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» Russian Railways (more..)
» D2 (more..) |
» Bykov station
» Bykov, Sakhalin region, Russia (more..)
» March 11, 2013 |
| Locomotive No./Train ID |
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» D2-008 (more..)
» Unknown |
» Aleksei Zadonskii (more..)
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| Remarks & Notes |
| D2-008 DMU train at the endpoint Bykov station of the dead-end branch from Sokol to Bykov. Now Bykov is a village and now in this railway line there is only a local train to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (which is on this photo) but in the past Bykov was a coal mining town. D2 were manufactured in 1985 by Fuji Heavy Industries (Japan) for Soviet Union for use on a Sakhalin railway with a track gauge of 1067 mm (as in Japan). The Sakhalin railway was mainly built by the Japanese according to their standards using the labor of Korean workers when the southern part of Sakhalin (south of the 50th parallel) belonged to Japan and named Karafuto (between 1905 and 1945). A consequence of this is the difference in gauge on the Sakhalin island from the continental part of Russia, but since 2003 JSC "Russian Railways" is working on a replacement the gauge to Russian 1520 mm. The most ambitious work is planned for this year and completion of all work is scheduled for 2020. |
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