Gorokhovskoye peat railway

The Gorokhovskoye peat railway is located in Kirov Oblast, Russia.

The peat railway was opened in 1960, 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).

[1] Gorokhovskoye peat railway emerged in the 1960s, in the area Kotelnichsky District, in a settlement named Komsomolthe.

Operations consist of peat and passenger transport.

Peat is transshipped on broad gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) rail line and taken to Kirov to a combined heat and power (CHP) power station.