Rail transport in Uzbekistan


Rail transport in Uzbekistan. As of March 2017, the total length of Uzbekistan's main railway network is 4,669 km. A large percentage of the system’s track requires major repair. The main line is the portion of the Transcaspian Railroad that connects Tashkent with the Amu Darya. There are rail links with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan. Suburban traffic only exists around Tashkent.

High speed rail

The Tashkent–Samarkand high-speed rail line; a line upgraded to high speed operation started operation in September 2011.

International links

Uzbekistan has links to Moscow, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Saratov, Penza and Saint Petersburg and Kharkiv. From Almaty connecting trains are provided to Urumchi in China. Also Tajik trains of Dushanbe-Moscow, Moscow-Dushanbe, Khujand-Saratov, Khujand-Atyrau, Saratov-Khujand, Khujand-Moscow, Moscow-Khujand, Kanibadam-Kurgonteppa, Kurgonteppa-Kanibadam and Atyrau-Khujand passes from Uzbekistan.
With only one change of trains in Moscow, passengers can travel overland from Central and Western Europe to Tashkent and vice versa.
The Karshi-Termez line, which extends across the border into Afghanistan, is being electrified.
In March 2018, Uzbekistan Railways began a new service, connecting Tashkent with Balykchy.

Metro lines

The Tashkent Metro was the only such line in Central Asia., until the opening of the Almaty Metro. Last development projects are detailed in Uzbekistan Railways website: http://www.railway.uz

Stats

4 669 km rail network carries about 40% of total freight volume in the country, and about 4% of the total land passenger volume. Around 2 350 km of the network is currently electrified, as of 2019.

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