Lakhtinsky crossover is a сrossing by railroad line of lake Lakhtinsky Razliv

Lakhtinsky Razliv

Lake Lakhta is a lake in St. Petersburg's Primorsky District connected to the Neva Bay of the Baltic Sea by the 500-meter-long Bobylka River. The Kamenka, Glukharka and Yuntolovka rivers empty into the lake. Its area is 1.76 km², with the maximum depth of 8.3 meters...

 in St. Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

, Russia

Russia

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At building of a first stage of the Primorskaya line

Primorskaya Line

- History :Its first stage was opened on July 12, 1894 - the line reached Lakhta.Second stage was opened on October 31, 1894; the railway left on coast of Gulf of Finland opposite to island Kotlin and was integrated with a steamship line....

 on a stage Novaya Derevnya

Novaya Derevnya

Novaya Derevnya railway station is a railway station located in St. Petersburg, Russia.It was built by a joint-stock company of the Prinorskaya St.-Peterburg-Sestroretsk railway and was opened in structure Ozerki line on July 23, 1893...

 - Lakhta

Lakhta railway station

Lakhta railway station is a railway station that was opened Lakhta settlement and now is in St. Petersburg, Russia.It was built on the Joint-stock company of the Prinorskaya St.-Peterburg-Sestroretsk railway and was opened on July 12, 1894. When it opened, it was the terminal station...

 it was necessary to overcome lake Lakhtinsky Razliv

Lakhtinsky Razliv

Lake Lakhta is a lake in St. Petersburg's Primorsky District connected to the Neva Bay of the Baltic Sea by the 500-meter-long Bobylka River. The Kamenka, Glukharka and Yuntolovka rivers empty into the lake. Its area is 1.76 km², with the maximum depth of 8.3 meters...

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For this purpose engineer P. A. Avenarius in 1894 under own project has constructed Lakhtyinsky crossover.
It was the 200-metre pile bridge which was settling down to in parallel Lahtinsky dam on which there was an overland road.

Near to the bridge Shunting loop Dum and Shunting loop 2 verst has been arranged.
Bridge was a considerable construction of time and has been opened on July, 12th 1894.

Сatastrophic flooding of on September, 23rd 1924 has completely destroyed the bridge and it has been restored in 1925 on that place where exists now.

As of 2009 on this place is metal one-flying deck girder bridge, which basis is the box-shaped beam on stone coastal foundations.