Rail transport in Mongolia
The rail traffic in Mongolia has a great importance for the country is, but because of the small population of Mongolia highly qualified. Thus, the rail transport in Mongolia today of two of independent networks , the largest is the Trans-Mongolian Railway .
history
The 43-kilometer narrow-gauge line from Ulaanbaatar to Nalaich was opened on July 11, 1938 as the first railway line in Mongolia . It was later in the net of the Trans-Mongolian Railway included plus 1,958 umgespurt .
The Trans-Mongolian Railway was built as a single-track , non- electrified full-gauge railway until 1961. Coming from Ulan-Ude in 1940 she reached the Russian-Mongolian border, in 1950 the capital Ulaanbaatar and in 1955 the Mongolian-Chinese border. According to the political constellation in the Mongolian People's Republic of that time , the interests of the Soviet Union were decisive. For the railway therefore, the appropriate local standards have been adopted, such as the 1524 mm broad gauge and the standards for railway vehicles .
In 1958, the line from Solovyovsk to Bajantümen near Choibalsan went into operation in eastern Mongolia with a length of 238 km. In Borsja it was connected to the Trans-Siberian Railway . For strategic military reasons, the network around Tschoibalsan was supplemented in 1941 by two narrow-gauge railways to Tamdsag Bulag and Dsun Bulag , which were closed in 1956 and 1962/63.
present
The Mongolyn Tömör DSAM (Mongolian Railway, MTZ) operates rail transportation in Mongolia.
stretch
Mongolia now has a rail network of around 1815 km in length. All routes in Mongolia are not electrified and are only used with diesel locomotives . The largest of these networks is the Trans-Mongolian Railway with its branch lines . It crosses the country in a north-south direction and connects the rail networks of Russia and China .
Another network is the railway line from Tschoibalsan to the Russian-Mongolian border and on to the Trans-Siberian Railway. This route has only freight traffic . It has no connection to the Trans-Mongolian Railway within Mongolia.
traffic
After the dissolution of the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (COMECON) in 1991, the volume of goods traffic on the Mongolian railways fell by about half, but by 2005 had almost reached the previous levels. In 2007 the Mongolian railroad carried 93% of all goods and 43% of travelers in Mongolia. The relatively slow passenger traffic on the railroad is increasingly facing competition from car traffic on better and better roads.
The shorter of the two continuous train connections between Moscow and Beijing runs once a week via the Trans-Mongolian Railway . In domestic traffic, trains run between Ulaanbaatar, Darchan , Suchbaatar , Erdenet , Dsamyn-Üüd , Tschoir and Sainschand .
vehicles
As locomotives coming locomotives of the series 2M62 and 2ТЭ10Л used, which in Ukrainian Luhansk were built, as well as the series ТЭМ2 , 2ТЭ 116 . From the United States were DASH-7 locomotives imported. The cars are largely the same as those used in Russia .
Planning
A total of 5600 km are to be built over three phases:
- The first phase involves a new line from Tschoibalsan via Ulaanbaatar (with transition to the Trans-Mongolian Railway) to Dalandsadgad over a length of around 1100 km. The Mongolian Railway was awarded the contract for the planning on November 3, 2010 by the government. The feasibility study for this was awarded to McKinsey , Liberty Partners LLC , Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and BNP Paribas .
- Furthermore, on November 3, 2012, the MTZ was commissioned by the government to start planning a railway connection between Uchaa Chudag and the Mongolian-Chinese border town of Gaschuun Suchait . From there, the line will continue to the Linhe – Ceke line . The railway is supposed to transport coal to China over the 235-kilometer freight train route with the project name South Gobi Desert Rail . The single-track railway line, designed for an axle load of 25 tonnes and for 1,800-meter-long freight trains, was designed by the Deutsche Bahn subsidiary DB International .
- Further plans envisage a connection of the aforementioned route with the Trans-Mongolian Railway between Ojuu Tolgoi and Bujant-Uchaa .
Web links
- Official website of the Mongolian Railway MTZ (English, Mongolian, Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Freight and passenger turnover in tons * km and passenger * km, respectively. 2007 Statistical Yearbook of Mongolia, p. 252.
- ↑ MTZ homepage .
- ↑ MTZ homepage .
- ↑ DB is awarded the contract for a railway project in Mongolia. Deutsche Bahn AG, March 26, 2009, accessed on November 22, 2009 .
- ↑ Mongolia: Hochtief subsidiary builds coal railway. (No longer available online.) Eurailpress.de, November 20, 2009, archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; Retrieved November 22, 2009 . 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.
- ↑ Project Profile Ukhaa Khudag - Gashuun Sukhait, South Gobi Desert Rail, Mongolia. (pdf; 272 kB) (No longer available online.) Deutsche Bahn AG, formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 22, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
