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Uzbek Railways

Uzbekistan Railways is the national railway company of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It owns and manages all infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services in the country, and has a near-monopoly on long-distance train travel in Uzbekistan. It is a vertically integrated state-owned stock company, formed in 1994 to operate railways within Uzbekistan. As of March 2017, the total length of its main railway network is 4,669 km (2,446 km of which is electrified).[2]

Infrastructure

4714 km rail network carries about 40% of total freight volume in the country, and about 4% of the total land passenger volume. Around 2,350 km of the network is currently electrified, as of 2019.[3]

Branches

Uzbekistan Railways has the following 6 regional railway junctions :[4]

High-speed lines

The Tashkent–Bukhara high-speed rail line started operation in September 2011 after being upgraded.[5]

Railway links with adjacent countries

Uzbek Railways has direct passenger train links to Moscow, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Saratov, Penza and Saint Petersburg (via Kazakhstan). From Almaty connecting trains are provided to Urumchi in China. Also Tajik trains of Dushanbe-Moscow (No: 319), Moscow-Dushanbe (No: 320), Khujand-Saratov (No: 335), Khujand-Atyrau (No: 335), Saratov-Khujand (No: 336), Khujand-Moscow (No: 359), Moscow-Khujand (No: 360), Kanibadam-Bokhtar (No: 389), Bokhtar-Kanibadam (No: 389) and Atyrau-Khujand (No: 692) passes through Uzbekistan.

The Karshi-Termez line, which extends across the border into Afghanistan, is being electrified.[6] In March 2018, Uzbek Railways began a new service, connecting Tashkent with Balykchy.[7] The China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway, which started construction in 2025, aims to build 523 km of new track (50 km of which is in Uzbekistan) connecting Kashgar, China via Kyrgyzstan to Andijan.

  • Afghanistan – yes, linked, same gauge.
  • Kazakhstan – yes, linked with Kazakhstan Temir Joly, same gauge.
  • Kyrgyzstan – yes, linked with Kyrgyz Railways, same gauge.
  • Tajikistan – yes, linked with Tajik Railways, same gauge.
  • Turkmenistan – yes, linked with Demirýollary, same gauge.

Rolling stock

Passenger trains

Freight

  • 3ES5K locomotives (~7, Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant, 2018–2020)

See also

  • Transport in Uzbekistan

External links

References

  1. Uzbekistan Railways company website retrieved 2014-08-19^
  2. Asian Development Bank website^
  3. ADB loan for Uzbekistan Railways locomotive order Railway Gazette International^
  4. Схема железных дорог Республики Узбекистан railway.uz, retrieved 2025-10-11^
  5. High-speed Afrosiyob train starts to run between Tashkent and Samarkand UzDaily.uz^
  6. Maksim Yeniseyev. Uzbekistan electrifies railway towards Afghan border central.asia-news.com, Caravanserai, retrieved 29 August 2017^
  7. Uzbekistan Opens New Railway Routes to Kyrgyzstan, Russia EurasiaNet, March 22, 2018^
  8. Uzbekistan Railways to launch electric trains on the Tashkent-Khodjikent route Kun.uz, retrieved 2024-07-08^
  9. Ozbekiston Temir Yollari announced a tender for the delivery of 34 electric trains ROLLINGSTOCK, 2022-10-14, retrieved 2024-07-08^
  10. Talgo 250 — List of the vehicles railgallery.ru, retrieved 2025-07-29^
  11. RegioPanter EMUs for Uzbekistan Railvolution, retrieved 2024-07-08^