Narrow gauge railways in Russia
The Imperial Russian narrow gauge railway track gauge was 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm), the current track gauge is predominantly 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in). In Soviet Russia narrow gauge railways were mostly common in forestly and peat industry in low inhabited places. Usually they have a one mainline and number of temporary branches. There was common a passenger services to villages and towns for workers. In the mid 2010s a number of industrial railways survive in places with bad roads, but every year some railways still closing. A government railway operator, RZD closed all own common 750 mm railways, but still have much count of children railways with standard rolling stock.
Most well known narrow gauge railways are Alapayevsk narrow-gauge railway (municipal passenger), Apsheronsk narrow-gauge railway (mointain industrial railway with passenger service), Karinskaya narrow-gauge railway (suburban passenger private railway). Also Children railways located in many big cities.
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- Sakhalin Railway. This railway was built by Japan who occupied southern Sakhalin after the Russo-Japanese War. The network was extended to the northern part of the island in the Soviet era. It was the last Russian railway in 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) and is currently converted to 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in).
- Kulebaki Factory Railway is located in Kulebaki.[1]
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- Alapayevsk narrow-gauge railway is located in the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Alapayevsk.[2]
- Altsevo peat narrow gauge railway is located in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.
- Apsheronsk narrow-gauge railway the largest mountain railway in Russia.[3][4]
- Belorucheiskaya narrow gauge railway is located in Vologda Oblast.
- Dymnoye peat narrow gauge railway is located in Kirov Oblast.
- Gladkoye narrow gauge railway is located in Leningrad Oblast.
- Gorokhovskoye peat narrow gauge railway is located in Kirov Oblast.
- Gusevskoye peat narrow gauge railway is located in Vladimir Oblast.
- Kerzhenets peat narrow gauge railway is located in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, closed in 2014.
- Kobrinskaya narrow gauge railway is located in Kirov Oblast.
- Konetsgorskaya narrow gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast.
- Kudemskaya narrow-gauge railway has appeared in Forbes.ru ranking one of the 10 most beautiful railway lines of the world in the year 2010.[5]
- Kushaverskoye peat narrow gauge railway is located in Novgorod Oblast.
- Loyginskaya narrow gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast.
- Mesherskoye peat narrow gauge railway is located in Ryazan Oblast.
- Mokeiha-Zybinskoe peat narrow gauge railway is located in Yaroslavl Oblast.
- Narrow gauge railway of Decor-1 factory, is located in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.
- Narrow gauge railway of Caprolactam factory, is located in the Dzerzhinsk, closed in 2013.
- Narrow gauge railway of KSM-2 factory, is located in the Tver.
- Nyubskaya narrow gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast.
- Pereslavl Railway Museum is located in Yaroslavl Oblast.[6]
- Pelgorskoye peat narrow gauge railway is located in Leningrad Oblast.
- Pishchalskoye peat narrow gauge railway is located in Kirov Oblast.
- Oparinskaya narrow gauge railway is located in Kirov Oblast.
- Otvorskoye peat narrow gauge railway is located in Kirov Oblast.
- Sharya Forest Museum Railway is located in Kostroma Oblast.
- Solotchinskoye peat narrow gauge railway is located in Ryazan Oblast.
- Tumskaja–Golowanowa Datscha railway line, closed in 2008, part of the Gorky Railway
- Tyosovo peat narrow gauge railway is located in Novgorod Oblast.
- Udimskaya narrow gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast.
- Zelennikovskaya narrow gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast.
See also
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- This site contains material of Russian narrow gauge railways. uzd.spb (Russian)
- A complete list of Russian and other ex-Soviet. narrow.parovoz.com (Russian)
- «The site of the railroad» S. Bolashenko. infojd.ru (Russian)
- Pereslavl Railway Museum. www.kukushka.ru (Russian)