Dymnoye peat narrow-gauge railway

Dymnoye peat railway
Overview
Type	Narrow-gauge railway
Locale	Kirov Oblast, Russia
Termini	Svetlopolyansk
Website	www.vyatkatorf.ru
Operation
Opened	1967
Operator(s)	ЗАО «ВяткаТорф»
Technical
Line length	79 kilometres (49 mi)
Track gauge	750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Route map

Coordinates: 59°25′14″N 52°22′34″E / 59.42065°N 52.37607°E / 59.42065; 52.37607 The Dymnoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1967, and has a total length of 79 kilometres (49 mi) is currently operational, the track gauge is 750 mm (2 ft 5 ¹⁄₂ in).^[1]

Current status

locomotive TU4 – № 2790

Dymnoye peat railway emerged in the 1967s, in the area Verkhnekamsky District, in a settlement named Svetlopolyansk. The railway was built for hauling peat and workers and operates year-round with several pairs of trains a day. 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).^[2]

Rolling stock

Gallery

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  Railway bridges
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  Building
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  Narrow-gauge railway
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  Classification yard
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  Rotary car dumper
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  Rotary car dumper

References and sources

See also

• Narrow-gauge railways in Russia
• Gorokhovskoye peat narrow-gauge railway
• Otvorskoye peat narrow-gauge railway
• Pishchalskoye peat narrow-gauge railway

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dymnoe peat narrow-gauge railway.

• Official Website (in Russian)
• The scheme of the railway (in Russian)
• Photo - project «Steam Engine» (in Russian)
• «The site of the railroad» S. Bolashenko (in Russian)