Central Station - a railway station , proposed for construction in Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century as a single station instead of several available ones.
Description
The location of the station was proposed in the very center of the city near the Kremlin and Red Square . The station was supposed to be connected to railway lines of all directions from Moscow and integrated into the system of metro lines.
Project Options
The first of the projects - the Society of the Ryazan-Ural Railway and engineer A.I. Antonovich from 1901 and engineers N.I. Golinevich and N.P. Dmitriev from 1902 - envisaged the placement of the Central Station in the Alexander Garden .
Another project of the Central Station near the Kremlin from Alexandrovsky to Lubyansky Gardens, combined with the main metro station, in 1902 was proposed by engineer and entrepreneur P. I. Balinsky with the participation of engineer E. K. Knorre, considered by the Moscow City Council and rejected due to the high cost of implementation and public protests.
Under the 1911 project of engineer E.K. Knorre, the underground Central Passenger Station between Teatralny and Neglinny Passages and the Central Commodity Station on Okhotny Ryad were to be built.
Another project of the Central Station and leading private railways was proposed in 1912 by Russian entrepreneurs Y. I. Utkin, A. I. Vyshnegradsky, A. I. Guchkov, A. I. Gennert and the American G. D. Hoff. The station was supposed to be located on Okhotny Ryad between Sofia and Theater Passages and to serve all passenger trains going to Moscow, as well as freight trains heading to enterprises in the city center.
In 1913, the Moscow City Duma decided to build a system of underground-overhead lines for electric trains of the suburban-urban metro without creating a Central Station; the plan was not implemented due to the world war and revolution .
In 1919, A. V. Shchusev, in the New Moscow project, proposed creating a large Central Station on the basis of the Kalanchevskaya station and also connecting Leningradsky and Yaroslavsky to the new station.
In the future, projects to create a single Central Station were not proposed.