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This year's first technological "window" for laying the broad gauge was held in Sakhalin. The work was carried out on the stretch Chekhov - Tomari. It was here that in the autumn of 2016 the next planned laying was completed, while on this section of the route along the western coast of the island there was an unfinished segment 25 km long. During May-June, the work here will be completed, and the track equipment complex will be relocated to the Ilyinskoye - Arsentievka stage, the press service of the Far Eastern Railway reports.

In 2017, serious preparations were made for the two-year final stage of the transition of the narrow island highway to network-wide gauge standards. Survey work has been carried out to develop design documentation for all old bridges, a powerful base has been set up for the accumulation of rail-sleeper lattice coming from the mainland, bridge trusses, materials for the upper structure of the track.

A lot has been done, but this year we have much more to do, - said Alexander Gavrilenko, Deputy Head of the Far Eastern Railway for the Sakhalin Region. - It is necessary not only to lay more than fifty kilometers of an asymmetric rail-sleeper grid, to build about 30 new bridges on the Arsentievka-Buyukly line, but most importantly, to lay a serious foundation for the subsequent stages after the completion of the transfer of the island highway to a wide gauge.

Recall that since 2003, Sakhalin has been laying a rail-sleeper grid under a combined gauge of 1067/1520 mm. During this period, more than 600 km of track were laid on three-strand sleepers, which is two thirds of the total length. The volume of invested investments exceeded 19 billion rubles.

Given the critical role of the railway in ensuring the socio-economic stability of the region and the smooth functioning of the region's most important enterprises, it is time to complete the entire range of works by 2020.

In 2018, work is to be done on laying 52.4 km of rail and sleeper grid on combined reinforced concrete sleepers. Next year, 2019, it is planned to complete work on re-laying the track to 1520 mm gauge throughout Sakhalin, except for the Kholmsk-Shakhty section, which will be rebuilt in 2020.

Suburban diesel train D2 is preparing to depart to Novoderevenskaya station. The post consists of two parts - about the SakhZhD Museum and about the general railway life here.
The main station of the island is Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk station.

Historically, the first railway lines appeared here after the Russian-Japanese war in the southern (then Japanese) part of the island. First of all, communication with the port of Korsakov (Oodomari) and then gradually and further south, to the border, to the 50th parallel - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Toyohara) - Starodubskoye (Sakaehama), then the road along the western part of the island of Nevelsk (Honto) - Ilyinsky (Kussyunay). By the thirties, the network was already quite dense and belonged not only to the state. There were also private lots. In the Russian part (less developed) there were only narrow-gauge railways for the export of coal and timber.

Japanese Railways Administration Building on Sakhalin.

After the war, there were even attempts to connect the mainland railway network with the island's network using the Cape Perish - Lazarev tunnel. After the death of I.V. Stalin, these attempts were curtailed, although a lot of money and effort was spent.

The influence of the Japanese has been preserved on the railway life here up to the present. The rolling stock is already almost all Russian, but believe me - everything looks very, very different from the mainland. Therefore, the profile museum of SakhZhD is a place that must be visited without fail.

D51 series steam locomotive 1948

I wonder how he got here, because obviously not a trophy? So it was bought somewhere specifically for Sakhalin?

Behind him, in the shade, is a gathering place for various scourged citizens, by the way.

Since 1998, all the island's roads have been rebuilt to our standard, and this implies not only re-laying of the roadbed, but also a new dimension, for example, for tunnels and station structures. I don’t know if this event is over, in full swing, or if the rails have not been touched at all.

Here is a kind of installation about the past.

Types of wagons used.

In the corner of the picture, you can see an An-12 cargo plane approaching Khomutovo. I say - everything happens above the center.

Soviet-built locomotive TU7, used on narrow-gauge railways and here, on the mainland.

Semaphore with cable system.

Locomotive-snowplow based on diesel locomotive TG-16.

Rotary screw with such a mouth.

But he's not the only one here. Snowplow DVGD-51 (K-600) - a device literally for gnawing a path in the snow.

And here is a very historical snowplow "Wajima".

It may seem to some that there are too many similar snowplows here. Well, then this person has a bad idea of ​​\u200b\u200bwinter on Sakhalin. Here is from fresh:

"On the morning of December 31, at the Zaozernaya-Pugachevo station section of the Sakhalin Railway (219 km), a diesel locomotive and a snowplow (SDPM) were knocked out of the way by a snow avalanche."
http://www.skr.su/?div=skr&id=60566 .

It's digging him out.

And this is the fast train Nogliki - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Let's continue.

25-ton tank car, 1954. The only strange thing is that the information on the barrel seemed to have been painted over and applied again. Maybe the railroad workers are lying.

Suburban diesel train "KiHa-02", once bought in Japan for local conditions.

Now it has been replaced by the suburban Japanese D-2. It is more modern, of course, but it is also quite suitable for a museum. And at the moment it operates four pairs of flights a day - two to Bykov and two to Novoderevenskaya.

In general, the schedule is very modest -

Suburb - Novoderevenskaya and Bykov (two flights each, one to Bykov is sent empty and does not appear in the schedule). Cars with aunts go to Tomari and Korsakov (I don’t know why they don’t drive D-2 to Korsakov). And long-distance travel is quite tiny - a nine-hundred day train to Tymovsk and two night trains to Nogliki (Express No. 1:) and the people's 601).

The schedule has been compiled and is valid at local time (+7 hours Moscow time), but long-distance tickets indicate Moscow anyway. The Express system, apparently, does not know how otherwise.

Train No. 602 Nogliki - Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk arrives.

You will not find such locomotives TG-16 of the Lyudinovsky plant here either. Moreover, there are no others here - neither the traction passenger ones that are familiar to us, nor the traction cargo ones. Such a strange choice is due to difficult natural conditions, for which, for some reason, Lyudin's diesel locomotives are best suited.

But the wagons are the most ordinary.

099 from the top in the digital cipher, this is precisely the belonging to the SakhZhD (once it was a branch of the Far East Railway, but since April 15, 1992 it has been autonomous and independent).

Let's look at the map of the island's railways.

The main passenger artery is the trans-Sakhalin route Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Nogliki, and the remaining branches are essentially access roads to ports, terminals and mining sites. Passengers are not welcome there.

Plus, the map is also lying, the road Yu.-S. - Nikolaychuk - Kholmsk dismantled.

Having bought a ticket for tomorrow to Tymovsk station in the north of the island, I planned today to visit the abandoned tunnels on the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk-Nikolaichuk-Kholmsk road and mud volcanoes near the village of Klyuchi, and the next day to go to the north of the island and visit the city of Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, the former capital islands (and penal servitude), then the Russian part of the island. Now it is an ordinary regional center, and once (with a fair amount of irony) Aleksandrovsk was called "Sakhalin Paris".

The next posts will be about it.

Railway workers and regional authorities are successfully working on a project to rebuild the narrow gauge railway operating on Sakhalin to the all-Russian format. Its implementation will allow refusing to purchase rare and expensive narrow-gauge equipment, as well as rearranging wheel sets, according to the website of the island government.

Today, when delivering wagons from the mainland to the island and back, this costly operation is indispensable. The transition to a broad gauge will make it possible to purchase new comfortable passenger cars and increase the volume of freight traffic by rail. Due to this, the load on the roads of the region will decrease, and traffic safety will increase.

Nikolai Maklygin thanked the leadership of the region for supporting the island railway workers. In 2016, they transferred 850 million rubles in the form of taxes to the budget of the island region. This year, the amount has increased markedly, it amounted to one billion rubles in just 10 months.

Then, the ceremony of signing an agreement between the government of the Sakhalin Region and the Russian Railways Open Joint Stock Company on interaction and cooperation in the field of railway transport for 2017-2019 took place.

The document provides for a number of areas of cooperation. The parties will work together on the Sakhalin Island Railway Infrastructure Modernization project. It is part of a comprehensive project - "Construction of the railway line from the mainland - Sakhalin Island with the passage through the Nevelskoy Strait and the development of the railway network of Sakhalin Island." Also, the regional government and Russian Railways plan to cooperate on the development and modernization of the railway infrastructure, passenger rolling stock of the suburban complex.