The Imperial Russian narrow 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 forestry and peat industries in low inhabited places. Usually they have one main line and number of temporary branches. There was commonly a passenger service to villages and towns for workers.
As of the mid 2010s, a number of industrial railways survive in places with bad roads, but every year some railways are closing.
A government railway operator, RZD, closed all owned common 750 mm railways, but still have a number of children's railways with standard rolling stock.
The most well-known narrow-gauge railways are Alapayevsk narrow-gauge railway (municipal passenger), Apsheronsk narrow-gauge railway (mountain industrial railway with passenger service), and Karinskaya narrow-gauge railway (suburban passenger private railway). Also children's railways are located in many big cities.
Kp4-469 , Pereslavl Railway
Overview
D2-002, Sakhalin Railway
Snowplow , Apsheronsk railway
TU7A–3042 , Kirov Oblast
Log train, Udimskaya railway
Log train, Belorucheiskaya railway
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750mm
Alapayevsk narrow-gauge railway is located in the Sverdlovsk Oblast , Alapayevsk .[ 2]
Altsevo peat railway is located in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast , closed in 2015.
Apsheronsk narrow-gauge railway the largest mountain railway in Russia.[ 3] [ 4]
Belorucheiskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in Vologda Oblast .
Dymnoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast .
Gladkoye narrow-gauge railway is located in Leningrad Oblast .
Gorokhovskoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast .
Gusevskoye peat railway is located in Vladimir Oblast .
Kerzhenets peat 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 , closed in 2018.
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 railway is located in Novgorod Oblast .
Laryan narrow-gauge railway is located in Leningrad Oblast .
Loyginskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast .
Lundanskaya narrow gauge railway is located in Kirov Oblast .
Mesherskoye peat railway is located in Ryazan Oblast .
Mokeiha-Zybinskoe peat railway is located in Yaroslavl Oblast , closed in 2016.
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 , closed in 2020.
Nyubskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast .
Pereslavl Railway Museum is located in Yaroslavl Oblast .[ 6]
Pelgorskoye peat railway is located in Leningrad Oblast .
Pishchalskoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast .
Pizhemskaya narrow gauge railway , is located in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast .
Ronga narrow gauge railway , is located in the Mari El , closed in 2020.
Oparinskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in Kirov Oblast , closed in 2020.
Otvorskoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast , closed in 2020.
Sharya Forest Museum Railway is located in Kostroma Oblast .
Solotchinskoye peat railway is located in Ryazan Oblast .
Tumskaja–Golowanowa Datscha railway line , closed in 2008, part of the Gorky Railway
Tyosovo peat railway is located in Novgorod Oblast .
Udimskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast .
Zelennikovskaya narrow-gauge railway is located in Arkhangelsk Oblast , closed in 2018.
See also
Resource
This site contains material of Russian narrow-gauge railways. uzd.spb (in Russian)
A complete list of Russian and other ex-Soviet. narrow.parovoz.com (in Russian)
«The site of the railroad» S. Bolashenko. infojd.ru (in Russian)
Pereslavl Railway Museum. www.kukushka.ru (in Russian)
References
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