A museum dedicated to one of the main attractions of our city. This is probably one of the most interesting museums of the city, both for the residents and guests of our city. All a child thought – and as the morning escalator? and what does the employee, who is sitting in a box at the bottom, probably he pedals to riding an escalator? what a driver’s cab, with a bunch of levers and buttons? as a driver manages so well to stop the juggernaut part of the platform, to the nearest centimeter? What is the mysterious purpose of the vast number of cables that extend through the tunnel all the way
These and other questions will be answered here: the Museum of St. Petersburg metro. Metro is one of the most complex and expensive in terms of construction and maintenance of public transport, particularly the St. Petersburg Metro – one of the deepest and most beautiful in the world. And because Metro has not only the function of transportation of a huge number of people – it also serves as a refuge in case of flooding, missile attack (as a bomb shelter). In all of this the metro is one of the oldest forms of public transport – a year later the St. Petersburg metro is 60 years old, and the first drawings and ideas to create vneulichnoogo railway line, which would connect all the points of the city, were created in the late 19th century (125 years ! back)
Museum blogged about the history of the underground, since the first drawings and the action (late 19th century) to the present day – plans for the future, new systems are in use or will be introduced in the near future. You will learn how to construct traffic lights, the brake system of trains, what it represents itself a subway car in the section and from all angles, see the driver’s car, learn the history of the stations of Petersburg metro, unusual cases and legends (for example, will tell you why half columns at the station metro Avtovo made of glass, and the other half – is framed in marble)