South of it, in the village of Imsum, used to be another, similarly minor station.
Most of the minor stations had three or four services each way.
In the early 1960s a number of minor stations were closed on the route.
The Russians had a minor naval station and a radar on the island.
This includes minor stations served by regional services.
Work on Hwange has led to a better situation and the three minor stations are scheduled to be revived in the first quarter of 2011.
It later came to mean any substantial railway station building (a different Russian word, stantsiya, is used for minor stations).
Also, this is only a minor station, and therefore is only a request stop.
It has 67 major and minor stations spread over a total route length of 618.8 kilometers.
By 1950, service had halved from its peak only five years earlier and cut back to a minor station in Bellflower.