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1-01a.
The Main Railroad Station.
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1-01b.
Pivokzalnaya Ul.
The former tramway loop near the Main Railroad Station encircled a small city block. Trams ran here from the day of the opening of the system on November 07, 1932, until the last day of operation on December 07, 2001. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-02.
Zheleznodorozhniy Per. / Skvoznoy Per.
The railroad underpass leading to the Main Railroad Station is of special note, as trams squeezed through the narrow 2-lane opening in a mixed mode, together with all other traffic. This underpass served as the only direct connection between the Station and the city center, until a long-awaited viaduct was opened near by in 2007. (2005, the Shakhty municipality) |
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1-03.
Skvoznoy Per. / Lenina Ul.
KTM-8 48. Line 5, 1-e Peresechenie-bound. Tram en-route from the Main Railroad Station toward the city center. This photo is taken a year and half prior to the closure of the system. Tram patronage is evidently negligent. 48 is one of four KTM-8 cars delivered to the city in 1993/1994, the last cars to be delivered here. (11 Apr 2000, Aare Olander) |
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1-04.
Sovetskaya Ul. / Chernokozova Ul.
The principle tramway junction (and the only one in the city after the closure of the south-north Shakhta 'Proletarskoy Diktatury' extension in 1976) two years after the system closed. The line branching off to viewer's left led to Shakhta 'Yuzhnaya' and Shakhta 'Nezhdannaya'; the line proceeding straight ahead went to Vokzal; and the branch to the right was the access track to the new Depot, opened at the Trolleybus Depot in 1997 (remaining tracks are still visible). (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-05.
Karla Marksa Pr. / Sovetskaya Ul.
ZiU-VMZ-100 trolleybus 16. Line 1, Avtovokzal-bound. During the period when trams were already gone, but trolleybuses were still carrying on, a trolleybus serving Line 1 crosses the former tramway line. The tracks at the intersection were inbedded into rail crossing buffer pads. As of the date of this photo, these were the only tram tracks that remained on the main Sovetskaya Ul. - the rest of the tracks were already ripped out. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-06.
Bolshaya Ul. (nowadays Sovetskaya Ul.) / Klimenko Pr.
Trams of 'Kh' type working the city's main tramline during the first years of operation. Only one modern building is yet built amid predominantly wooden houses that lined the street; only one automobile is visible. [This photo does not enlarge.] (1930s, the Shakhty municipality) |
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1-07a.
Sovetskaya Ul. / Krasnoy Armii Pr.
KTM-5M3 45. Line 5, 1-e Peresechenie-bound. The line via city's main thoroughfare, Sovetskaya Ul., was laid in mixed traffic, although the tramway right-of-way was hardly possible for cars. A beat up tram passes amid grand buildings upon approaching the central-most section of the street. As of the date of this photo 45 is only nine years old, delivered in 1991. The system still has about a year and half to go, but this tram will fall apart before that. (11 Apr 2000, Aare Olander) |
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1-07b.
Sovetskaya Ul. / Lenina Pl.
KTM-5M3 74. Line 4, 1-e Peresechenie-bound. Tram passes through the city's main Lenin Square. This sturdy car had a uniquely long life by local standards. It was delivered in 1980 and firstly operated under fleet number 58, then renumbered 74, and later renumbered yet again into 35. It survived almost to the end of tramway operation. (23 Jun 1992, Wilfried Wolf, from Aare Olander collection) |
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1-08a.
Bolshaya Ul. (nowadays Sovetskaya Ul.) / Pobedy Revolyutsii Pr.
Construction of a tramway line a year prior to tramway's opening. This photo is made from the church bell tower that previously existed at the city's main intersection. Tracks are beginning to curve around the tower upon approaching the intersection. The camera is pointed west, toward Vokzal. The site of the future Lenin Square is to the immediate right. (1931, the Shakhty municipality) |
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1-08b.
Pobedy Revolyutsii Pr. / Sovetskaya Ul.
KTM+KTP-1. Line 2, Vokzal-bound. A rare photo of a tramway junction at the city's main intersection during the time when the south-north Shakhta 'Proletarskoy Diktatury' extension still operated. The tracks the tram in this photo operates on will be removed in 1976, as this tramline will be replaced with trolleybuses. The grand building facing Lenin Square was supposed to be the Communist Party headquarters for the short-lived Kamenskaya Oblast (Region) that existed between 11.1954 and 1957, with the city of Shakhty as a regional capital. The building was finished after the Oblast was dissolved, and now houses a university. (1959, the Shakhty municipality) |
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1-08c.
Sovetskaya Ul. / Pobedy Revolyutsii Pr.
KTM-5M3 15. Line 1, Shakhta 'Oktyabrskoy Revolyutsii'-bound. Tram crosses city's main intersection and a trolleybus line via Pobedy Revolyutsii Pr., served by trolleybus Lines 3, 4 and 7. The greenery of the main Lenin Square is in the background. The above mentioned church bell tower used to be located right at this intersection. (23 Jun 1992, Harald Kuchwalek, from Aare Olander collection) |
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1-08d.
Sovetskaya Ul. / Pobedy Revolyutsii Pr.
KTM-5M3 43. Line 5, Vokzal-bound. Another tram crosses the same intersection in the opposing direction. The entire eastern stretch of the line via Sovetskaya Ul. is in the background. This is the last known image of Shakhty tram in operation. As of the date of this photo, trams have 5 months to go. Car 43, delivered in 1991, will make it to the last day of tramway operation. (10 Jul 2001, Stefan Spengler, from Aare Olander collection) |
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1-08e.
Sovetskaya Ul., the Pobedy Revolyutsii Pr. Stop.
KTM-8 47. Line 4, 1-e Peresechenie-bound. The first of a batch of four KTM-8 cars delivered to the city in 1993/1994. Car 47 in this photo is still three years old, and is relatively new; the 2nd door, however, is not working already. Tram patronage in 1996 was still relatively high. The Krasniy Shakhtyor Per. Terminal of the very first Vokzal - City Center tramline, opened on November 07, 1932, was located in the vicinity of this very tram stop. (10 Sep 1996, Aare Olander) |
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1-08f.
Sovetskaya Ul. / Pobedy Revolyutsii Pr.
KTM-8 47. Line 5, Vokzal-bound. The same car as above four years later, one and half years prior to the closure of the system. The car has evidently dilapidated, as the paint is patched up, some windows are boarded up, and the windshield is now an assortment of separate pieces of glass. The driver pulls the pantograph down upon crossing the trolleybus overhead. There are three passengers on board the tram. (11 Apr 2000, Aare Olander) |
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1-08g.
Sovetskaya Ul., the Pobedy Revolyutsii Pr. Stop.
KTM-8 50. Line 1, Shakhta 'Oktyabrskoy Revolyutsii'-bound. The newest tram on the system, delivered in 1994, and the last tram to ever to be delivered to the city. This tram, however, will be out of service prior to the closure of the tramway. (10 Sep 1996, Aare Olander) |
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1-09.
Sovetskaya Ul. near Korotkiy Per.
KTM-5M3 30. Line 4, 1-e Peresechenie-bound. This noticeably neglected car was delivered in 1987, and since then was overhauled in the Ukrainian city of Luhansk, located relatively close to this area. Car 30 will make it to the last day of operation of the tramway. (10 Sep 1996, Aare Olander) |
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1-10.
Sovetskaya Ul. / Kommunisticheskiy Per., the old Tramway Depot.
KTM-5M3 cars. The 'old' Depot, opened in 1932, was housed in the building of the church located on the hill. A lack of adequate space and uneven leveling in the church yard resulted in an oddly arranged tightly spaced clutter of multileveled tracks. (10 Sep 1996, Aare Olander) |
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1-11a.
Sovetskaya Ul. / Noviy Per.
KTM-5M3 44. Line 1, Vokzal-bound. The eastern section of Sovetskaya Ul. (23 Jun 1992, Aare Olander) |
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1-11b.
Sovetskaya Ul., the section between Kommunisticheskiy Per. and
Dezhnyova Ul.
Birds-eye view of the eastern section of Sovetskaya Ul. upon being redesigned after the removal of the tramway line. The rebuilt church on the site of the former 'old' Tram Depot is visible on the right side of the street, up the hill. (Shakhty municipality) |
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1-12.
Bolshaya Ul. (nowadays Sovetskaya Ul.) near Mezhevoy Per.
The Grushevskiy Most (Bridge) is being built at the eastern end of Bolshaya Ul. Tram of 'Kh' type is visible changing ends at the short-lived Grushevskiy Most Terminal. This photo is taken during the short period after the tramline via Bolshaya Ul. was extended east of the city center in 05.1933, but terminated here due to the absence of the adequate bridge crossing. Upon the completion of the bridge in 10.1933, the line would extend further east, to 1-e Peresechenie. (Summer 1933, the Shakhty municipality) |
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1-13.
Dezhnyova Ul. / Sovetskaya Ul.
Upon crossing the Grushevka River, the tramline switched to the neighboring paralleling Shosseynaya Ul. prior to continuing further east. Here is a short connection between Sovetskaya Ul. and Shosseynaya Ul. via Dezhnyova Ul. almost two years after the closure of the system, with tracks still visible amid the weeds. From this point on, the tramline used to continue via the segregated right-of-way on the curbside. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-14a.
Shosseynaya Ul., the 1-e Peresechenie Terminal
KTM-8 48. Line 5, 1-e Peresechenie-bound. The tram reaches the eastern end of the line, as at the time of this photo the Shakhta 'Oktyabrskoy Revolyutsii' extension was already closed. Upon leaving the main Sovetskaya Ul., the tramline ran up the steep hill via the curbside of Shosseynaya Ul., toward the 1-e Peresechenie Loop at the top of the hill. The downhill move was controlled by the specially installed signal, which allowed a tram to proceed only when the preceding tram completed a stop at the bottom of the hill, and turned onto Dezhnyova Ul., thus clearing the right-of-way. During the better days the grade signal acted as a headway constraint, as it limited the headway via the main tramway corridor on Sovetskaya Ul. to a 2 min minimum. (11 Apr 2000, Aare Olander) |
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1-14b.
Shosseynaya Ul., the former 1-e Peresechenie Loop prior to the railroad
crossing.
The once busiest line to Shakhta 'Oktyabrskoy Revolyutsii' and Line 1 closed on 09.1997 as tracks became impossible to navigate and no track overhaul was to be expected. The 1-e Peresechenie Loop was built right before the railroad crossing (the name of the Terminal means 'the 1st Crossing'). The line continued further east by way of merging into a single track at the railroad crossing, and splitting again beyond it. The remaining part of the line was a mixture of double track and single track. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-15.
Chernokozova Pr. / Mayakovskogo Ul.
PAZ midibus and GAZel minibuses. Line 4, Shakhta 'Yuzhnaya'-bound. The line via Chernokozova Ul. was a tramway boulevard, with trams running down the segregated median. In this photo, incoherent assortment of diesel buses of various sizes is seeing operating via the former tram Line 4, with route number designation preserved even after trams are gone. Almost two years after system's closure, the remnants of tramway infrastructure are still visible along the median. A curve to the left leads to Mayakovskogo Ul. (12 Sep 2004, YM) |
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1-16.
Mayakovskogo Ul. / Zheleznodorozhniy Per.
The railroad underpass on Mayakovskogo Ul. that was previously used by trams. The first version of the tramway line was opened prior to the underpass' completion, on July 01, 1934. The short-lived Puteprovod ('Passageway') Terminal was located on the other side of the railroad tracks. The line was extended to Shakhta 'Nezhdannaya' upon the opening of the underpass, on November 07, 1934. The new extension was operated by Line 3. (fotosha.ru) |
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1-17a.
Mayakovskogo Ul. / Popova Ul.
KTM-5M3 40. Line 4, Shakhta 'Yuzhnaya'-bound. Tram-like vehicle completes a run via the line to Shakhta 'Yuzhnaya'. As of the date of this photo, a year an half prior to the closure of the system, Line 3 to Shakhta 'Nezhdannaya' no longer operates, while Line 4 is operated with 1-2 trams on the 45-90 min headway. (11 Apr 2000, Aare Olander) |
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1-17b.
Mayakovskogo Ul. / Popova Ul.
The former tramway median on Mayakovskogo Ul., just beyond the railroad underpass. The remnants of the overhead are still visible. To a sheer shock of unsuspected out-of-town drivers, two-way traffic passage is maintained on both sides of the median. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-18.
Mayakovskogo Ul. / Karagandinskaya Ul.
The former splitting point between tramlines to Shakhta 'Nezhdannaya' (Line 3, straight ahead) and Shakhta 'Yuzhnaya' (Line 4, diverging to the left). Line 3 was suspended in 1996 due to lack of patronage, but the tracks were removed in 1999. During those three years, some unscheduled runs of Line 4 still ended at Shakhta 'Nezhdannaya'. In this peripheral area of town the tracks were evidently literally ripped out of the ground. Most rails that were still useable ended up in the neighboring city of Taganrog, that runs an exemplary tramway operation. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-19.
Karagandinskaya Ul. / Dachnaya Ul.
The former tramway line to Shakhta 'Yuzhnaya' ran via village-like Karagandinskaya Ul. The former tramway stop with the kiosk is still there, facing no tracks. Upon tramway's closure, the substitute buses use the neighboring paved Chkalova Ul., 2 blocks away. Trams operated here from November 11, 1962, until the tramway systems' last day, December 07, 2001. Prior to the closure, Line 4 was operated with 1-2 trams, with the headway extending to up to 90 min. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-20.
Karagandinskaya Ul. / Vasyuty Ul.
GAZel minibuses. Line 4. At the end of Karagandinskaya Ul. the former tramline ventured into the ragged terrain for the final stretch toward Shakhta 'Yuzhnaya' (the 'Southern' Mine) - the discarded trackage is still visible in the pavement. The gob pile belonging to the abandoned mine is in the background, while the Shakhta 'Yuzhnaya' sign is covered with weeds. This is literally the edge of the town, thus most gipsy minibuses operating Line 4 terminate here, with only occasional trips continuing to the abandoned mine, serving some scattered housing around it. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-21.
Former tramway line to Shakhta 'Yuzhnaya', near Vasyuty Ul.
The overhead support poles belonging to the former tramline with the abandoned mine in the background - a scene somewhat emblematic of modern Shakhty. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-22.
The site of the former Shakhta 'Yuzhnaya' Loop.
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1-23.
Chernokozova Pr. / Lenina Ul.
The line to the Trolleybus Depot and the tram and trolleybus overhaul shops was the newest tram extension in Shakhty, opened in 1989. Even tough the line mostly acted as the shop's access track, it was briefly served by a rush-hour-only Line 2 between 1989-1991, operated with one car on the 70 min headway. Upon the opening of the 'new' Tram Depot at the Trolleybus Depot, the line was served by depot runs that were always considered revenue trips. The Lenina Ul. Stop in this photo boasts a placard listing Lines 4 and 5, the last remaining services in the city, as if it would be a full service stop. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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Raboche-Krestyanskaya Ul. / Donskoy Per.
The line was built rather curvilinearely, as it was fitted into the side-streets that were never meant for trams. While it utilized a reserved median via Chernokozova Ul., some sections via Donskoy Per. were installed as a mixed right-of-way. The line was built to the very high and durable standards, and at the time of this photo, about two years after the system's closure, it remained the only section of the network that was not torn out. The Donskoy Per. Stop placard still hangs on the overhead support wire. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-25.
Parizhskoy Kommuny Ul. / Zvyozdnaya Ul.
Upon approaching the Depot, the line split in two one-way sections in order to navigate through a maze of village-like streets. The short-lived Line 2 terminated here by way of looping around a city block; it did not actually reach the Depot. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-26.
Koltsevaya Ul. / Masterovoy Per.
KTM-5M3 43. Line 5, Depot-bound. 43 completes a depot run in revenue service. The final stretch of the line via Koltsevaya Ul. at the approach to the Depot is single track. (20 May 2001, Pavel Torgalov) |
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1-27a.
Koltsevaya Ul. / Vodniy Per.
KTM-5M3 40. Line 4, Depot-bound. Another tram completes a depot run. At the time of this photo this shabby specimen was 11 years old. It will shuffle on to the last day of tramway operation. It has about a year and half to go. (11 Apr 2000, Aare Olander) |
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1-27b.
Shishkina Ul. / Temernitskaya Ul.
ZiU-VMZ-100 trolleybus. KhBK-bound. Upon approaching the Depot, the tramway line briefly followed Shishkina Ul. for a stretch long enough to allow for the at-grade railroad crossing. This is the only spot in the city where trams and trolleybuses ever ran side-by-side. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-28a.
The 'new' Tramway Depot.
KTM-5M3 41. System's tram and trolleybus overhaul shops, located at the Trolleybus Depot, evolved into the officially recognized Shakhty Tram and Trolleybus Overhaul Factory (the Russian abbreviation is ShVRTTZ). At the time of this photo, this also became a site for the 'new' Tram Depot. (11 Apr 2000, Aare Olander) |
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1-28b.
The 'new' Tramway Depot.
KTM-5M3 30 to the left. KTM-5M3 43 to the right. Approximately two years after the closure of the Shakhty tramway. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-28c.
The 'new' Tramway Depot.
KTM-5M3 30 to the left. KTM-5M3 43 to the right. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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1-28d.
The 'new' Tramway Depot.
KTM-8 48. (12 Sep 2003, YM) |
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