SIMFEROPOL, October 8 – Novosti. Passenger train No. 28 with the Simferopol-Moscow message passed along the Krymsky bridge in the direction of the Krasnodar Territory, Novosti was told in the GrandService Express carrier company
The train left the capital of Crimea today at 17:10 according to the schedule. The next stop along the route after the bridge is at the Taman-Passenger station in the Kuban at 22:20.
Test freight trains passed along the Crimean bridge in the evening after the emergency, when specialists examined the canvas and structures. Then the Ministry of Transport issued permission for the trains to follow the transport crossing.
This morning, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee reported that a truck had been blown up on the Crimean bridge. Seven tanks with fuel caught fire along the railway part of the crossing. As a result, two car spans partially collapsed, but the supports of the arch for the passage of ships were not damaged.
Around 16:00 Moscow time, the head of the Crimea , Sergei Aksyonov , said that car traffic on the bridge for cars was resumed. It is carried out in reverse mode. Trucks and buses must use the Kerch Ferry, which operates free of charge. Aksyonov stressed that within 24 hours the issue of the possibility of their movement across the bridge would be resolved.
In turn, the railway communication was restored after seven o’clock in the evening. At about 19:30 Moscow time, a test train with 15 cars successfully passed along the Crimean bridge.
