Sharya Forest Museum Railway

Sharya Forest Museum Railway
Overview
Locale	Kostroma Oblast, Russia
Termini	Sharya
Service
Type	Narrow gauge railway
Operator(s)	Sharya Forest Museum
History
Opened	2014
Technical
Line length	2 kilometres (1.2 mi)
Track gauge	750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in)
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Coordinates: 58°22′57″N 45°29′39″E / 58.382534°N 45.494091°E / 58.382534; 45.494091 The Sharya Forest Museum Railway (Russian: Узкоколейная железная дорога Шарьинского музея леса) is a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in)-gauge forest railway based at open-air Sharya Forest Museum located in Sharya, opened in 2014.^[1]

Current status[]

The Sharya Forest Museum Railway is a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) narrow gauge railroad loop passing through the Sharya Park in Kostroma Oblast.^[2] The museum railway was opened in 2014. It has a total length of 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) and is operational as of 2016. The exhibit consists mostly of locomotives, passenger and freight cars, tractors, skidders, forestry vehicles and machines.^[3][4]

Museum's collection[]

The museum owns many interesting vehicles, which are important for the Russian railway and forestry history including:

Locomotives and draisines[]

• TU8 – No. 0167^[5]
• Draisine – TD-5u

Railway cars[]

• Passenger car – PV-40T

Aeronautical engineering[]

• — An-2 (RA-29327)

See also[]

• Sharya
• Narrow gauge railways in Russia
• List of Russian narrow gauge railways rolling stock

References[]

External links[]

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