Pishchalskoye peat railway

The Pishchalskoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1963[1] and has a total length of which 35 kilometres (22 mi) is currently operational; the track gauge is 750 mm (2 ft 5 ¹⁄₂ in).

Pishchalskoye peat railway
Overview
Locale	Kirov Oblast, Russia
Termini	Mirnyi
Website	www.vyatkatorf.ru
Service
Type	Narrow-gauge railway
Operator(s)	ЗАО «ВяткаТорф»
History
Opened	1963
Technical
Line length	35 kilometres (22 mi)
Track gauge	750 mm (2 ft 5 ^1⁄2 in)
Route map

Current status

Pishchalskoye peat railway emerged in the 1963s, in the area Orichevsky District, in a settlement named Mirnyi. The railway was built for hauling peat and carrying workers to and from the peat extraction. The railway runs 3–4 cargo runs every day from two peat deposits.[2] 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).[3]

Rolling stock

TU4-2129 with passenger train

Locomotives

• TU4 – № 2170, 2620, 3076, 2129, 2273
• ESU2A – № 786, 434, 921, 102
• TU6A – № 2172
• TU6D – № 0159
• TU8 – № 0426
• PMD3 – № 156, 116 (№ 405)

Railroad car

• Flatcar
• Tank car
• Snowplow
• Tank car – fire train
• Passenger car
• Open wagon for peat
• Hopper car to transport track ballast

Work trains

• Crane GK-5
• Track UPS-1- № 31
• Track laying cranes PPR2ma

Gallery

• 
  Locomotive TU4-2170 with freight train
• 
  Locomotive TU4-2620 with passenger train
• 
  Locomotives TU4-2129 and TU4-2170
• 
  Draisine PMD3-116 (№ 405)

See also

Narrow-gauge railways in Russia Gorokhovskoye peat railway

Dymnoye peat railway Otvorskoye peat railway

References and sources

1. Anniversaries and Events 1960-1969.
2. Neues von russischen Schmalspurbahnen. Archived 2014-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
3. Pishchalskoye peat railway

External links

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