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Otvorskoye peat narrow gauge railway

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Type
  
Narrow-gauge railway

Website
  
www.vyatkatorf.ru

Operator(s)
  
ЗАО «ВяткаТорф»

Locale
  
Kirov Oblast

Termini
  
Svetlyi

Opened
  
1964

Line length
  
32 kilometres (20 mi)

Otvorskoye peat narrow-gauge railway

The Otvorskoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1964 and has a total length of which 32 kilometres (20 mi) is currently operational, the track gauge is 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in).

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Current status

Otvorskoye peat railway emerged in the 1964s, in the area Kotelnichsky District, in a settlement named Svetlyi. The railway was built for hauling peat and carrying workers to and from the peat extraction. Peat is transshipped on broad-gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in) rail line and taken to Kirov, Sharyu to a combined heat and power (CHP) station.

Locomotives

  • TU4 – № 1335, 1387, 2187, 2188, 2923
  • TU6D – № 0201
  • ESU2A – № 436

    • Railroad car

  • Boxcar
  • Flatcar
  • Tank car
  • Snowplow
  • Crane (railroad)
  • Tank car - fire train
  • Passenger car (rail)
  • Track laying cranes
  • Open wagon for peat
  • Hopper car to transport track ballast

    • References

    Otvorskoye peat narrow-gauge railway Wikipedia
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