Oʻzbekiston Temir Yoʻllari
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| Oʻzbekiston Temir Yoʻllari (OTY) | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Joint stock company (aksiyadorlik) |
| founding | February 7, 1994 |
| Seat |
Tashkent , Uzbekistan
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| management | Achilbay Shumaniyazovich Ramatov (Chairman of the Board of Directors) |
| Number of employees | 93,000 (2019) |
| Branch | Transport / logistics |
| Website | www.uzrailway.uz |
The Oʻzbekiston Temir Yoʻllari (German: Uzbekische Eisenbahnen ) (UTY / OTY) is the state railway of Uzbekistan .
history
After independence from Uzbekistan in 1991, the railway network was taken over from the stock of the Soviet railways and therefore essentially still has its parameters today, in particular the track width of 1520 mm. OTY was founded on November 7, 1994. The independence of Uzbekistan also meant that the borders with neighboring republics now became state borders. During the construction of the railroad in the Russian and Soviet times, no attention was paid to this. The new borders now cut railway lines .
That is why the rail network has been extended by around 2500 kilometers since independence and a further 1170 km of route has been renovated. The newly built routes now also avoided transit journeys through neighboring countries. The most important new lines are:
- Navoiy - Uchkuduk - Nukus (342 km)
- Tashguzar - Baysun - Kumkurgan (223 km)
- Angren – Pap (124 km)
- Bukhara - Misken
- Urgench - Khiva
- Hairaton-Mazar-i-Sharif
In addition, the railway lines
expanded for high-speed traffic.
The electrification was promoted after independence. These include the routes around Tashkent, i.e. essentially from the capital to the southwest and neighboring Kazakhstan, as well as:
- Samarkand– Qarshi (140 km), built from 2012, completed in August 2015
- Pap– Kokand - Margilan - Andijan (186 km), completed in June 2016
- Angren – Pap (124 km, new line, electrified from the start), completed in June 2016
- Qarshi– Termez (325 km), completed in January 2018
- Samarkand – Bukhara (291 km), completed in August 2016
The enterprise
organization
On February 1, 2019, a new Ministry of Transport was created in Uzbekistan, to which the railways are also subordinate. Minister became the first deputy prime minister, Ramatov Achilbai Zhumaniyazovich , who was head of OTY for several years.
OTY is organized as a stock corporation with a number of subcontractors. These include production facilities for cars and freight cars, steel processing companies that manufacture accessories for railway vehicles and small iron parts for the superstructure in order to reduce import requirements, as well as repair workshops for vehicles. Components for road vehicles and aircraft are also manufactured.
The headquarters of OTY are in Tashkent . In the period from 2016 to 2018, $ US 2 billion was invested in OTY.
The Tashkent Metro was incorporated into the OTY in 2016. Their route network is 38.25 km long, includes three lines, 29 stations and is currently being expanded considerably.
OTY is a member of OSJD (since 1994) and UIC . There is a cooperation agreement with Deutsche Bahn AG
staff
OTY has 93,000 employees, almost 50,000 of whom work in the railway company itself, the rest in affiliated companies.
The staff is trained in the Institute of Railway Transport and Engineering in Tashkent and in three vocational schools in Tashkent, Samarkand and Kokand .
The institute in Tashkent offers four disciplines: transport organization and logistics, electromechanics, construction and economics. It leads 1,200 graduates to a Bachelor's degree and 100 to a Master's degree every year . In addition, around 2000 Deutsche Bahn employees are trained here every year.
The railway vocational school in Tashkent trains more than 300 locomotive drivers every year .
Around 200 academics from the UTY are currently (2019) in training institutions in the Russian Federation .
Infrastructure
parameter
Most of the route network with a gauge of 1520 mm is single-track. It is 7,420 km long, 2,890 km of which are electrified with an alternating voltage of 25,000 V (50 Hz) (as of 2019). Most of the electrification (around 2,500 km) took place after independence, 1158 km between 2010 and 2018. The electrification of the routes will continue. Work is currently (2019) on the electrification of the Pap – Namangan – Andijan line and should be completed by the end of 2021.
Individual routes
- The main route of the OTY is the Tashkent – Samarkand | Bukhara / Qarshi connection. Between Tashkent and Bukhara, it was designed for speeds of up to 250 km / h. Work is underway to expand the line to Urganch accordingly . It should be completed by the end of 2021.
- The west of the country is connected via the Bukhara – Nukus / Urgensch route.
- On June 22, 2016, the Angren – Pop line with the 19.2 km long Kamchiq tunnel was opened. The railway in the Ferghana Valley , until then an island operation , was connected to the route network of the rest of the country.
- The Uzbek Railways network is connected to neighboring countries. The most important border crossings are:
- Keles north of Tashkent on the border with Kazakhstan ,
- Bekobod on the border with Tajikistan and
- Galaba on the border with Afghanistan .
Train stations
16 passenger train stations have been rebuilt since independence and 14 have been fundamentally renovated, including the south station in Tashkent.
Projects
The Andijan - Xonobod (Khanabad) route is currently (2019) being renewed :
vehicles
OTY has 500 locomotives and multiple units , around 21,500 freight cars and 778 passenger cars .
The diesel locomotives are maintained in nine depots . The vehicle component comprises one-piece locomotives ТЭП70 , double locomotives of the series 2ТЭ10M , 2ТЭ10Л and 2ТЭ10В , three-piece 3ТЭ10M and UzTЭ16M3 and shunting the series ЧМЭ3 and ТЭМ -Baureihen.
In terms of electric locomotives, there are eleven Co'Co ' locomotives of the O'ZEL series from CNR Dalian built in China in 2013 , which are similar to the MTAB IORE locomotive but have two driver's cabs.
As far as multiple units are concerned, four articulated trains built by Talgo and similar to the RENFE 130 series are OTY's premium range of passenger services.
traffic
passenger traffic
In the years 2016 to 2018, more than 65 million passengers traveled by train. A transport performance of 12.5 billion passenger kilometers was achieved.
Express traffic
The Registon has been operating between Tashkent and Samarkand since 2003, with a journey time of three hours and 40 minutes.
The Sharq has been running between Tashkent and Kogon (near Bukhara ) since 2005 with a journey time of seven hours.
In July 2011, the first 250 km / h Talgo was delivered, which cuts the travel time between Tashkent and Samarkand to two hours. Two more were added in the procurement period from 2016 to 2018 so that four sets are available. Two more have been ordered. The trains run under the name "Afrosiyob" and also serve Jizzax , Bukhara, Qarshi, Shahrisabz and Navoiy . The trains run three classes (VIP, Business and Economy). As planned , they run at a top speed of 230 km / h. You need 2:08 hours for the Tashkent – Samarkand route, 3:20 hours for the Tashkent – Bukhara route and 4:25 hours for the Tashkent – Shahrisabz route
Long-distance trains
The train 49/50 runs daily as a daily border connection Samarkand – Tashkent – Samarkand. It is of western standard.
In the tourist sector, the Russian luxury train "Golden Eagle" runs between Moscow and Dostyk (Druszba) also through Uzbekistan. OTY operates its own luxury train for tourists under the name “Afsona” and runs a special train through the country twice a year for a German travel agency.
Freight transport
The share of rail in freight transport in Uzbekistan is 53%. From 2016 to 2018, 204 million t of goods were transported in domestic traffic and 69 billion t / km were achieved . In cross-border traffic, 88 million t of goods were transported and 26.3 billion t / km were performed.
A large logistics center was opened in Andijan, in which goods coming from China - especially containers - are reloaded onto the railroad.
Worth knowing
The Lokomotiv Tashkent football club , currently the Uzbek football champions, is largely supported by the railway's own company sport and sponsored by OTY.
literature
- NN: Republic of Uzbekistan: New Way in the Developement and Progress . In: OSJD Bulletin 3/2019, pp. 1–15.
Web links
- O'zbekiston temir yo'llari , official website of the railway company in English with route map
Individual evidence
- ↑ Правление
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- ↑ Private page about the Uzbek railways (English)
- ^ Official website of the Uzbek Railway
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- ↑ UTY: Electrification works completed on [!] The railway line Karshi – Termez . In: OSJD Bulletin 2018/1, p. 22.
- ^ NN: Republic , p. 7.
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- ^ High-speed electro-train "Afrosiyob" arrived in Tashkent. July 25, 2011, accessed July 27, 2011 .
- ^ NN: Republic , p. 6.
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- ^ NN: Republic , p. 13.
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- ^ So: NN: Republic , p. 3; According to the same source, p. 10, the figure is said to be 60% in national and almost 80% in cross-border traffic.
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