Narrow-gauge railways in Russia

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.

Main article: Rail transport in Russia

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

1067mm
  • 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 underwent conversion to 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in) from 2003 to 2019.
  • Kulebaki Factory Railway is located in Kulebaki.[1]

750mm

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
  1. "Kulebaki Factory Railway".
  2. "Alapayevsk railway".
  3. "Apsheronsk railway".
  4. "Tourist Railway".
  5. "Kudemskaya railway Forbes". Archived from the original on 2014-02-03.
  6. "Pereslavl Railway Museum".
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