrow of the path going off in the direction of the bridge to the military unit.
5 ▼ Hand arrow. Somewhere nearby in the grass lay a fallen semaphore. As far as I know, today nothing reminds of the past at this place.
6 ▼ The railway is gradually turning into a pedestrian
7 ▼ We skipped the Ozerki platform, heading directly to Isakovo
8 ▼ "Isakovo" platform. The grandmother we met was happy to share her memories of the times when "Cuckoo" went here.
9 ▼ The timetable is written on the post. It is quite the same as the paper one.
10 ▼ Back to Nakhabino. To the left you can see the path to Pavlovskaya Sloboda.
11 ▼ After wandering along the tracks of the station, we find ourselves on the territory of the Depot. Rumpled.
12 ▼ The inscriptions seem to be 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 could not find anything more interesting there.
14 ▼ We decide to go towards the Anikeevka platform. An abandoned pioneer camp is found in the surrounding thickets.
15 ▼ And a hell of a rusty sawmill
16 ▼ However, the camp turned out to be inhabited by a pack of wild dogs. Further examination had to be abandoned.
17 ▼ We return to the starting position in Nakhabino and move along another branch. On the map, it leads south from the station. On the left in the grass are the remains of several more paths.
18 ▼ The rails disappear rather quickly and it is difficult to distinguish the remains of the embankment along the road.
19 ▼ Although, in some places under the foliage you can see sleepers.
The promised continuation of the report on the Saturday march to Pavlovskaya Sloboda along the dismantled railway line. Beginning here: Let me remind you that that time I stopped at the Ozerki platform.
Moving right behind the platform. As usual, the rails remained under the asphalt. And right on the way, they erected a billboard.
The asphalt is lousy, the rails are crawling out from under it.
Here again the road was replaced by the railroad.
And the roadside was paved with sleepers in some places. And the hunt was to turn them over?
Suddenly, rails emerge from the road dust.
The car track suppressed the iron track clearly even before the complete elimination of the branch ...
The inhabitants of the next village have already lifted the rails from the wooden sleepers:
I had to go back and go around on the right. There I came across the remains of a crossing through a branch from the station. Pavlovskaya Sloboda:
In the other direction, the rest of the path is immediately lost in impassable thickets.
I go around them on the way. Along the way, the path rises to the embankment and goes beyond the next fence. He docked to the main path somewhere in a fenced area. Here is the main path crawled out to freedom:
Someone sawed the rail but left it in place (perhaps temporarily):
And another path, non-electrified, crossed the Istra River.
Some clarification is needed here. I am not a fan of climbing in closed areas. However, I did not properly prepare for the hike, as it turned out later, and did not think that the closed area starts from the bridge itself. Yes, the abandoned bridge was fenced off, but I assumed it was just so that all sorts of amateurs would not fall from it. Moreover, the gates were on both sides. There were no identification marks (later I read that there used to be a "restricted area" sign, but it had apparently already been torn off). So I wandered straight into the territory of an abandoned military town. (By the way, on all maps for some reason the station was marked on this coast, which also misled me).
An impressive bridge. From a distance it seemed that it was a narrow-gauge railway:
Looking back:
Mesh sky:
The paths behind the bridge were obviously abandoned a long time ago - their condition there is as follows:
I do not know how to follow this path, so I walked along the coast and further past the buildings. Here's what I saw there:
Remains of a path appeared, turning sharply parallel to the river:
Remains of the last crossing (they are apparently the only rails on the territory):
Barn and loading platform:
More buildings:
The last meters of the way are in the cut between the two "platforms".
The Pavlovslobodskaya 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 journey to this end is over. I saw the open gate nearby and happily walked 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 around - some soldier locked the gate through which I had just passed. However, he did not pay attention to me. I was shocked, surveyed the surroundings, but I did not see any other options but to walk 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 went outside in a completely fucking state. In a minute I was already at the bus stop.
In general, I do not know what to say (except about my own idiocy, which led me there). But I won't go to military facilities anymore, thank you. Luck comes to an end sometime.
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But what is there now ...
The legendary scheme of the Riga direction. It is called "who finds more mistakes." According to Russian Railways, the line is still operational and belongs to the Bolshaya Moscow District. :)
In fact - it was replaced by buses:
We start from the crossing through Institutskaya street, village. Nakhabino. Here the rails lie, but they are terribly overgrown, and the consoles of the contact network 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 off. In the photo - the former pl. Parkovaya (Parkovaya-1 according to D. Ivanov, see the link above). By the way, the location of the first three bus stops exactly reproduces the location of the former platforms that ran almost parallel to the branch.
There is a traffic light near the platform. In fair condition: in my opinion, even the lenses are intact. But, looking ahead, he was the only one I discovered.
Next stopping point. (not indicated on maps):
Here the consoles were not removed:
The next stopping point is Isakovo:
Some sleepers could not be loaded, so they were thrown in disarray:
On this section of the line, there is now only such rolling stock:
And here the sleepers remained, only the rails were removed:
From this place (from the former crossing) a summer cottage settlement grew along the branch, and after dismantling, they already managed to lay an asphalt road:
For some reason, the road practically ends at the former stopping point of Ozerki:
Moving right behind the platform. As usual, the rails remained under the asphalt. And right on the way, they erected a billboard.
The asphalt is lousy, the rails are crawling out from under it.
Here again the road was replaced by the railroad.
And the roadside was paved with sleepers in some places. And the hunt was to turn them over?
Suddenly, rails emerge from the road dust.
The car track suppressed the iron track clearly even before the complete elimination of the branch ...
The inhabitants of the next village have already lifted the rails from the wooden sleepers:
I had to go back and go around on the right. There I came across the remains of a crossing through a branch from the station. Pavlovskaya Sloboda:
In the other direction, the rest of the path is immediately lost in impassable thickets.
I go around them on the way. Along the way, the path rises to the embankment and goes beyond the next fence. He docked to the main path somewhere in a fenced area. Here is the main path crawled out to freedom:
Someone sawed the rail but left it in place (perhaps temporarily):
And another path, non-electrified, crossed the Istra River. Some clarification is needed here. I am not a fan of climbing in closed areas. However, I did not properly prepare for the hike, as it turned out later, and did not think that the closed area starts from the bridge itself. Yes, the abandoned bridge was fenced off, but I assumed it was just so that all sorts of amateurs would not fall from it. Moreover, the gates were on both sides. There were no identification marks (later I read that there used to be a "restricted area" sign, but it had apparently already been torn off). So I wandered straight into the territory of an abandoned military town. (By the way, on all maps for some reason the station was marked on this coast, which also misled me).
An impressive bridge. From a distance it seemed that it was a narrow-gauge railway:
Looking back:
Mesh sky:
The paths behind the bridge were obviously abandoned a long time ago - their condition there is as follows:
I do not know how to follow this path, so I walked along the coast and further past the buildings. Here's what I saw there:
Remains of a path appeared, turning sharply parallel to the river:
Remains of the last crossing (they are apparently the only rails on the territory):
Barn and loading platform:
More buildings:
The last meters of the journey are in the recess between the two "platforms".
The Pavlovslobodskaya 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 journey to this end is over. I saw the open gate nearby and happily walked 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 around - some soldier locked the gate through which I had just passed. However, he did not pay attention to me. I was shocked, surveyed the surroundings, but I did not see any other options but to walk 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 went outside in a completely fucking state. In a minute I was already at the bus stop. In general, I do not know what to say (except about my own idiocy, which led me there). But I won't go to military facilities anymore, thank you. Luck comes to an end sometime.
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