Modernization of historical railway station complexes in small cities (on the example of Alexeevka station, Belgorod region)

Against the backdrop of the development of modern large, small and medium-sized cities, the problems of modernizing the transport infrastructure, including railway station complexes, appear especially acute. Particularly challenging is the problem of modernizing historically established railway stations. Most of the modernization studies on this issue are mainly concerned with the modernization of large and mega station complexes with growing passenger traffic, while railway facilities in small cities and towns are just touched upon. Such railway stations have been reviewed and studied in this work, resulting in the creation of a universal algorithm for developing a conceptual design proposal for architectural modernization of historically established railway station complexes in small towns based on a sequentially performed process. For testing the conceptual design proposal, small station complexes of the Belgorod region are proposal, we suggest applying it to small railway stations in Belgorod region, in particular the railway station in the city of Alekseevka in this region.