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When Russia was still accessible to railway photographers: in September 2007, I visited the Ryazan–Tumskaya region east of Moscow. My goal was to explore the remaining 750 mm gauge railways in this area.
At that time, Tumskaya was the starting point of the very last remaining 750 mm gauge line operated by the Russian State Railways (RŽD). Broad-gauge trains reached Tumskaya from the north; the line had already been converted from 750 mm gauge to broad gauge decades earlier. The narrow-gauge line running south via Bolon’ to Ryazan had been abandoned around 1990. Only the short branch to Golovanova Datcha remained in operation.
This is the Tumskaya–Golovanova Datcha passenger service, photographed a few years before it too was discontinued. The trains ran only on Mondays and Fridays, with two return services from Tumskaya on each of those days. These allowed the inhabitants of the isolated forest village of Golovanova Datcha to travel to the town of Tumskaya in the morning and return in the afternoon.
One of my favourite views.
Krabbenspinne (alle) (Thomisidae (Gattung.) indet.)
(c) Christa Hoffmann
