Siverskaya (station)

The territory occupied by the station was part of the Siversky Manor , owned by Baroness S.P. Cherkasova. In 1855, 20 acres of land was bought into the treasury for the construction of the Petersburg-Warsaw Railway and the construction of the Siverskaya station. The opening of traffic on the Gatchina-Luga section took place on December 5, 1857 ^[2] . Siverskaya was the fourth station from St. Petersburg after Alexandrovskaya , Gatchina and Suida . The opening of the station gave a powerful impetus to the development of the Siverskaya suburban area ^[3] .

A small wooden station building was built in 1860 at the expense of B. F. Fredericks (before that there was only a wooden platform) ^[4] . In the 1890s VB Fredericks financed the construction of a new station building with an indoor platform, a summer passenger pavilion, the station manager’s house, a medical center building, a separate buffet building with open verandas and a garden. Near the station there were a tavern, a hotel, a market, a manufactory shop, private trading houses and shops. Along the railway track were located forest exchanges and storage facilities ^{[5] [6]} .

In 1882, the head of the station, A. A. Dressen, a well-known dacha owner and benefactor, built a stone chapel in the name of St. Prince in memory of the martyrdom of Alexander II . Alexander Nevsky ^[7] . V. B. Fredericks donated icons and church property from the abolished house church of the Siversky Manor. In 1919 it was closed. A monument to K. Marx was erected near the chapel. In 1924, a storage room was arranged in the chapel, then a summer restaurant. In the late 1930s. it was demolished, and in its place a flower garden was arranged ^[8] .

In the 1970s a new station building and an underground pedestrian crossing were built. In 2008, the station was overhauled ^[9] . In the preserved central part of the building of the old station is a grocery store ^[3] .

The station has a waiting room with ticket offices and an underground pedestrian crossing. The station has stops of a significant number of suburban bus routes. To the north of the station is the P40 Kempolovo - Shapki highway crossing.

At the station, all suburban electric trains passing through it stop (40-42 pairs per day), except for those going to Pskov (one pair per day). Trains in the direction from St. Petersburg to Luga arrive at the western side platform. Trains in the direction from Luga to St. Petersburg arrive at the island platform. For a part of electric trains, the Siverskaya station is the final stop; they arrive and depart from the eastern side platform.

The long-distance train Saint Petersburg - Riga followed through the station without stopping until 2016. An average of 12 pairs of freight trains daily go through the station. The station is used for sludge transit cars (per day - up to 100 cars).

The main customer of the freight station is the BIC construction company engaged in the production of paving slabs. Loading station: 2-3 wagons per day (irregularly). The shunting locomotive is assigned to the Gatchina-Tovarnaya station.

With the start of the construction of the Nord Stream - 2 Gryazovets - Ust-Luga gas pipeline section, the station accepts wagons with pipes of diameters of 1420 mm.

Near the station are the historical and household museum " Country Capital" , as well as the Museum of the history of Siverskaya, the Museum of the history of Siversky airfield ^[10] . From 1964 to 2009, the prominent composer I. I. Schwartz lived near the station, and from 2011 the I. I. Schwartz House-Museum has been operating ^[11] .

The station is completely laid on concrete. It has 2 main, 6 receiving and 5 access roads. Turnouts - 40 (including 3 manual “arrows”).

Station staff - 7 employees.

• The head of the station is Tsygankova Irina Aleksandrovna (also heads the station of Stroganovo).
• Station attendants - 5
• Receiver of cargo and baggage - 1

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  Station building (1900s)

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  Covered Commodity Platform (1912)

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  A plaque on the station building dedicated to the liberation of the village during World War II.

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  Moving north of the station

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  Entrance to the underground pedestrian crossing from the island platform

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  An electric train to Petersburg arrives at the platform

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  Signs with the station name: old - on the island platform, new - on the eastern side