Electrification of the Obukhovo - Mga - Volkhovstroy section

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Электрификация участка Обухово — Мга — Волховстрой

The Obukhovo - Mga - Volkhovstroy railway line is a section of the Volkhovstroyevsky direction of the Oktyabrskaya railway.

The line was electrified according to the Lengiprotrans project as part of the transfer to electric traction of the suburban directions of the St. Petersburg railway junction.

The plots were electrified for DC voltage of 3 kV in the following order:
in 1964 - Obukhovo - Mga (38 km);
in 1965 - Mga - Volkhovstroy (75 km).