Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow, July/August 2014

Harvey Smith was based in and around Moscow off and on from 1997 to 2014 and has now moved to St. Petersburg. Apart from this report he has also posted information on other attractions in Moscow and the rest of Russia, there are links at the bottom of the page.

Podmoskovnaya stabled visiting locos for festivities at Shcherbinka on 1st to 3rd August 2014 celebrating 180 years of Russian locomotives starting from Cherepanov Father and Son who built the first Russian steam locomotive - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherepanovs  

See below for details of Harvey's pre-Shcherbinka visit but there now follows information from a post-show visit on 6th August 2014 when, for the first time, Harvey was able to see inside the shed. This has taken him years to achieve by careful negotiation and is not available to casual visitors.

In addition to those steam locomotives previously noted including those that were visiting for the 180 years celebration at Shcherbinka he found:

• LV-0522 (seen previously)

• E^R-774-38. The first Russian steam locomotive he ever rode behind in July 2010.

• An unnumbered class L

• 9P-19499 from Shcherbinka being rebuilt to running condition at Podmokovnaya. Probably to be the depot shunter. She is little more than a boiler, frames, wheels and valve gear. So the project is ambitious.

Harvey Smith was lucky enough to visit the depot on 25th July 2014 and the show. Here are some of the pictures he took at Podmoskovnaya:

These are Dmitry Kolesnikov's pictures which were taken a couple of days later:

• The Richskaya (Moscow) Railway Museum

• The Museum of Lenin’s Funeral Train, Moscow (as was)

• Museum of the Moscow Railway at Paveletsky Station (Museum of Lenin's funeral train after renovation, 12th February 2012)

• Victory Park

• A Moscow Miscellany Part 1 (updated 1st August 2012)

• A Moscow Miscellany Part 2 (updated 12th August 2012)

• A Russian Steam Miscellany (updated 8th October 2014)

• Moscow Retro (Steam) Train 2010/11 (updated 24th September 2012)

• Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow 2010-2013 (updated 24th June 2013)

• The Kratovo Children’s Railway (13th June 2012)

• Kazanski Station and the Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express (24th September 2012)

• Kievski Station Locomotive Depot (1st August 2012)

• Serp and Molot Factory Steam Locomotive P24-7 (updated 22nd January 2017)

• Shcherbinka Depot and Test Track (12th August 2012)

• 175 Years of Russian Railways at Shcherbinka Depot and Test Track (12th September 2012)

• The Moscow Polytechnical Museum, 2012 (18th September 2012)

• Leningradski and Yaroslavski Stations, Moscow (3rd January 2013)

• Moscow Retro Steam Trip to the Space Village / Star City (13th March 2013)

• The Technical Museum Vadima Zadorojnogo, Moscow (updated 18th March 2018)

• Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow, August 2013 (6th September 2013)

• Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow, 9th April and 13th June 2014 (16th June 2014)

• 180 years of Russian Steam (10th August 2014)

• Surviving Portable Engines in the former Soviet Union (14th August 2014)

• P36 120 formerly at Belorusski Voxhall / Railway Station (29th August 2014)

• Farewell to Podmoskovnaya Depot, October 2014 (updated 31st May 2018)

• VE Day in Moscow, 2015 (and 2017) (11th May 2017)