The Shushary Museum, St. Petersburg, 2006

After many years in Moscow, Harvey Smith relocated to St. Petersburg in 2014. There is a list of linked reports at the bottom.

See also the 2015 update - link above.

Shushary Museum, St.Petersburg. (October Railway Collection) is 14 Km south of St Petersburg

When you are at Vitebsk Station take the Electrichka suburban train to Pavlovsk Park. Buying a ticket is complicated. Ignore the booking halls and go upstairs. Go right and follow the right hand platform to the barrier where you will find the ticket booths for the train to Shushary. In Russia ticket booths are designated. The train has wooden seats, but despite the temperatures in winter they are warm. You will need the train to "Paravoz Muzei", which is one stop after Shushary. When you get there, you will see what looks like a scrapyard on the left side of the tracks. It is in fact a museum with its own halt and shed for restoration. Almost all the exhibits are in dreadful condition awaiting restoration, and are mainly duplicates of what can be found at the Outdoor Train Museum. However, there are Eg.5315 (one of only three remaining), Yes.311 (one of only two remaining), and a coach that is completely open, the purpose of which I could not work out. Sadly I never got the name of the place and it was not mentioned in my Rough Guide. The museum seems to be used for storage and restoration work.

A former list of exhibits is given below (P36.0032 for example is now used by Golden Eagle Luxury Trains):

TT-397
L-2112
E^R-739.79 
E^R-762.90
E^I-950
E^G-5315 One of only three remaining
E^U-680-18 
LV-0420
S^R253-82 
SO17-2286 
TE-2505 
TE5694
Ye^S-311 One of only two remaining
FD20-163 
FD20-1477
S^U206-48 
P36-0027 
P36-0032 

All the pictures below were taken in 2006:

Ye^S-311

E^G-5315 

The open coach:

These were the 2-6-0T tank locomotives.

(Trevor Heath provided this link which shows more pictures of it - http://community.livejournal.com/ru_abandoned/932694.html. There is a map for the site here http://maps.livejournal.com/#/13/59.797266540266214,30.399513244628906/.)

See also:

• The St. Petersburg Outdoor Railway Museum, 2006 

• The St. Petersburg Outdoor Railway Museum, 2013 (updated 30th May 2017)

• A St. Petersburg Railway Miscellany (updated 11th April 2017)

• Moscow Railway Station / St. Petersburg Depot, 2014 

• The Indoor Railway Museum, St. Petersburg, 2014 

• Moscow Sort Depot, St. Petersburg, 2014 (updated 2nd February 2015)

• Grand Maket Rossiya / The Grand Model of Russia

• VE Day in St. Petersburg (14th May 2015)

• Moscow Sort Depot, St. Petersburg, 2015-7 (updated 5th November 2017)

• The St. Petersburg Southern Children's Railway (updated 27th June 2016)

• Lebyazhe Railway Museum Depot (16th June 2015)

• The Tsar's Private Railway Station, St.Petersburg (updated 8th August 2017)

• The Shushary Museum, St. Petersburg, 2015 (5th August 2015)

• The Northern St. Petersburg Children's Railway (10th June 2016)

• Russian Railways RetroTrain Trip 2016 (14th June 2016) 

• E^M-721-83 at Petrokrepost (3rd August 2017)

• The new Russian Railway Museum in St. Petersburg 2017 (1st December 2017)

• The Russian Railway Museum, St. Petersburg 2018 (25th October 2018)