Voronezh-Pridacha: the past, the future and the present

In 2017 another railway station will start operating in Voronezh. The project will be implemented on the site of the Voronezh-Pridacha railway station. This is due to the fact that the old station is no longer able to cope with its functions. According to M. Akulov, the vice-president of Russian Railways, Voronezh-Pridacha station will receive not only a new look, but also a new name "Voronezh-Yuzhny".

Concept

The new station will occupy an impressive area, the size of which will exceed one thousand square meters. The renovation project of the Voronezh-Pridacha railway station took into account both technical aspects and wishes related to the development of the passenger infrastructure of the station.

The capacity of the waiting room to be built together with the new building of the station "Voronezh-Pridacha" will be five hundred people. Next to it will be deployed a food reception area in the format of a food court.

Transport accessibility

The creators of the innovative project and about motorists thought. For them, the railway station "Pridacha-Voronezh" will acquire a modern parking lot designed for several hundred cars. A viaduct will appear, which will connect the station to the districts of Voronezh, VAI and the Left Bank.

In the current year, about fifty million rubles have been allocated to the Voronezh-Pridach station. Representatives of the company RZhD and the administration of the city of Voronezh are actively searching for sponsors, as well as sources of additional financing for the project. It will take three hundred million rubles.

Prehistory

The first attempts to build a new railway station in Voronezh at the site of the station "Pridacha" were made several years ago. But then, in 2014, they failed because of the banal shortage of funds to implement even the first phase of the project.

At the moment, in view of the construction of a new high-speed railway, which will connect the cities of Adler and Moscow, the project got a second wind. A high-speed branch will pass through Voronezh. This means that its maintenance will require additional capacity.

Modern realities

It's too early to say that the new Voronezh-Yuzhny station is under construction. But the available today the area is actively upgraded and repaired. The station has long needed not only cosmetic, but also fundamental repairs.

The traffic intensity of long-distance trains and suburban electric trains serviced by Voronezh-Main is inferior to that taken by Pridach (Voronezh). The timetable is a superfluous proof of that.

Most of the passenger trains heading south, such as Anapa, Adler, Sochi, Novorossiysk, Yeysk, Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, pass through the railway station "Pridacha".

On the platform of Voronezh-Main, located in the heart of the metropolis, only brand trains stop. Speed compositions also move through the "Giving".

In search of an alternative

Despite the fact that the possibility to upgrade the railway station "Pridacha" is reviewed annually, the administration of RZhD has studied a number of alternative solutions that could meet the needs of the Moscow-Adler high-speed branch.

As a reference point, a railway station was considered in the small village of Latnoye, which is located a few kilometers from Voronezh. This plan was called "Western".

According to him, the railway lines were to round Semiluki, another settlement in the Voronezh region. The project was rejected because of the abundance of natural areas that are protected by the state and lie in the way of the high-speed highway.

The second plan proposed to build a high-speed highway directly in the city of Voronezh. On the Left Bank of the megalopolis, in Zheleznodorozhny district, where the transport interchange is located behind the hypermarket Metro, overlooking the federal highway "Don", the railway branch was supposed to grow.

The remoteness of the object from the center of the city, as well as the presence of dense residential development in this part of the Left Bank, did not allow the second alternative plan to be realized in reality either.

Optimum was recognized the very, most widely discussed option. The station "Pridacha" in Voronezh will become a new railway station, which will connect Moscow and Adler. In this case, the decoupling will be built in the area of the operating Ostuzhevsky Automobile Ring.

Forward to the Future

Once the project is implemented, the journey time from Voronezh to Adler will be only five and a half hours. Today, passenger trains require at least sixteen hours for this. The road from Voronezh to Moscow will take two and a half hours instead of six.

The maximum speed that a train will develop on the Moscow-Adler highway will be four hundred kilometers per hour. The high-speed highway is not the only surprise that the leadership of Russian Railways has prepared for residents of Voronezh. Perhaps, very soon the light metro line will work in the city.

She will connect the airport in Chertovitsk, the new Voronezh-Yuzhny railway station and the metropolitan center. The reconstruction and redevelopment of the existing Voronezh-Main railway station is another topic for conversation.

According to the idea of urban architects, the station and the adjacent territory, sooner or later they will change their appearance beyond recognition. In fact, the station should be born again, and its former residents will be reminded of the famous facade, symbol and landmark of modern Voronezh.