Belarusian Railway (BCh) ( (БЧ) / Biełaruskaja čyhunka, ) is Belarus' fully state-owned vertically integrated railway company, both managing infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services and has a near-monopoly on train travel in Belarus.
Overview
The company, formed in 1992 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, is one of the inheritors of the Soviet Railways. It administers 5,512 km of railway with. The railway's most important station is Minsk Terminal, the central station of the capital.
BCh reports to the ministry of transport and as of 2010 was composed of 84 organizations; 46 enterprises, 38 institutions, and 7 factories/plants.[2] The rail network is divided into 6 departments: named after the regions around Minsk, Baranovichi, Brest, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk.[3]
Infrastructure
Rolling stock
- Electric locomotives
- ChS4T; Co'Co' electric locomotive
- VL80, BCG-1; twin-unit (Bo'Bo')-(Bo'Bo') locomotives
- Diesel locomotives
- M62, TE10, 2TE116, TEP60, TEP70, ChME3; Co'Co' diesel electric locomotives
- TGK2; two-axle diesel shunter
- Passenger multiple units
- DR1; diesel multiple unit
- ER9, Stadler FLIRT (EPg, EPr, EPm); electric multiple units
- DP1, DP3, DP6 Pesa; diesel multiple unit for Minsk-Vilnius services.[4]
Stations
International sanctions
Belarusian Railway was included in the sanctions lists of Canada in November 2022 and Ukraine in January 2023, respectively.[5] Canada also blacklisted Vladimir Morozov, the head of Belarusian Railway, as later did the European Union, Switzerland, Ukraine, Australia[6] and New Zealand.[7]
Gallery
See also
- Minsk Railway station
- Rail transport in Belarus
External links
- , official website
References
- Яўген ВАЛОШЫН. Як папулярызуюць родную мову на Беларускай чыгунцы? news.tut.by, 29 January 2011, retrieved 30 January 2012^
- http://www.rw.by/index.php/.1.0.0..0.0.0.html www.rw.by, Belarusian Railway^
- http://www.rw.by/index.php/.16.0.0..0.0.0.html www.rw.by, Belarusian Railway^
- Schedule and search for tickets^
- Belarusian Railway National Agency for Prevention of Corruption, retrieved 2023-04-14^
- MOROZOV Vladimir Mikhailovich National Agency on Corruption Prevention, retrieved 2023-07-11^
- Russia Sanctions Amendment Regulations (No 4) 2024 New Zealand Legislation^