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Pishchalskoye peat narrow gauge railway

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Type
  
Narrow-gauge railway

Website
  
www.vyatkatorf.ru

Operator(s)
  
ЗАО «ВяткаТорф»

Locale
  
Kirov Oblast

Termini
  
Mirnyi

Opened
  
1963

Line length
  
35 kilometres (22 mi)

Pishchalskoye peat narrow-gauge railway

The Pishchalskoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1963 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

Pishchalskoye peat railway emerged in the 1963s, in the area Orichevsky District, in a settlement named Mirnyi. The railway was built for hauling peat and carrying workers to and from the peat extraction. The railway runs 3–4 cargo runs every day from two peat deposits. 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).

Locomotives

  • TU4 – № 2170, 2620, 3076, 2129, 2273
  • ESU2A – № 786, 434, 921, 102
  • TU6A – № 2172
  • TU6D – № 0159
  • TU8 – № 0426
  • PMD3 – № 156, 116 (№ 405)

    • Railroad car

  • 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- № 31
  • Track laying cranes PPR2ma

    • References

    Pishchalskoye peat narrow-gauge railway Wikipedia
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