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Gorokhovskoye peat narrow gauge railway

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Type
  
Narrow-gauge railway

Website
  
www.vyatkatorf.ru

Operator(s)
  
ЗАО «ВяткаТорф»

Locale
  
Kirov Oblast

Termini
  
Komsomol

Opened
  
1960

Line length
  
35 kilometres (22 mi)

Gorokhovskoye peat narrow-gauge railway

The Gorokhovskoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1960, and has a total length of which 35 kilometres (22 mi) is currently operational, the track gauge is 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in).

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Current status

Gorokhovskoye peat railway emerged in the 1960s, in the area Kotelnichsky District, in a settlement named Komsomolthe. The peat railway was built for hauling peat and workers and operates year-round. Operations consists of peat and passenger transport. Peat is transshipped on broad gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in) rail line and taken to Kirov to a combined heat and power (CHP) power station.

Locomotives

  • TU4 – № 818, 1323, 2961, 2594
  • ESU2A – № 848, 927

    • Railroad car

  • Boxcar
  • Flatcar
  • Tank car
  • Snowplow
  • Tank car – fire train
  • Passenger car
  • Open wagon for peat
  • Hopper car to transport track ballast

    • Work trains

  • Crane GK-5
  • Track UPS-1- № 50
  • Track laying cranes PPR2ma

    • References

    Gorokhovskoye peat narrow-gauge railway Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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