Uzbekistan Railway Assessment
The Uzbek Railways (Uzbek: Oʻzbekiston Temir Yoʻllari) are the national rail carrier of Uzbekistan. The company owns and operates all railways within the country. It is a state-owned stock company, formed in 1994 to operate railways within the former Uzbek SSR. The total length of its main railway network is 3,645 km. It employs 54,700 people. Uzbekistan railways linking Termez, Samarkand, Bukhara, the Fergana Valley and Nukus. There are two train stations in Tashkent - North and South.The Trans-Caspian Railway traverses the country from Turkmenabad in Turkmenistan via Kagan (nearBukhara),Samarkand and Jizzakh, where the railway branches off to serve the capital Tashkent.
The following international trains operate to/from Uzbekistan:
train 5/6 Tashkent - Moskva, 4 times weekly
train 381/382: Tashkent - Ufa, 3 times weekly
train 365/366: Tashkent - Celjabinsk, once weekly
train 395/396: Tashkent - Kharkov, once weekly
train 321/322: Nukus - Samarkand - Tashkent - Almaty, once
weekly
train 369/370: Tashkent - Almaty - Barnaul - Novosibirsk, every 4
days
train 331/332: Tashkent - Samarkand - Nukus - Saratov, once
weekly
train 333/334: Tashkent - Samarkand - Urgench - Nukus - Saratov,
once weekly
train 383/384: Tashkent - Samarkand - Nukus - St. Peterburg, once
weekly
Kungrad - Bejneu, daily
For information on Uzbekistan Railway Network additional informaiton, please see the following documents:
Uzbekistan New Railway line - Hayraton to Mazar-e-sharif
Uzbekistan New Railway Lines map
Note: The information provided in the attached documents, which has been taken from the old DLCA, does not match the structure of the new LCA and is therefore provided separately.
Travel Time Matrix
Railway Companies and Consortia
For information on Uzbekistan Railway Network Company contact details, please see the following link:
4.3 Uzbekistan Railway Company Contact List
Uzbekistan Railways: State Joint Stock Railway Company "Uzbekistan Railways" is proud to offer the following services:
Freight forwarding and cargo delivery to all international
transport corridors;
Transportation of passengers and cargo (luggage);
Travel and transportation service on the Great Silk Road in the
cities of Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva and Tashkent; http://www.uzrailpass.uz/
Search and tracking of wagons;
All repairs of passenger cars using the latest equipment;
All repairs to diesel and electric locomotives;
Manufacturing and service life of freight cars.
Capacity Table
There are three types of trains:
- fast trains (skory poyezd) or express trains (train nos 1 to 149)
- slower trains (skorostnoi poyezd) (train nos 151 to 169), and
- passenger trains (passazhirski poyezd) (train nos 171 to 699).
There are four types of sleepers:
- soft wagon (miagki vagon) - 2 berth compartments
- kupeiny vagon - 4 berth compartments
- platskartny vagon - benches in a large car
- obshi vagon - third class-crowded
Key Route Information
The main line Tashkent - Samarkand - Bukhara is served by two
express trains named "Registon" and "Sharq": The "Registon" brings
you from Tashkent in less than 4 hours to Samarkand and the "Sharq"
makes the 600-km-journey Tashkent - Bukhara (with intermediate stop
in Samarkand) in about 7,5 hours. A daily overnight train from
Tashkent to Bukhara offers the possibility to travel during the
night and win one day. Comfortable sleeping cars allow a good
sleep.
Recently a new train "Afrosiob" started operating on Tashkent -
Samarkand line. This Talgo-250-type train makes a respective
distance in 2.5 hours time. Unlike to ordinary local trains, there
are 3 classes in "Afrosiob": economy class - 36 persons per
carriage room, in business and VIP. Economy class costs 46 thousand
soums (roughtly $25 at official rate), business class - 65 thousand
soums and VIP - 80 thousand soums. You may also expect some free
drinks and snacks. It is planned to extend the "Afrosiob" line to
Bukhara and, subsequently, to Khiva by 2014-2015. Overnight
trains also run from Tashkent and Samarkand to Urgench (3 times
weekly) and to Nukus - Kungrad (2 times weekly), so it's also
possible to travel to Khiva (30 kilometers from Urgench, taxi/bus
available) or to the Aral lake (Moynaq, 70 km from Kungrad) by
train.