Narrow-gauge railways in Russia

Main article: Rail transport 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.

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

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D2-002, Sakhalin Railway Snowplow, Apsheronsk railway TU7A–3042, Kirov Oblast Log train, Udimskaya railway Log train, Belorucheiskaya railway

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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 underwent conversion to 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) from 2003 to 2019.
* 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 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

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* Kambarka Engineering Works
* List of Russian narrow gauge railways rolling stock

## Resource

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to NGR in Russia.

* 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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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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