Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries

Some pictures from a journey to Ukraine, Belarus and Latvia in the spring 2000. The main goal was to visiting narrow gauge lines used by industries. The journey was arranged by the book store Stenvals in Malmö.

Ukraina

Kovel
The station in Kovel late in the evening
June 13, 2000

ChME3-3875 and an EMU, probably ex ER9M 651 in Polonnoye
June 14, 2000

VL80K-127
VL80K-127 in Miropol
June 14, 2000

Between Miropol and Pershotravensk is narrow gauge line to a factory for electrical technical porcelain. The factory is owned by the government, and the production is small. The engines is in a very bad condition and this one is the only working.
June 14, 2000

Pershotravensk
A horse drawn carriage in Pershotravensk
June 14, 2000

Between Polonnoye and Burtin is 9 km long narrow gauge line to a brick factory. The line is not in use, and it was a lot vegetation on the tracks. At the way back we stoped at this bridge.
June 14, 2000

Polonnoye
The station in Polonnoye
June 14, 2000

Novograd Volinsky
A local bus in front of the station in Novograd Volinsky
June 15, 2000

The american build YEA 2026 during a pass through betwen Orepa and Kolodenka
June 15, 2000

An ordinary passenger train in Radoolino.
June 15, 2000

Pass through betwen Radoolino and Maidan Vila
June 15, 2000

A nice little bridge.

Maidan Vila
In Maidan Vila is a brick factory. The line to the clay-pit is 7 km. The picture is taken on the way back. The line is also used for transport of bricks from another factory to the station in Maidan Vila.
June 15, 2000

ChME3-3760
ChME3-3760 in Shepetovka
June 15, 2000

2M62U-0247
2M62U-0247 in Shepetovka
June 15, 2000

Where is a 30 km long narrow gauge line from Lisovody to the sugar-refinery in Vishnevchi. The factory is privatised and both the factory and the railway line is under renovation. A heavy rain during the night caused some problems and we had the opportunity to photograph the fire rescue car. The other pictures is taken on the way back to Lisovody.
The bus is of type GAZ (Gorkovskij avtozavod, Gorkij bilfabrik), and the fire rescue car is of type ZIL (Zavod imeni Lihatshova).
The bus and fire car facts comes from Timo Salminen. Timo has a nice webb page with pitures from Russia and Baltcum (and many finnish and swedish pictures). Timo Salminens webb page.
June 16, 2000

The station in Rovno from the street side and a stopping train in the afternoon
June 17, 2000

Belarus

The stations in Roodensk, Yanov-Polesskiy and Snitovo
June 11 and 12, 2000

ChME3-3659
ChME3-3659 at the yard Roodensk
June 11, 2000

Roodensk
Where is a peat factory in Pravdinski, a few km from Roodensk. We used this new painted bus to go to the factory. The bus is of type GAZ (Gorkovskij avtozavod, Gorkij auto factory).
June 11, 2000

The peat factory in Pravdinski.
The peat waggons is unloaded in the left picture. The right picture is at the line from the factory to the terminal at the broad gauge yard.
June 11, 2000

The steam engine P36.0064 at a drive through near Yasel
June 12, 2000

P36.0064

June 12, 2000

Zhitkovichi
Where is a peat factory in Zhitkovichi. Outside the workshop was this heavy load waggon.
June 12, 2000

In Leninskij (45 km east of Brest) is another peat factory. The factory has a 18 km long narrow gauge line to the peat fields in Sichevo. Some pictures from the line, including a frog.
June 13, 2000

Loading of peat wagons. Observe the unloading door which is not properly secured.
June 13, 2000

A tram at the end stop for line 1 in Minsk
June 11, 2000

Latvia

A train has just arrived on the narrow gauge line from Gulbene to Aluksne. The locomotive turns around and the train will go back to Gulbene
June 10, 2000

Gulbene
The station in Gulbene
June 10, 2000

TEM2-1282
TEM2-1282 in Gulbene
June 10, 2000

ChMEe-5964
ChMEe-5964, at the freight yard near the end stop for tramline 2 in Daugavpils
June 18, 2000
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Daugavpils
A tram in Daugavpils
June 18, 2000

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