Kerschenez peat track
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 Unloading point at the peat briquette factory
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 Route of the Kerschenez peat railway
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| Route length: | 14 km |
| Gauge : | 750 mm ( narrow gauge ) |
The Torfbahn Kerzhenets River ( Russian Узкоколейная железная дорога Керженского торфопредприятия , transkr. Uskokoleinaja schelesnaja doroga Kerschenskowo torfopredpijatija , transl. Uzkokolejnaâ železnaâ doroga Kerženskogo torfopredpriâtiâ ) is a narrow-gauge railway near boron in the Nizhny Novgorod in Russia .
history
The 14 km long peat railway was put into operation in 1945. The narrow-gauge railway has a track width of 750 mm and is still used all year round by OAO "Борресурсы" for transporting peat and workers. The route runs from the north end of Kerzhenets River north into the peat fields.
Until 1997, the railway terminus was in the Pionersky settlement on the Kerzhenets River . The peat briquette factory "Bor Torf" (Russian ЗАО "Борская торфяная компания" ) was built there in 2002 and started operating in 2004.
Rail vehicles
Locomotives and draisines
- Diesel locomotive of the SŽD series ТУ8 - № 0307
- Draisine of the ESU2A series - № 925
More vehicles
Further vehicles are peat structures and several open freight cars, tank cars, a snow blower and a crane car .
Tracks, lorries and buildings
Peat briquette factory 
Peat briquette factory 
Peat peat
More narrow-gauge railways
Of the large number of narrow-gauge railways that were built from the 1930s onwards mainly for the removal of wood and peat and were mostly still in operation in the 1980s, there is only one other peat railroad in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast today (as of 2016) received, the Alzewo peat railway . There are also some factory railways , for example at the Kaprolaktam chemical factory in Dzerzhinsk and at the Peschelan plaster works near Arsamas .
Web links
- Kerzhenets River interactive map (English)
Coordinates: 56 ° 28 ′ 25.2 " N , 44 ° 25 ′ 28.5" E