The Lakhtinsky crossover is a railroad line that crosses the

Lakhtinsky Razliv Lake Lakhta (Russian: Лахтинский разлив; ''Lakhtinsky razliv''; from Finnish ''lahti'', 'gulf') is a lake (or inlet) in St. Petersburg's Primorsky District connected to the Neva Bay of the Baltic Sea by the 500-meter-long Bobyl ...

lake in

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. For the first stage of the

Primorskaya line The Primorskaya line was the second line constructed by the Primorskaya railway, near St. Petersburg, Russia. It is now part of the Oktyabrskaya Railway and was electrified in 1952. History Its first stage was opened on July 12, 1894 - the li ...

on the route from Novaya Derevnya to Lakhta, it was necessary to cross lake

Construction

Engineer P. A. Avenarius constructed the crossover in 1894. It was a pile bridge which paralleled the Lakhtinsky dam on which there was a road. Near to the bridge, Shunting loop Dum and Shunting loop 2 verst were constructed. The bridge opened July 12, 1894.

Destruction and rebuilding

Catastrophic flooding on September 23, 1924 completely destroyed the bridge. It was restored in 1925 at its current location.

Current structure

As of 2009, the bridge is a metal one-span girder bridge, constructed from box-shaped beams on stone foundations.

References

Railway bridges in Saint Petersburg {{SaintPetersburg-stub