Sabaikalskaya zheleznaya doroga

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Chita train station

The Sabaikalskaja schelesnaja doroga ( Russian Забайка́льская желе́зная доро́га , Transbaikal Railway ) is an 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 Trans-Baikal railroad based in Chita operates railway lines the track gauge of 1520 mm ( broad gauge ) with an operating length of 3336 kilometers in the eastern Siberian region of Trans-Baikal and the Far Eastern Amur Oblast .

To the west are the routes of the East Siberian Railway , to the east that of the Far East Railway . In Sabaikalsk , the Transbaikal Railway operates a railway border crossing to Manjur (Manzhouli, formerly also in Russian Mantschurija) in the People's Republic of China , and in Solovyovsk another to Mongolia (isolated line of the Mongolian State Railway to Choibalsan ).

In 2008, 106.9 million tons of goods, 5.4 million long-distance passengers and 5.8 million suburban traffic were carried. In the same year, the railway had 49,348 employees. The head of the branch is Sergei Ivanov.

The Transbaikal Railway is divided into three subdivisions ( otdelenija ), the administrations of which are located in Chita, Mogotscha and Svobodny .

history

A railway administration called the Transbaikal Railway was first established in 1901 with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway . At that time it comprised the entire route east of Lake Baikal , including the section of today's East Siberian Railway in Buryatia from Myssovaya . After various outsourcing and reintegration of separate railway administrations, such as the Amur and the Tschitaeisenbahn and the temporary renaming of the Molotov Railway (after the Soviet Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov ) between 1936 and 1943, the Transbaikal Railway got its current form in July 1959, as the western, longer part of the Amur Railway was assigned to her.

The Electrification (25 kV 50  Hz AC ) began in the Trans-Baikal railroad relatively late, with the commissioning of the section Petrovsky Zavod  - Karymskaja between 1972 and 1974. Therefore, the Trans-Baikal section was the last on Transsiberian, on which even steam locomotives in regular passenger traffic were used. The work did not continue until the mid-1980s and was completed in 1994 with the closing of the last 129 km gap between Silowo and Ksenjewskaja .

stretch

The main routes of the Transbaikal Railway are:

  • Trans-Siberian Railway: section from Petrovsk-Sabaikalsky ( Petrovsky Zavod station ), route km 5784 (inclusive) to Archara , km 8080 (exclusive); two-pronged; electrified with alternating current 25 kV 50 Hz direct current 3000 V. With this, the Transbaikal Railway operates the longest Transsib single section of all RŽD branches with almost 2300 km.
  • Karymskaja - Sabaikalsk , on to the People's Republic of China; 360 km, single-track with double-track sections, electrification to Borsja under construction, further planned. At the beginning of the 20th century, this line formed the western approach to the Chinese Eastern Railway and was part of the main line of the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok until the Amur Railway to Khabarovsk opened in 1916 .
  • various branch lines, including (all single-track, not electrified):

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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

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