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Experience 21st century coachbuilding.

Immerse yourself in a mix of rare craft skills and the latest modern technology that goes into each Morgan sports car. Your tour guide will take you through each of the historic workshops, showcasing the unique processes which go in to building a Morgan.

Factory tours start and finish at the Morgan Experience Centre, operating Monday to Saturday throughout the year.

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Experience drives, frequently asked questions, where are the tours held.

The tours start and finish at the Morgan Experience Centre, Spring Lane, Malvern, WR14 2LS

How long is the tour?

Morgan factory tours last between 1.5 to 2 hours

What is a typical group size for a tour?

The maximum public tour capacity is 18 people. For private group tours, we can accommodate higher numbers, please contact us for more information.

Are there any accessibility limitations?

We welcome disabled visitors, however, please inform us upon booking if you are a wheelchair user to allow us to accommodate you sufficiently.

Can I take my dog?

We welcome visitors with registered assistance dogs to our experience centre and on our tours. Our factory tours involve a real working environment, and we need to ensure the safety of everyone. Because of this, we cannot allow pets into the factory.

Do you offer the tour in another language?

All our factory tours are in English.

AN AUTOMOTIVE EXPERIENCE LIKE NO OTHER

Guided tours of the Morgan factory, last for around two hours and run Monday to Saturday.

Limited to just 18 visitors per tour, an experienced and knowledgeable tour guide will introduce you to the Morgan brand, explaining the story and heritage of the company, before guiding you through each of the factory workshops, explaining how every Morgan car is hand crafted.

All visitors are issued with a headset to ensure they can hear the tour guide clearly in each workshop.

A MIX OF CRAFT AND TECHNOLOGY 

The Morgan Motor Company welcomes over 30,000 visitors from around the world to tour the factory each year. Each one of those visitors gets within metres of the vehicles being crafted, as they walk the production line. The experience of a Morgan factory tour is unparalleled within the automotive industry, with visitors being able to immerse themselves in the production process.

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The Morgan Motor Company welcomes over 30,000 visitors from around the world, to tour the factory each year. Each one of those visitors gets within metres of the vehicles being crafted, as they walk the production line. The experience of a Morgan factory tour is unparalleled within the automotive industry, with visitors being able to immerse themselves in the production process.

The Morgan Experience Centre is situated on the same site as the factory and is where your Morgan experience will begin. It is also home to a range of other visitor attractions including sports car hire, experience drives, the Morgan Café, the official Morgan shop and The Archive Room. There is no booking necessary for visiting the Experience Centre however there is a £5 per person charge for entry into The Archive Room, when not booked onto a factory tour.

Guided tours of the Morgan factory are limited to just 18 visitors per tour with an experienced and knowledgeable tour guide to introduce you to the Morgan brand, explaining the story and heritage of the company, before guiding you through each of the factory workshops. All visitors are issued with a headset to ensure that they can hear the tour guide clearly in each workshop.

Tours are available Monday to Saturday, morning and afternoon from Monday to Thursday and mornings only on Fridays and Saturdays. We are closed on Sundays. Children under 5 years of age are not permitted. Educational and group visits are welcome but we would ask you to contact us for pricing and to book directly. The factory tour and Experience Centre is accessible for all, with alternative access points mapped out for wheelchair users. Please allow approximately 2 hours for the tour and note that visitors may be standing for the duration.

Adult: £29.50 per person

Child: £14.75 per person (aged 5-11 years inclusive)

You can pre-book your visit on the Morgan Motor Company website or alternatively contact our reservations team on 01684 573104 / [email protected]

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Morgan: ‘In the wood shed a team of master craftsmen hand form English ash while getting high on glue fumes’

►  Mark Walton on the Morgan factory ►  Inside the Morgan Motor Company ►  Factory tour in Malvern, Worcestershire 

I visited the Morgan factory in Malvern the other day – me and 30,000 other people. Thankfully not everyone came at the same time, but that, believe it or not, is the number of people who visit Morgan’s red brick sheds every year. This is automotive industry turned into tourism. Welcome to the future. 

Not that Morgan isn’t worth a visit. It’s so quaint, it’s like it was invented by a Disney executive. The traditional production line is aided by gravity: cars are born at the top of the hill and they slowly descend the natural slope down a series of gangways that link the succession of workshops. 

From the moment you step into the topmost shed – the original, built by Henry Fredrick Stanley Morgan in 1914 – the atmosphere is pungent with history. Framed by bare brick walls, wooden floorboards and exposed steel roof trusses, the top shed acts a museum, but step down a couple of stairs to enter the chassis shop and you find yourself in a messy world of hand tools, power drills, criss-crossing cables, shelves lined with box files and plastic trays full of components, bottles of glue, cans of oil, photos and memos and calendars stuck to the walls. It feels authentic – Disney would never accept this kind of health and safety. 

Classic Plus 4s are still made side-by-side with the new alloy-chassis Plus Six. The new model has been a leap for a small manufacturer like Morgan – just the wiring loom of the new BMW engine and gearbox looks daunting, its multi-coloured strands sprawling out like there’s a clown’s plastic wig hanging under the dashboard.

Everyone’s favourite bit of the tour is, of course, the wood shed, where a team of master craftsmen hand-form English ash while getting high on glue fumes all day. Even the new Plus Six has an ash frame, acting as an intermediary between the boxy alloy chassis and those classically curvaceous panels. The ash ‘former’ for the rear wing – a gigantic block of wood with a curved channel cut through it – looks like it was found on the Mary Rose and dredged out of the English Channel. It’s survived so many generations of employee, no one is sure how long it’s been there.

But the thing that surprised me most about my day at Morgan was how busy it was. Instead of exiting through the gift shop, the £24 tour starts here – in the gift shop and the cafe, where I sampled the carrot cake, a perfect Morgan-esque slice, beautifully handmade by skilled artisans.

Visitors gather here, buying their Morgan caps and their Morgan branded fudge, before starting the tour, and it was packed all day. Packed with enthusiasts from around the world, a chattering congregation of English, American, Dutch and German accents. As well as the Tour, visitors can also sign up for Morgan ‘experiences’ – £25 gets you a passenger ride in a three-wheeler. Everyone I saw climbing out looked like they’d spent half an hour on a roller coaster. Or in a giant tumble dryer. 

It would be unjust to call this a Morgan theme park, because it’s a working factory, steeped in history. There’s no artifice here, nothing’s contrived, and if the visitors stopped coming the cars would still be made the same way. But Morgan is also a vision of the future, specifically our passion for cars and how that will be expressed in years to come.

If Ford and Mercedes-Benz do survive the revolution (and nothing is certain these days) they’ll end up like Samsung smartphone manufacturers – mass producing plastic cases on wheels with lithium-ion batteries. But a few master craftsmen will continue, like the katana-kaji, the ancient samurai sword makers in Japan, still polishing their blades even though a samurai warrior could be felled by a traffic warden with a taser these days. 

Ferrari, McLaren, Bentley, Morgan, Ariel – these will be the places we’ll visit, to tour the factory, to see how the old petrol-driven cars are still lovingly made the old-fashioned way, with carbon and English ash, and maybe we’ll also splash out on a thrilling £25 passenger ride. These factories won’t be museums – they’ll be boutique experiences for people who don’t want to let go. Yes, the automotive industry will turn into tourism, selling Bentley-branded scarves, Ferrari flat caps and McLaren fudge.

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Tour the Morgan Motor Company’s Worcestershire factory

The Morgan Motor Company might seem timeless – or even dated – but underneath the handcrafted aluminium bodywork is a manufacturer with great skills and grand plans: we take a factory tour

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The Morgan Motor Company has been located in Malvern Link, Worcestershire, for over a hundred years, nestled at the foot of the surprisingly steep hills of the same name. It was these same hills that the firm’s founder, Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan, used as a testing ground for his first cars. These were light, efficient three-wheelers, with an innate sporting quality, although many of the pre-war cars were affordable runabouts and tourers, not out-and-out sports cars.

The aluminium chassis are fitted with a bespoke ash frame

The first Morgan 4/4 (four wheels and a four-cylinder engine) was released in 1939, followed by a refined and uprated Plus Four model in 1952. The iconic Plus Four was released in 1950, and by the early 1960s had gradually evolved into a familiar and enduring form. Over 70 years, with diversions into Plus Eights (powered by a V8) and numerous variations, this is the car that continues to define Morgan in the modern mind. 

Inside the Morgan Motor Company factory

Every aspect of each car is hand-made and unique

Fast-forward to the present day and many of the company’s original brick workshops are still in existence, their floors worn uneven with activity. Some of the machinery looks distinctly antediluvian, with ancient presses, stampers and jigs abutting the more contemporary kit of car making.

Bodywork is fitted around the ash frame and chassis

‘We have a very wasteless attitude to manufacturing,’ Morgan’s head of design, Jonathan Wells, as he conducts a whistlestop tour through the process, from bonded aluminium chassis (made elsewhere in the UK) through to handcrafted Lincolnshire ash frame, over which the aluminium bodywork is hammered and bent into shape.

Front wings ready for installation

We’re here to sample the Plus Six, the top of the range Morgan that sits alongside the ‘entry level’ Plus Four and alongside the Morgan Super 3 , the raw three-wheeler that leaves you open to the elements and is classified as a motorbike in the US market. After a visceral, rain-spattered blast in the latter, it’s time to get into the dry, leather-lined cabin of the Plus Six. So named for the six-cylinder turbo-charged BMW-supplied engine at its heart, the Plus Six is an impressive combination of two essential qualities of any sports car – light weight and raw power.

Hand-stamping the vents on the bonnet

At just 1,075kg, the rear-wheel drive Plus Six makes the most of its 335hp. With a heavy right foot, it’s easy to unseat this car, although the nicely weighted, ultra-direct steering helps you snap it back in line without too much drama. Even though it’s slightly longer and wider than its Plus Four sibling (in order to accommodate the larger engine), the Plus Six is still a tight fit for two, with space behind the front seats to stow bags as well as a boot-mounted luggage rack.

An ash frame under construction

As a long-distance GT, it’s not ideal – long stretches of autoroute would swiftly become a little wearing. Instead, think of the Plus Six as a way to enhance any journey, especially with the lightweight canvas roof stowed, no particular deadline to meet and a suitably winding (dry) road ahead.

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Installing the front grille

Morgan definitely has a diverse and eccentric customer base, people who are willing to wait between three to six months for a car, and who value the process of visiting the factory and seeing hammer on metal in person. Plus Four and Six blend old and new unlike no other car, and even apparent anachronisms like the ash frame have their place. As Wells points out, it helps make the platform incredibly flexible, and materials use is pared to a minimum.

A venerable jig for shaping the curve of the front wings

In contrast, the Super 3 is the first time the company has ever worked without wood, but even here there’s an inseparable combination of design and engineering. Nothing is superfluous. ‘Every component serves many different functions,’ says Wells, ‘which in turn serves the aesthetic.’ He points to the cast aluminium brackets that hold the Super 3’s headlights as well as serve as the engine bracing structure.

Super 3s come together in a separate part of the factory

Inside, there’s military-grade weatherproof switchgear (the starter button is a missile release switch from the Tornado fighter jet), while the removable side storage panels feature a patented clip system that will hold everything from a GoPro to a suitcase. Shaping this car has been a labour of love for the company, and the Super 3 has found a ready audience of people willing to embrace its motorcycle-style attitude.

A brace of Super 3s ready for delivery. Models with central headlights are US-spec – they comply with motorcycle regulations

Things are changing at Morgan, albeit slowly. Wells is now the longest serving design chief at the company (although admittedly only its second), and in new Italian owner Investindustrial, it has the funding and ambition to do things a little differently. For decades, Morgan ploughed a solitary furrow, building bespoke cars for a select audience who prized individualism above all else.

Measuring up for the headlight mountings

Electrification poses a massive challenge to such a small manufacturer, of course, as do the safety requirements of essential markets like the USA, and the ever-increasing need for ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance and Safety Systems) in new cars. The former is currently being explored, with prototypes like the recent Morgan XP-1 pointing convincingly towards a zero-emission future. The latter requires investment. Sure, there are loopholes, but the bottom line is that the sensor-festooned modern automobile with its lane-keeping assistance, emergency braking systems, and the like, seems completely at odds with the Morgan ethos to date. 

In some respects, Morgan is refreshingly at odds with the modern industry

For Wells and his team, currently based on an industrial estate a short drive away from the main factory, alongside practically every other desk job the company requires, these are opportunities as well as challenges. We’re shown page upon page of sketches and pointers to what’s coming in the near future – all currently under wraps - as well as an exclusive preview of an upcoming collaboration, one that will advance the Morgan aesthetic and its standing in the wider design community.

The Morgan Plus Four and Plus Six

The British motor industry was once awash with small manufacturing outfits like Morgan, each catering to a precise niche and ensuring that jobs, skills, and benefits flowed into their surrounding communities. Economics and efficiencies mean that cars can no longer made this way, so Morgan’s survival is something to be cherished. The good news is that all the things that made the company so distinctive in the past will help it progress into a successful future.

The finished cars: Morgan Plus Four and Plus Six

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Jonathan Bell has written for Wallpaper* magazine since 1999, covering everything from architecture and transport design to books, tech and graphic design. He is now the magazine’s Transport and Technology Editor. Jonathan has written and edited 15 books, including Concept Car Design, 21st Century House, and The New Modern House. He is also the host of Wallpaper’s first podcast.

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Morgan Motor Company still makes cars by hand with wood

Hand-built sports cars made largely of wood are still being built. Here’s a look inside the anachronistic Morgan Motor Company.

Morgan Motor Company

In a small factory in the west of England, Morgan Motor Company has been making vehicles for over 100 years. Here's a look behind the scenes. 

For the full story behind this tour, check out Classic of classics: how Morgan Motor Company still makes their wooden wonders .

Starting line

The factory is unassuming, with just a series of low brick buildings on a small site.

Hints at beyond

Finished cars await storage and shipping, and give us a taste of what's to come.

Last of the V8 roadsters?

With only a few months of production left on the BMW V8 Morgan uses in the Plus 8, the hunt for a new, more emissions friendly, replacement is on. Tour guide Kevin thinks it might be a straight 6. My bet, based on pure speculation, is a turbo V6. 

Two of Morgan's popular 3 Wheelers, ready for their owners. 

The factory is built on a slight slope, which they use to their advantage to move rolling, but unpowered, chassis from one building to the next. 

Some legends

Before we enter the factory proper, we get to check out some important Morgans in their design studio.

Morgan has competed several times in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, including this very car in 2004.

A somewhat rare 4-seat Morgan. 

A prototype of the upcoming all-electric 3 Wheeler , due out in late 2018.

A 34.8kW motor and an 8 second 0-62 time is expected, with a 120 mile range from a 21KWh battery.

The Aero 8 was lunched in 2000, featuring an updated look and overall design for the new century. 

Plus 4 Plus

An extremely rare Plus 4 Plus , with a fiberglass body wrapping a Plus 4 chassis. 

The first building you enter on the tour is one of the main assembly buildings. 

Aluminum/aluminium

Morgan's vehicles aren't entirely made of wood, that's a common misconception. They have many wood sections, as we'll see. Their chassis is aluminum, which is manufactured nearby for Morgan.  

You can tell the Aero from the classic 4 chassis by the rear. The Aero has a square back, the 4 and its various versions have a slope.

The V8 Morgans use this, a 4.8L BMW V8 with 367hp. A Morgan badge gets attached over the BMW logo, though they don't hide where it's from in any literature. 

The simple, but effective, sliding pillar suspension and live rear axle. 

Engines in a row

Some engines await install. Cars can roll down this ramp to enter the next building and stage of production.

Rolling chassis

A close up of a rolling chassis, awaiting some bodywork. Conveniently, that's our next stop. This is a Plus 8 , I believe. 

Put your clothes on

Once the mechanical bits get sorted in the previous building, they get wrapped in the curvy outside parts. These are largely made by hand.

Squeezed in

A fairly tight fit for the 4.8L V8 in this Plus 8.

Not all the same

There are four engine choices for the "traditionally styled" cars. Though they look very similar, they're not identical. The width  changes slightly with the engine displacement. So the Plus 8 is the widest, the 1.6L 4/4 is the narrowest. The easiest way to tell is by looking at the distance between the headlights and the grill.

There's the wood

Now you can start seeing how much wood is actually used. We'll see more about this in the woodshops a bit later.

The fenders, aka "wings" and the hood, aka "bonnet" are rolled by hand for each car by skilled craftsmen using these machines.

Ready to ride... sort of

When the cars leave this building they're officially "rolling chassis." You could, in theory, get in and drive them. In fact, that's exactly what they do to get the cars to the paint shop across the way. Before we get there, though, we're going to take a step back.

Coachbuilding

While the chassis is aluminum, the body is a mix of wood and aluminium. In this building and the next, they build the structure to support the exterior body panels.

Hand crafted

When Morgan says built by hand, this is what they mean. All modern cars are built with some hands-on stages ( some less than others ), but Morgan certainly does this to the extreme. Old school indeed.

Aluminum and ash

An example of the handiwork. Ash, with aluminum supports.

Here's where the curves and laminates get made.

Curvy fenders

That curve that creates the shape for the wheel wells (upside down here), isn't cut that way. Instead, it's a bent multilayer laminate.

Three thin layers of ash are bent to the shape desired, then glued together and secured in the form. 

Once the adhesive dries, usually in under an hour, the resulting curve is strong enough for car duty.  

Pretty much everything on the car that's not metal or leather gets made here.

For certain parts, like the dashboard, a vacuum sealing process secures pieces firmly while adhesive seals them together.

The block of wood and the dashboard topper that gets made from it.

Pieces at the ready

If you order a Morgan, you can have the interior trim and parts look pretty much however you want.

Paint shop pro

After the cars get to the rolling chassis stage, they get driven across to the paint shop. Amazingly, the cars get completely disassembled at this stage, in order to make sure every part gets a full covering of paint.  

Interior decorating

The other main ingredient for a Morgan is leather, or a leather substitute if you want. Nearly the entire interior is covered in it.

Final assembly

As the car gets its interior finished, most of the bits that came off to get painted don't get put on until after everything is done. This is to minimize the chance for scratches. Here some parts await a maroon car that's nearly finished.

Finishing touches

All the pieces go on, all the bolts and nuts get tightened. At this point, the Morgan is just about ready to go.

Super bright florescent lights bathe the inspection bays with light, so the techs can find any issues or imperfections now, before the cars ship.

Undercarriage

Every part gets checked and rechecked. Note how the underside is largely covered on this Aero 8. 

Some 3 Wheeler chassis. Wonder where we're headed next...

Across from the paint shop is the 3 Wheeler assembly building. These are faster to build than the cars, and get their own line. 

Under the skin

The big 2L V-twin gets routed through a Miata gearbox to the rear wheel.

It's a tight fit for two, but it sure looks fun.

The tour finishes in the Morgan museum, which has a few vehicles from their past. This is a replica of one of the earliest models.

French Morgan

A 1923 Darmont-Morgan, which was a Morgan built under licence in France between the wars.

When I finished my tour, this Plus 4 was out front in Sport Green, my favorite color, as if to tempt me. 

Until next time

Renting a Morgan was out of my budget for this trip, but perhaps next time. Sure looks like a comfy place to sit for an open-air adventure...

For the full story behind this tour, check out  Classic of classics: how Morgan Motor Company still makes their wooden wonders .  

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The Morgan Motor Company in England is one of the oldest auto manufacturers in the world and the only company still making their cars entirely by hand, just like they did over 100 years ago when they first opened their doors.

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The Morgan Motor Company in England is one of the oldest auto manufacturers in the world and the only company still making their cars entirely by hand, just like they did over 100 years ago when they first opened their doors. In fact, they are still made in the same factory they were built in way back then. As you can imagine, the facility has grown a bit over the years, but seriously just a bit. The facility is located in the English countryside in a great little town called Malvern.

On a recent trip to England, we decided we just had to go check out this facility and see where all Morgans for the last 100+ years have been made. On arrival, we were blown away at how open the facility is. We literally pulled off the main road and right into the factory where all the cars were being made. No security guards, no gates, no nothing, just a few employees pointing us where to park so that we did not get in the way of the work.

We headed to the main office where we had pre-registered for a tour of the factory that day. We signed in and let the girl behind the desk know who we were, and minutes late we were met by Jon Wells Morgans, head designer. John sat down with us for a few minutes while we had a cup of tea and then said, “Hey, let’s go check it all out. I will show you around today and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Also feel free to take any photos you like and make yourself at home.” At this point we were a little beside ourselves thinking is he serious?

Not only was he completely serious, but this is how they treat all guests there at the factory. Everything you could ever hope to see is right in front of your eyes being built right there and then. If you have any questions you can ask your tour guide or go right up to one of the employees as they work and ask them. They will be more than happy to answer your question or show you what they are doing. The factory is set up in several large buildings and in each building is a different task being performed by skilled masters of their trade.

It is amazing to watch the cars start out in one side of the factory as a piece of wood and come out the other as a hand crafted piece of automotive art. The Morgan factory is truly like going back in time by not only the methods they use to produce the cars, but by their old fashioned hospitality you receive the second you arrive. We highly recommend touring this facility as it was the highlight of our trip.

You can learn more about taking the factory tour on the Morgan website .

We took dozens of photos while on the tour. If you’re a Morgan lover, or a fan of automobile craft, make sure to check out the slideshow below!

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Introduction of moscow subway system (metro).

Nowadays the Moscow Metro has 12 lines, light subway and monorail. All stations are unique and beautiful in their own way. Unfortunately, in order to visit them all, you need to spend many days. I invite guests to visit the ones that have the greatest cultural and historical interest from my point of view. Among them are the Revolution Square, Arbatskaya, Kievskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line № 3); Kievskaya, Belarusskaya, Novoslobodskaya, Komsomolskaya (the Ring line number 5). Let us dwell a bit on each.

Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line

Subway station "revolution square".

Most recently - in the year 2008-2010 – the Eastern lobby was renovated. Because of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow subway that took place several hours before the planned opening of the East lobby after renovation, the solemn part of the event was canceled.

Subway station Arbatskaya

Subway Arbatskaya is located on the same subway line as the station "Revolution Square." It was founded in 1953. It received the name in honor of the Arbat Street. It has one ground lobby (Western). Initially, the lobby was in a separate building, but the new building of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense started, the lobby appeared to be in its atrium. The old exits were bricked up; a new entrance was built into the building of General Staff of the street Vozdvizhenka. There is a huge frame with a missing portrait in the ground lobby - until mid-1950 there was a portrait of Stalin. According to some reports, it survived, but closed with plaster.

The lobby was restored and partially reconstructed in 2007-2008.

The depth of the station is 41 meters.

Pylons are finished with red marble at the bottom, decorated with bouquets of flowers made from ceramics. The floor is laid out with gray granite. The walls lined with glazed ceramic tiles, white top and black bottom. The station hall is illuminated by massive bronze chandeliers in the form of rings.

Subway station Kievskaya

There are several subway stations "Kievskaya" in Moscow, located on different branches. This name is quite popular. It comes from the capital of Ukraine - one of Russia's nearest neighbors - the city of Kiev. The name is fully consistent with the idea of the subway station. The interior the station devoted to Soviet Ukraine and the reunification of Ukraine and Russia. The station is decorated with a large number of paintings .Twenty four murals depicting workers of Soviet Ukraine are placed on the arch above the pylons. The wall from the side of platform also contains frescos, mainly with images of fantastic plants. Pylons are decorated with light marble and additionally decorated with colorful ceramic cornice. The butt of the station has a large mosaic, depicting festivities to celebrate the 300 anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine and Russia.

Opened in 1953, this subway station for a long time was the final (1953-2003).

The station has one lobby, combined with the station ring line and located in the building of the Kievskaya railway station. The diameter of the central hall station is 9.5 m, the diameter of side one is 8.5 m. The depth of the station is 38 meters.

= Ring Line Subway =

It opened in 1954. The station received its name after the Kiev station, and locked the Ring line. During the construction of the station many projects were proposed, but the victory in the competition won the Kiev architects who made the construction of the station. It is the only station of the Ring Line which is not located in the Central Administrative District of Moscow.

The station has a pylon structure. Eighteen pylons are decorated with mosaic panels of glazes, decorated on the theme of Ukrainian history and friendship between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, which started in the mid-17 century.

On the front wall of the central hall of the station a large panel with molding in the form of flags and a mosaic portrait of Lenin in the center are located. There are lines of the Soviet national anthem around the portrait, and under the portrait - the words of Lenin. One of the ways out of the station was designed by French architects modeled on the Paris Subway in 2006.

At one of the mosaics – “The Struggle for Soviet power in Ukraine "- modern passengers observe a mobile phone and PDA in the hand of one of the guerrillas, and on his knees - a laptop. In fact, he uses a field telephone, which was really a heavy thing (guerrillas holds it in two hands), and thing that people see a laptop is the lid of a box with a telephone. However, these phones have begun to produce only in the second half of the 20-ies of XX century. We must assume that the mosaic depicts a foreign field telephone transmitter.

Subway station Belorusskaya

The founded of the station was in 1952. It received the name after the Belarusian railway station nearby. The station has two ground-based lobbies. The Western one goes to Tverskaya  Zastava. It is decorated with beautiful carvings. The Eastern one leads to Butyrskiy shaft and Forest Street. The Eastern lobby is known for its majolica panels.

The station Belorusskaya is located at a depth of 42.5 m below ground. The diameter of the central hall is 9.5 meters.

Pylons are faced with light marble. The walls lined with white ceramic tiles, the floor is covered with ceramic tiles, gray, white and red colors. Lamps placed on pylons, in the form of vases made of glass and marble. The theme of decoration is economy and culture of Belarus. Decorative pattern on the floor repeats the theme of traditional Belarusian embroidery. Decorations of the ceiling consist of stucco decorations and 12 mosaic panels depicting the life of the Belarusian people.

Subway station Novoslobodskaya

Built in 1952, Subway station Novoslobodskaya got its name from the eponymous street:  the station is located at the very beginning of it.

Novoslobodskaya is pylon station of deep foundation (its depth is 40 m) with three arches.

Exit to the street is through the ground lobby with column portico, located on Novoslobodskaya Street lined with gray marble. Pylons of the underground station are faced with marble from the Urals. Thirty two spectacularly illuminated stained-glasses, placed inside the pylon and bordered by steel and gilt brass are splendid decoration of the station. A remarkable mosaic "World Peace" is located at the end of the central hall. The picture depicts a happy mother with a baby in her arms; it was the face of Stalin at the picture: the child gave a hand to him. But in times of Khrushchev the face of the former leader of USSR was removed from the panel. The walls are lined with bright marble; floor is covered with white and black granite slabs, placed in a checkerboard pattern.

Subway station Komsomolskaya

The station was built in 1952 and named in honor of the Komsomolskaya Square, which is situated nearby.

This subway station is the station of the deep bedding. Its depth is 37 meters. The station has column and three- arched design. Cast iron decoration is used in the construction, monolithic slab used as a tray for a collapsible finishing. The length of the boarding hall is 190 meters; width of it is 10 meters. There are 68 octagonal columns at station.

The main theme of the interior of the station is the fighting of the Russian people for their independence. The ceiling is decorated with eight station mosaic mural made from glazes and precious stones. Six of them represent the Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, Alexander Suvorov and Mikhail Kutuzov, the Soviet soldiers and officers at the walls of the Reichstag.

 Two other panels, depicting Stalin ("Victory Parade" and "Presentation of the Guards Banner"), were replaced after the dethronement of Stalin's personality cult in 1963. New panels depict Lenin's speech in front of the Red Guards and the Motherland on the background of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower.

The yellow ceiling is decorated with mosaic and moldings. The hall is illuminated by massive chandeliers hanging between the panels; platforms are illuminated with smaller chandeliers. The columns are decorated with marble capitals and trimmed with light marble, as well as the wall station. The floor is laid with pink granite. There is a bust of Lenin at the end of the hall. At the opposite end of the escalator is a large Florentine mosaic of the Order of Victory with red banners on the background. The ground lobby of the station is decorated with bas-reliefs.

In conclusion...

Each of the stations of the Moscow subway is attractive and interesting in its own way. Each has its own long and fascinating history and is beautifully decorated. The Moscow subway is a whole world, which can be talking about for hours. I suggest you short - no more than one hour and a half - and a fascinating journey through the world of the Moscow subway. The pleasure is guaranteed!

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Moscow metro private tours.

• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

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Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

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Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

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• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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Moscow Metro 2019

Will it be easy to find my way in the Moscow Metro? It is a question many visitors ask themselves before hitting the streets of the Russian capital. As metro is the main means of transport in Moscow – fast, reliable and safe – having some skills in using it will help make your visit more successful and smooth. On top of this, it is the most beautiful metro in the world !

. There are over 220 stations and 15 lines in the Moscow Metro. It is open from 6 am to 1 am. Trains come very frequently: during the rush hour you won't wait for more than 90 seconds! Distances between stations are quite long – 1,5 to 2 or even 3 kilometers. Metro runs inside the city borders only. To get to the airport you will need to take an onground train - Aeroexpress.

RATES AND TICKETS

Paper ticket A fee is fixed and does not depend on how far you go. There are tickets for a number of trips: 1, 2 or 60 trips; or for a number of days: 1, 3 days or a month. Your trips are recorded on a paper ticket. Ifyou buy a ticket for several trips you can share it with your traveling partner passing it from one to the other at the turnstile.

On every station there is cashier and machines (you can switch it to English). Cards and cash are accepted. 1 trip - 55 RUB 2 trips - 110 RUB

Tickets for 60 trips and day passes are available only at the cashier's.

60 rides - 1900 RUB

1 day - 230 RUB 3 days - 438 RUB 30 days - 2170 RUB.

The cheapest way to travel is buying Troyka card . It is a plastic card you can top up for any amount at the machine or at the ticket office. With it every trip costs 38 RUB in the metro and 21 RUB in a bus. You can get the card in any ticket office. Be prepared to leave a deposit of 50 RUB. You can get it back returning the card to the cashier.

SamsungPay, ApplePay and PayPass cards.

One turnstile at every station accept PayPass and payments with phones. It has a sticker with the logos and located next to the security's cabin.

GETTING ORIENTED

At the platfrom you will see one of these signs.

It indicates the line you are at now (line 6), shows the direction train run and the final stations. Numbers below there are of those lines you can change from this line.

In trains, stations are announced in Russian and English. In newer trains there are also visual indication of there you are on the line.

To change lines look for these signs. This one shows the way to line 2.

There are also signs on the platfrom. They will help you to havigate yourself. (To the lines 3 and 5 in this case).