Savelovsky Railway Station
March 18, 2007
The site for the railway station was selected at the outskirts of Moscow near the Butyrskaya gate. The construction was delayed because of changes of the railway owners. Engineer A.S. Sumarokov was in charge of construction. In particular he is assumed to become the author of the design. The railway station building turned out to be rather modest, basically a single-storeyed structure and only in the center – two-storeyed, it did not even have the front access door from the station square.
On Sunday March 10, 1902 (old style) the station, named Butyrskyi, was consecrated and the first train started form it.
Initially only two pairs of trains ran every day: a passenger train started in the morning and mail train – in the evening. Then 4 pairs of long distance trains started to run from the station: 2 to Rybinsk, and 1 to Uglich and 1 to Leningrad.
The decision to rebuild and refurbish the Savelovsky railway station was taken in 1980s.
On September 1, 1992, 90 years after its construction, the renewed railway station opened wide its doors again. As a result of reconstruction, the station has become a two-storeyed one, has increased the inner space 2.5 times as much, but has not lost its style features. The front of the station was renewed, it was decorated by a clock with a unique face and elegant lights, main entrance was constructed in addition to the two existing ones at the sides of the building.
In 1988 a metro line was laid to the railway station. The entrance to "Savelovskaya" station is situated near the railway station building.
Today Savelovsky railway station is the only Moscow station, from which the long distance trains do not run. Only suburban electric trains connect it with such towns of the region as Dolgoprudny, Lobnya, Yahroma, Dmitrov, Dubna, Taldom.
Recently Savelovsky railway station has started to be used as the terminal for servicing the airports "Sheremetyevo-1 and -2". For the purpose up-to-date outhouses are added to the building, trying not to disturb the existing appearance of the Savelovsky railway station square keeping its building as the center of architectural-stylistic composition.
The direct railway communication is planned to be opened between the Savelovsky railway station and airport "Sheremetyevo" at the end of December 2007. Then it will only take thirty minutes to get from Moscow to Sheremetyevo by a comfortable electric train, which is much faster than by motor transport.
