Bishkek – Balyktschy railway line
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 Rybachye Railway Station in Balyktschy
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| Route length: | 167.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1520 mm ( Russian gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 60 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Bishkek – Balyktschy railway line is in Kyrgyzstan .
Technical parameters
The railway line was built in the Russian gauge of 1520 mm. It is single-track and not electrified. The route is owned and operated by the Kyrgyz state railway, Kyrgys Temir Dscholu .
Routing
The route leads over a length of about 168 km from Bishkek to east across Kant , Tokmok and Kemin after balykchy at the western end of the Issyk Kul -Sees. From Tokmok east to Kemin, the route runs south parallel to the A 365 national road and the Tschüi river , which forms the border with Kazakhstan here. Then it follows - like the A 365 - the Tschui, as it turns on a distance of around 60 km first to the southeast, then to the southwest and finally again to the south-southeast through the narrow Boom Gorge and the two mountain ranges of the Kyrgyz Alatau ( Kyrgyz Кыргыз Ала-Тоосу ) and the Kungej-Alatau ( Kyrgyz Күнгөй Ала-Тоо ) winds until it finally runs eastwards again for the last 30 km to Balyktschy.
history
In 1931 the section from Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, to Kant was opened. The section from Kant to Kemin (then: Bystrowka) followed in 1942. The last section to Balyktschy (then: Rybatschje) was not completed until 1950. The Balyktschy railway station is still called "Рыбачье" (Rybachye).
business
A passenger train from Bishkek to Balyktschy runs three times a week. In the bathing season from mid-July to the end of August, it runs daily - in the early morning to Balyktschy and in the afternoon back to Bishkek. Another train runs daily from Bishkek to Kant and Tokmok (morning) and back to Bishkek in the afternoon.
Individual evidence
- ↑ welcome.kg ( Kyrgyz ).