Narrow gauge railways in Russia
Main article: Rail transport 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).
Overview
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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]
- Dymnoye peat narrow gauge railway is located in Kirov 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Otvorskoye peat narrow gauge railway is located in Kirov 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
Resource
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- This site contains material of Russian narrow gauge railways. uzd.spb
- A complete list of Russian and other ex-Soviet. narrow.parovoz.com
- «The site of the railroad» S. Bolashenko. infojd.ru
- Pereslavl Railway Museum. www.kukushka.ru
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