Railway station in Tula
Tula or Moskovsky Rail Terminal (Russian: Московский вокзал) is a railway station in Tula, Russia. It was opened in 1867.[1][2]
History
On November 11, 1867 railway service opened between Moscow and Tula. In 1864 the construction of the Moscow-Kursk railway began. On December 28, 1864 the government announced the continuation of the railway from Serpukhov through Tula to Orel and Kursk.[3]
In 1867 a bridge was built across the Oka (engineer – Amand Struve). By 1868 the construction of the railway bridge over the Upu was completed.[3]
In the middle of the XIX century the station square was considered the outskirts of Tula.[3]
On September 7, 1868 the Kursk Railway Station building was opened. At the beginning of the XX century the Kursk railway station received a stone building.[3]
In 1914-1916 a military hospital for soldiers wounded on the fronts of the First World War worked at the Kursk railway station in Tula.[3]
In 1954 Soviet architects developed a project for the reconstruction of the station. A restaurant and a police station appeared there. In the XXI century another reconstruction took place.[3]
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