[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Fwd: train stations in Zhitomir oblast

[Katrin Hanko]

Hi Charlotte,

The first train ever left Zhitomir Train Station on January 9th, 1896 - 
according to this article http://zhzh.info/publ/4-1-0-4190

Best regards
Katrin Hanko
from Estonia



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charlotte Dubay" <hoeserhistory at aol.com>
To: <danwwagner at aol.com>; <ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 1:26 AM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Fwd: train stations in Zhitomir oblast


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> From: DANWWAGNER <DANWWAGNER at aol.com>
> To: hoeserhistory <hoeserhistory at aol.com>
> Sent: Tue, Sep 17, 2013 8:32 am
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] train stations in Zhitomir oblast
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> Charlotte,
> I assume you have this photo of the Zhitomir train station.  Don't know 
> the year, but those are horse-drawn wagons.  My notes call this the "old 
> Zhitomir train station."  (NOTE: photo was included.)
> Dan
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> In a message dated 9/17/2013 12:21:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> hoeserhistory at aol.com writes:
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> DanW.Wagner sent me a photo of train station in Zhitomir:
> Dan
> Yes, that IS the picture that I have. HORSES??  and I thought it was   a 
> "regular" train. hah.
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> I just read the following this morning, on Wiki:
> The Tsarskoye Selo Railway line was officially opened on 30   October 
> 1837, when an 8-carriage train was hauled by a steam locomotive   between 
> Saint Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo. Until the construction of the 
> cow    – Saint Petersburg Railway in 1851, it was the only passenger train 
> line   in Russia.[3] In 1899 it was merged   into the 
> Moscow-Windau-Rybinsk Railways and now forms   part of the Oktyabrskaya 
> Railway.
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I found nothing on when the ENGINE 
> pulled trains came to Volhynia.   Probably need to go to the library.
> Guess I will try a search there to see what I can find on trains. Real 
> trains!
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> Charlotte   DuBay
> hoeserhistory at aol.com
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> From: DANWWAGNER <DANWWAGNER at aol.com>
> To: hoeserhistory <hoeserhistory at aol.com>
> Sent: Tue, Sep 17, 2013 3:17 pm
> Subject: Re: Zhitomir trains, and best URL for huge free library in USA
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> Charlotte,
> I didn't mean that the horses were pulling the  train cars.  I only meant 
> that horse-drawn wagons were picking up  passengers and freight from the 
> rail stations.  That's an indication that  the station is old.
> Sorry for misleading you.
> Dan
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> Gotta laugh! Talk about being "concrete"!
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> Well, I had read that horses did indeed pull the early "carriage" cars, so 
> I just ASSUMED that is what you meant! Hah. The photo was taken in the 
> 1880s, and since my grandmother left in 1894, I am again ASSUMING that 
> they left from Zhitomir. (not a word about the jokes on the term 
> "assume")... Their last baby was born just weeks before in 
> Novohrad-Volynsk, and others were baptized in Heimthal, so it looks 
> logical that they left from Zhitomir.
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> Found nothing on the time line of the development of Russian trains, 
> except for my initial post.
> There has to be a train buff out there SOME where!
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> Charlotte DuBay
> hoeserhistory at aol.com
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> In a message dated 9/17/2013 8:13:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
> hoeserhistory at aol.com writes:
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> Hello listers,
> My grandmother's family left Heimthal in   1894. They took the train to 
> Bremen.
> I don't know where they boarded the   train.
> I have seen photos of the "new" train station at Zhitomir, but I   was 
> wondering
> how many towns had stations -
> or if in those early days   you had to leave from the Zhitomir station.
> Is there a list somewhere of   train stations in Zhitomir / all of 
> Volhynia?
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> I had read that the   railroad development in Russia was "behind" other
> European countries -   with availability coming later for Russian 
> travelers.
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> Thanks for any   leads.
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> Charlotte   DuBay
> hoeserhistory at aol.com
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