Sapadno-Sibirskaya seleznaja doroga

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Novosibirsk Central Railway Station

The Sapadno-Sibirskaja schelesnaja doroga ( Russian За́падно-Сиби́рская желе́зная доро́га , "West Siberian Railway") is an operationally independent branch of the Russian Railways (RŽD). It emerged from the regional directorate of the same name of the RŽD and the former Soviet Railways (SŽD) and the Ministry of Transport (MPS).

Operational data and organization

The West-Siberian Railway, based in Novosibirsk operates railway lines the track gauge of 1520 mm ( broad gauge ) with an operating length of 9000 kilometers in the West Siberian oblasts Omsk , Novosibirsk , Kemerovo and Tomsk and the Altai Territory . The West Siberian Railway also includes an approximately 120 km long transit section through northeast Kazakhstan between the Tscherlak and Karassuk stations .

The Sverdlovsk Railway connects to the west and the Krasnoyarsk Railway to the east . Rail border crossings to Kazakhstan are operated at Issilkul (towards Petropawl ), Kulunda (towards Pavlodar  - Nur-Sultan (until 2019 Astana) ) and Lokot (towards Semei  - Almaty ). Another one on the route from Irtyshskoje in the direction of Kökschetau has been out of service since the 1990s.

In 2008, 259.6 million tons of goods, 3.2 million long-distance passengers and 78.3 million suburban traffic were carried. In the same year the railway had 70,101 employees. The head of the branch is Alexander Zelko.

The West Siberian Railway is divided into four subdivisions ( otdelenija ), whose administrations are located in Barnaul , Kemerovo , Novosibirsk and Omsk .

history

A "West Siberian Railway" was first established in 1896 in connection with the establishment of the West Siberian section of the Trans-Siberian Railway . As early as January 1, 1900, it merged with the Central Siberian Railway to form the Siberian Railway , from which the Omsk and Tomsk Railway emerged in 1912 . After various reorganizations, the former Tomsk Railway lines, which meanwhile belonged to the Krasnoyarsk Railway, were finally reunited with those of the Omsk Railway in 1961, so that the West Siberian Railway was created in its current form. From 1979 to 1996 the lines in the Kuznetsk Basin (Kussbass) and around Tomsk were spun off as an independent Kemerovo Railway .

The electrification began in the area of today's West-Siberian Railway (at that time under the name Kaganovich Railway , after Lazar Kaganovich , who also temporarily Soviet railway minister was) in 1942 with the electrification of the node Novosibirsk with 3000  V DC . In 1951 the electrification of long-distance routes began; for the Transsib main line in the area of ​​the railway administration it was completed in 1959. Later, some lines were also electrified with 25 kV 50  Hz alternating current , so that the West Siberian Railway is now one of the RŽD branches that operate lines with different power systems. System change stations are Irtyshskaya (south of Omsk), Tscherepanowo , Artyschta (south of Leninsk-Kuznetsky ) and Meschduretschensk (at the same time the transition to the Krasnoyarsk Railway).

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Station building, platform side

The main routes of the West Siberian Railway are:

  • Trans-Siberian Railway: section from Nasywajewskaja (route kilometers 2562, inclusive) to Mariinsk (km 3713, exclusive) as well as the section of the original and today's southern route of the Trans-Siberia from the Kazakh border at Issilkul to Omsk (a good 150 km); all double-track, electrified 3000 V =
  • Former Turkestan-Siberian Railway : section from Novosibirsk via Barnaul to the Kazakh border at Lokot west of Rubzowsk ; 534 km; to Barnaul double track, further single track with double track sections; up to Tscherepanowo electrified with 3000 V =, up to Barnaul with 25 kV 50 Hz ~, further not electrified
  • "Central Siberian Railway": from Omsk via Karassuk to Srednesibirskaya north of Barnaul; to Irtyshkoye single-track with double-track sections, electrified with 3000 V =, further two-track, electrified with 25 kV 50 Hz ~
  • " South Siberian Railway ": section from the Kazakh border near Kulunda via Barnaul to Artyschta (a good 600 km; to Barnaul single-track, non-electrified, further double-track, electrified with 25 kV 50 Hz ~) and from Novokuznetsk to Meshduretschensk (70 km, double-track, electrified with 3000 V =)
  • Novosibirsk / Ob  - Novokusnezk - Tashagol and Jurga  - Projektnaja (near Leninsk-Kuznetsky ): together about 800 km; Novosibirsk - Novokuznetsk double-track, the rest single-track; everything electrified with 3000 V =; these stretches open up the Kuznetsk Basin
  • a number of branch and connecting lines, all single-track and mostly not electrified, including:
    • Tatarskaya  - Karassuk - Kulunda - Malinovoye Osero (485 km); Continuation to Lokot was practically completed in the 1980s, but was not put into regular operation
    • Altayskaya  - Biysk (146 km)
    • Taiga  - Tomsk - Assino  - Bely Jar (363 km; almost 100 km to Tomsk electrified with 3000 V =)

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literature

  • G. Afonina: Kratkie svedenija o razvitii otečestvennych železnych dorog s 1838 po 1990 g. MPS, Moscow 1995 ( Brief information on the development of the national railways from 1838 to 1990 ; Russian).
  • Istorija železnodorožnogo transporta Rossii. Tom 1 (1836-1917 gg.) . PGUPS, Saint Petersburg 1994, ISBN 5-85952-005-0 ( History of Russian Railways. Volume 1 (1836–1917) ; Russian).
  • Istorija železnodorožnogo transporta Rossii I Sovetskogo Sojuza. Tom 2 (1917-1945 gg.) . PGUPS, Saint Petersburg 1997, ISBN 5-85952-005-0 ( History of rail traffic in Russia and the Soviet Union. Volume 2 (1917–1945) ; Russian).
  • Železnodorožnyj transport. Ėncyklopedija . Bolʹšaja Rossijskaja Ėncyklopedija, Moscow 1995, ISBN 5-85270-115-7 ( Railway Transport : Encyclopedia ; Russian).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Data on the official website of the Russian Railways ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / branch.rzd.ru
  2. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes of March 17, 1900. Volume 4, No. 13. Announcement No. 108, p. 91.