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Miller's railway
Russian: Железная дорога Миллера
The railway and station on the sea coast at Miller's pierOverview Type Heavy rail System Commuter passenger railway Status Local Locale Sestroretsk, Russia Termini Sestroretsk
Beloostrov, Miller's pierStations 3 Services Sestroretsk – Beloostrov
Sestroretsk – Miller's pierOperation Opened 1873 Closed 1886 Owner Societies of the Sestroretsk railway Operator(s) Societies of the Sestroretsk railway Character Michael Ivanovich Miller Rolling stock Leased from Finnish railways Technical Line length 9.5 km (5.90 mi) Track gauge 1,524 mm (5 ft) Route map LegendSocieties of the Sestroretsk railway,
Miller's line (1873-1886)Legendline Vyborg line Vyborg Zelenogorsk Solnechnoye 5.8 5.9 Sestra crossover 6.3 6.6 Beloostrov line Vyborg line Finlyandsky Rail Term. Lanskaya Pesochny Sestra river 2.3 1.8 Trackside 1871-1886 line SPb-Sestr.-Beloostrov Kurort Planned ferry line 2.9 Miller's pier Gulf of Finland Trackside line SPb-Sestr.-Beloostrov Kurort 2.2 Sestroretsky kurort 1.7 1.0 0.8 0.6 0.5 Factory bridge Zav. s. 0.2 0.0 Sestroretsk railway station Sestroretsk (1871-1924) Sestroretsk armory lake Rasliw planned trackside Vodoslivnoy channel 1.7 Sestroretsk 1.7 Line Dubki horse-iron road Sestroretsk armory (1847-before 1870) Dubkovsky pier 2.1 Liteyny bridge 3.5 Razliv 3.6 line SPb-Sestr.-Beloostrov Finlyandsky Rail Term. Novaya derevnya Tarkhovka 5.7 Tarkhovka pier Ships to Saint Petersburg (Gulf of Finland)
Miller's line railroad line includes Sestroretsk spur lineSocieties of the Sestroretsk railway
Russian: частное "Общество Сестрорецкой железной дороги"
Miller's pier railway stationLocale Sestroretsk, Russia Dates of operation 1873–1886 Predecessor Finnish railways Successor Primorskaya railroad,
Zavodskaya lineTrack gauge 1,524 mm (5 ft) Length 9.5 km Headquarters Sestroretsk Miller's line was a passenger railway line in Russia from 1873 to 1886, run by the Finnish Railways VR Group. The line ran from Beloostrov to Sestroretsk, and was the site of the world's first functional electric railway.
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Organisation
The private organisation Societies of the Sestroretsk Railway was established to control the railway, headed by Collegiate Assessor Moritz von-Dezen and Titular counsellor Michael Ivanovich Miller. It had been built for the military as the Sestroretsk spur line.
There were plans to build a station three versts (approximately three kilometres) from Sestroretsk, on the bank of Sestroretsk Bay, and also an additional branch line to the Tarhovsky pier, where an operational station already existed.[1]
Experiments with electrification
In 1875, on an area between Miller's pier and Sestroretsk rail station, the engineer Fyodor Pirotsky experimented on the adaptation of rail transport to be driven by an electrogalvanic cell. These experiments later led to a patent "For an electric way of transfer of forces on rail and other conductors", that is, for the creation of the first electric tram.
The experimental area consisted of a site with an extent of 3½ versts (3.73 km), which passed along the sand of beach for a large part of its length,[1] with rail cars travelling distances of over one kilometre.
The system used the rails as conductors for electricity transmission; one rail carried the direct current, and the second rail functioned as a return wire. After establishing the necessary connections on the joints between the rails, the transmission of electricity was successfully carried out.
Pirotsky stated that current leakage to the earth was not appreciable, and the transfer efficiency was calculated to be acceptable. Expenses for the adaptation of existing railways to electricity transmission were determined to be insignificant – from 50 to 100 roubles per verst.[1]
Closure
In 1877 the line operated four pairs of trains. They primarily served residents during the summer period, while in the winter they were only used by officials.
The recorded volume of patronage was very insignificant because of a disputed tariff policy of Finnish railways, and ultimately the Miller's pier station was left idle.[1] As a result the operators appeared to be in a disastrous financial position, and the majority of the proposed plans were left incomplete.
By the mid-1880s the Society of the Sestroretsk railway was definitively ruined, and on January 1, 1886, the railway was closed.[1]
See also
- Sestroretsk spur line
References
- ^ a b c d e Chepurin, Sergey; Arkady Nikolayenko (May 2007). "Sestroretsk and Primorskaya railways(Сестрорецкая и Приморская железные дороги)" (in ru). http://terijoki.spb.ru/trk_about.php3. http://terijoki.spb.ru/railway/rw_dir_sestr.php#red. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
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