Otvorskoye peat railway

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).

[1] 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.