Pizhemskaya narrow gauge railway
| Pizhemskaya narrow gauge railway | |||
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| Overview | |||
| Locale | Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia | ||
| Termini | Pizhma | ||
| Website | www.rosplit.ru | ||
| Service | |||
| Type | Narrow-gauge railway | ||
| Operator(s) | LLC «Pizhmales» | ||
| History | |||
| Opened | 1926 | ||
| Technical | |||
| Line length | 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) | ||
| Track gauge | 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) | ||
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57°51′49″N 47°08′06″E / 57.863482°N 47.134987°E The Pizhemskaya narrow gauge railway (Russian: Пижменская узкоколейная железная дорога, Pizhemskaya uzkokoleynaya zheleznaya doroga) is a narrow-gauge railway in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, built as an industrial railway (forest railway) for logging operations. The forest railway was opened in 1926, has a total length of 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) and is operational as of 2017, the track gauge is 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) and operates year-round.[1]
Current status
Planning for the railway and building began in 1926. The Pizhemskaya
track.[2]
Rolling stock
Locomotives
Railroad cars
- Tank car
- Bunk Car "Teplushka"
- Railway log-car and flatcar
- Hopper car to transport track ballast
Work trains
- Snowplow PS-1
See also
- Narrow-gauge railways in Russia
- Narrow-gauge railway of Decor-1 factory
- List of Russian narrow-gauge railways rolling stock
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pizhmenskaya narrow gauge railway.
- Pizhemskaya narrow gauge railway «The site of the railroad» S. Bolashenko (in Russian)
- Pizhemskaya logging railroad 2006 (in Russian)
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