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ANYKSCIAI
RAILWAY STATION
Anyksciai
railway station was built on 1901. A visit to the station is
a visit to the last century. All the station complex is
almost unchanged: the water-tower, the water-pump, the main
station building, the storehouse, living houses, the
stone-paved square, the metal bridge across the river
Sventoji, the narrow gauge rails, the railway points.
The
Water Tower
The old water-supply
system is left. The water from the Sventoji was pumped into
the water by a pump. The railway engines going to Panevezys
were filled with water from the tower and those which went
to Svencioneliai were filled from the water pump. When the
steam engines were transformed into diesel engines water
towers lost their functions.
There was an active fountain in the railway station too.
The
Water-Pump
It had to supply
engines with water. The pump is in the middle of the railway
station territory between two lines of rails.
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- The
Station
- The station was built in 1901.
The facades are authentic, the roof, windows, doors are
decorated with carvings. The building technology,
construction, details of decoration were used in one Russian
railway station.
- The main and the biggest room
is on the ground floor. It is a waiting lounge with a
booking-office window. The offices for employees were on
both sides of the lounge - an office, a booking office, a
goods office, a room for a watchman, a department of
communication, the archives, a storehouse. A three-room flat
was on the first floor.
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- The
Storehouse
- Celebrating the hundredth
anniversary of the narrow railway in 1999 the exposition of
the narrow gauge railway history was started to be
organized. It contains narrow railway equipment, icons,
documents, photographs, rolling stock.
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- The
Bridge
- The steel bridge was built in
1936. An old one stood not far from it. It was wooden. You
can see the riverside of the Anyksta and the picturesque
river Sventoji. The length of the bridge is 96 m, the width
is 4,5 m, the height is 12 m.
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- The Rails
- They were produced at the end
of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries in the
plants of Russia, Germany, Denmark. The dates found on the
rails are 1903, 1914 and 1945. Some rails are older than the
railway. The oldest ones were produced in 1878.
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- The
Railway Points
- An old traffic regulation
system is left: the railway points, jibs, platforms. Some
points are from 1914-1915.
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