Otvorskoye peat railway
2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) 
58°04′31″N 47°40′17″E / 58.0752729°N 47.6715059°E / 58.0752729; 47.6715059 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).[1]
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.[2]
Rolling stock
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
See also
- Narrow-gauge railways in Russia
- Gorokhovskoye peat railway
- Pishchalskoye peat railway
- Dymnoye peat railway
References and sources
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Otvorskoe peat narrow-gauge railway.
- Official Website (Russian language)
- Photo - project «Steam Engine» (Russian language)
- «The site of the railroad» S. Bolashenko (Russian language)
