Published On Aug 4, 2024
0:00 Luga-1 Station. Luga city, Leningrad Oblast. 8 hours in the life of the St. Petersburg-Warsaw railway, 25.07.2024. On this day, a technological window was provided on the Vitebsk direction (major track repairs on the Novinka - Chashcha section). Therefore, the St. Petersburg - Gomel train follows an altered route on the Luga - Batetskaya section.
0:15 Electric locomotives 2ES4K-018, VL10U-562. Diesel locomotives 2TE116U-0140, 2TE116-1496. Shunting locomotive TEM18V-001
2:47 Southern park of Luga-1 station. End of the catenary. Electric locomotive VL10U-381. 137/138 km from the former Warsaw Station.
3:28 Inside the railway station building
3:47 Fountain
3:52 Bus station. Bus route No. 903 Krasnogorodsk - St. Petersburg. Neoplan N122/3L Skyliner in the kingdom of PAZ buses.
7:02 High platform for commuter trains departing towards St. Petersburg. Electric train ET2-8009 - commuter train No. 6116 Luga - St. Petersburg. Electric train ED4M-0129.
7:49 Rosinka stop (platform). Stroganovo - Mshinskaya section
9:08 View towards Mshinskaya station, overpass in the distance - R-23 highway St. Petersburg - Pskov.
9:20 Rosinka stop. 101 kilometers from the former Warsaw Station.
10:14 Express train No. 812 Pskov - St. Petersburg. Electric train ES1P-004 "Lastochka" (Swallow).
10:50 Electric locomotive VL10U-858 with a freight train - immediately after the Lastochka, towards it.
12:16 Bus stop "Rosinka Platform".
12:31 Commuter train No. 6119 St. Petersburg - Luga. Electric train ED4M-0031, heading to Luga.
13:20 Mshinskaya - Tolmachevo section. Oncoming electric train ED4M-0443 - commuter train No. 6120 Luga - St. Petersburg departing at 15:34 from Luga.
13:54 Tolmachevo station.
16:31 Luga River.
16:46 General Omelchenko passing loop. VL10U-562.
18:09 Luga-1 station. Electric locomotive VL10-1698.
19:41 ED4M-0031 leaves for the storage track
19:52 2TE116U-0140, TEM18V-001 coupled with VL10U-381. Diesel locomotive 2TE116-1103 passes by.
21:00 Express commuter train No. 7453 St. Petersburg - Luga arrives at 16:41. Electric train ES2G-123 Lastochka. At 16:56 it will depart as express commuter train No. 7456 Luga - St. Petersburg - a crowd of passengers is waiting for it.
22:57 TEM18V-001, Lastochka Luga - St. Petersburg.
24:27 Express train No. 083A St. Petersburg - Gomel. Departure from St. Petersburg at 14:54. The train arrived at Utorgosh station at 18:45 and entered its regular schedule (departure from St. Petersburg on regular days at 16:10). Carrier - Belarusian Railways (BCh). Russian Railways diesel locomotive TEP70BS-299.
25:20 Park near the station, fountain.
26:02 Cats, Tolmachev Lane
27:23 One of the oldest buildings in the city - merchant M.P. Usachev's bathhouse from 1894.
27:32 Peace Square
27:45 Electric locomotive VL10U-381 in the southern park of Luga-1 station.
28:18 Washroom in the railway station building, waiting room.
29:32 Branch tracks (lines)
29:59 Diesel locomotive 2TE116-1078 (BaltTransService)
31:34 Electric train ED4M-0070 - commuter train No. 6129 St. Petersburg - Luga arrives. ED4M-0298 is standing nearby.
33:30 2TE116U-0113
34:10 ED4M-0298 - commuter train No. 6132 Luga - St. Petersburg
35:35 Electric locomotive VL10U-381 with a freight train.
38:01 Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, cat
38:28 Meeting of freight trains. Diesel locomotives 2TE25KM-0330 and 2TE116UD-014
41:24 2TE116-428 with containers
45:18 Freight train with two locomotives arrived in the southern park. Electric locomotive VL10-1698 is heading towards the northern park.
45:41 Signaling about the approach of an odd-numbered train and arrival of commuter train No. 6508 Pskov - Luga. Diesel-electric train DT1-008. Electric locomotive VL10U-858, diesel locomotives 2TE116U-0107 and 2TE116U-0140
49:24 Bus route No. 903 St. Petersburg - Krasnogorodsk
50:04 Express train No. 814 Pskov - St. Petersburg. Diesel locomotive TEP70BS-366 - the newest TEP70BS in operation at the time of filming. Built in April 2024. Electric train Lastochka ES1P-006
51:51 2TE25KM-0347. Uncoupling the locomotive from the Lastochka
53:45 Inside the station building
54:36 Express train No. 814 Pskov - St. Petersburg departs.
56:07 TEP70BS-366 is waiting for the oncoming Lastochka to Pskov. Electric locomotive VL10U-858.
58:34 Express train No. 813 St. Petersburg - Pskov. ES1P-008
59:28 Inside the Lastochka. Departure to Pskov
1:03:21 Freight train from Batetskaya station, line to Veliky Novgorod
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