Gorokhovskoye Peat Railway
58°10′45″N 48°00′42″E / 58.17906°N 48.01180°E
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).
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 consist 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.
Rolling stock
Locomotives
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
Gallery
See also
References and sources
- ^ Gorokhovskoe peat
- ^ "Gorokhovskoe peat railway". Archived from the original on 2021-02-27. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gorokhovskoe peat narrow-gauge railway.
- Official Website (in Russian)
- Photo – project «Steam Engine» (in Russian)
- «The site of the railroad» S. Bolashenko Archived 2021-02-27 at archive.today (in Russian)