Shushary station development

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Развитие станции Шушары

Shushary is a marshalling yard in the Vitebsk direction of the Oktyabrskaya Railway (OZhD). This is one of the largest marshalling yards on OZD. The station was opened in 1838 on the Tsarskoye Selo railway and became the first railway siding in Russia.

In accordance with the plant development project prepared by Lengiprotans, the following works were carried out:
• additional tracks were laid in the reception park;
• tracks in the sorting yard were lengthened by 4.2 km;
• mechanized hump with the equipment of its devices GAC (automatic hump centralization);
• a new mechanized cargo yard was built at the station.