It is 24 km down-line from Moskovsky railway station and is situated between Sankt-Peterburg-Moskovsky-Sortirovochny (Obukhovo team tracks) and Sablino on the Saint Petersburg — Moscow line.

[2] Kolpino station was opened on 9 May 1843 with the construction of the first in Russian Empire double tracked Saint Petersburg–Moscow Railway.

The new station building was not built because of enacted resolution "On the elimination of excesses in design and construction" not long after the death of Stalin in 1953.

By the beginning of the 1990s two stone buildings on both sides of the railway tracks with ticket offices, waiting room and toilet were erected.

Line had one stop in the middle, and its main purpose was transportation of workers to Kolpino's Izhorskiye Zavody industrial complex.