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| Uzbekistan Rail Network | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bukhara train station | |||||
| Operation | |||||
| National railway | Uzbek Railways | ||||
| System length | |||||
| Total | 4,714 kilometres (2,929 mi) | ||||
| Track gauge | |||||
| Main | 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) | ||||
| Features | |||||
| No. bridges | 132 | ||||
| Longest bridge | Turtkul 4,065 metres (13,337 ft) | ||||
| No. stations | 1332 | ||||
| Highest elevation | 1,444 metres (4,738 ft) | ||||
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As of March 2017, the total length of Uzbekistan's main railway network is 4,714 kilometres (2,929 mi) (2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) of which is electrified).[1] A large percentage of the system's track requires major repair. The main line is the portion of theTrans-Caspian railway that connectsTashkent with theAmu Darya. There are rail links withKazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan (seeTrans-Caspian Railway),Tajikistan,Afghanistan, andTurkmenistan. Suburban traffic only exists around Tashkent.
TheTashkent–Bukhara high-speed rail line started operation in September 2011 after being upgraded.[2]
Uzbekistan has one town tramway system, which islocated in Samarkand. The modern, electrified system opened its first line in 2017, and is the first system to operate in Samarkand since the Soviet-era system was disestablished in 1973.
Uzbekistan is currently constructing a tram in Tashkent which is expected to be completed in 2024. The tram will be provided by French company Alstom.
Uzbekistan has links toMoscow,Ufa,Chelyabinsk,Novosibirsk,Saratov,Penza andSaint Petersburg (via Kazakhstan) andKharkiv (via Kazakhstan and Russia, it was suspended since theWar in Donbas began in 2014). From Almaty connecting trains are provided to Urumchi in China. Also Tajik trains of Dushanbe-Moscow (No: 319), Moscow-Dushanbe (No: 320),Khujand-Saratov (No: 335), Khujand-Atyrau (No: 335), Saratov-Khujand (No: 336), Khujand-Moscow (No: 359), Moscow-Khujand (No: 360), Kanibadam-Bokhtar (No: 389), Bokhtar-Kanibadam (No: 389) andAtyrau-Khujand (No: 692) passes from Uzbekistan.
With only one change of trains in Moscow, passengers can travel overland from Central and Western Europe (Berlin, Cologne, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Helsinki, etc.) to Tashkent and vice versa.[3]
TheKarshi-Termez line, which extends across the border intoAfghanistan, is being electrified.[4]
In March 2018,Uzbekistan Railways began a new service, connectingTashkent withBalykchy.[5]
TheChina–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway, which started construction in 2025, aims to build 523 km of new track (50 km of which is in Uzbekistan) connectingKashgar,China viaKyrgyzstan toAndijan.
TheTashkent Metro was the only such line in Central Asia, until the opening of theAlmaty Metro. Last development projects are detailed inUzbekistan Railways website.[6]
4,714 kilometres (2,929 mi) 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.[7]
A weekly train running the route from the capital of Uzbekistan to Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul region was set to depart on its maiden trip on the evening of March 22 [...] The train traveling from Tashkent to Balykchy, a town on the western end of Issyk-Kul Lake, will be able to carry up to 300 passengers.