title: Otvorskoye peat railway
text: # Otvorskoye peat railway
  
  58°04′31″N 47°40′17″E﻿ / ﻿58.0752729°N 47.6715059°E﻿ / 58.0752729; 47.6715059 The Otvorskoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast, Russia. The peat railway was opened in 1964 and has a total length of which 32 kilometres (20 mi) is currently operational; the track gauge is 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in).
  
  ## Current status
  
  Otvorskoye peat railway emerged in the 1964s, in the area Kotelnichsky District, in a settlement named Svetlyi. The railway was built for hauling peat and carrying workers to and from the peat extraction. 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) station.
  
  ## Rolling stock
  
  ### Locomotives
  
  * TU4 – № 1335, 1387, 2187, 2188, 2923
  * TU6D – № 0201
  * ESU2A – № 436
  
  ### Railroad car
  
  * Boxcar
  * Flatcar
  * Tank car
  * Snowplow
  * Crane (railroad)
  * Tank car – fire train
  * Passenger car (rail)
  * Track laying cranes
  * Open wagon for peat
  * Hopper car to transport track ballast
  