The entire Russian railway network is divided into 16 branches. Each of them has a certain subordinate section of tracks, a control system. One of such branches is the Trans-Baikal Railway, which we want to talk about in detail.
general characteristics
The Trans-Baikal Railway is the current Russian railway network that runs through the territory of the Amur Region and the Trans-Baikal Territory. Its total length is more than 3.3 thousand km. The managing institution is in Chita. Since the beginning of 2017, the head of the Trans-Baikal Railway has been A. A. Skachkov.
Until 1991, it was completely located on the territory of the USSR, today it is in the possession of the Russian Federation. The first composition was held here in 1900. In 1975, the railway was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
If you are interested in contacts of the Trans - Baikal Railway, then all the necessary information is in the section of the same name on the official website of Russian Railways. This data on responsible persons, phones, email address for calls.
Facts and Figures
Here are some interesting chronological and statistical facts about the Trans-Baikal Railway:
- Since 2003, it has been a branch of Russian Railways.
- In 2015, the total length of the highway is 3321 km.
- The number of employees is about 46 thousand people (2015).
- The average wage is about 52 thousand rubles (2015).
- Transportation of long-distance passengers - only 2 million 763 thousand people (2015).
- Transportation of passengers on suburban flights - 912 thousand people (2015).
- Cargo transportation - almost 133.6 million tons (2015).
Plot boundaries
It is important to note that in the south the Trans-Baikal Railway, the photo of which is presented in the article, borders on the Chinese Railway (the border station is Zabaikalsk). Here is located not only the railway access station, but also the point of rearrangement of trains that move from the Russian Federation to the PRC and vice versa. The reason is that in China the gauge is different than in Russia - 1435 mm. Through Zabaikalsk trains run to Beijing and Manchuria (Binzhou Railway).
We also mention the section of the Borzya-Solovievsk path. It borders the isolated railway line Chuluunhoroot-Choibalsan (Mongolian Railways). Only freight traffic is organized in this direction today.
Structure
In the photo you will see a diagram of the Trans-Baikal Railway. Previously, it consisted of five branches:
- Mogochinsky.
- Svobodnenskoe.
- Chita.
- Borzinsky.
- Skovorodinsky.
Today they are all disbanded. Instead, the regions of the road were formed - in Chita, Svobodny, Mogoche. In 2017, another region was formed in Borz. There are also 15 branded transport service agencies.
The Trans-Baikal Railway has seven operational locomotive depots in the following locations:
- Cheat.
- Belogorsk.
- Greyhound.
- Hilok.
- Chernyshevsk-Zabaykalsky.
- Amur.
Five carriage enterprises (carriage, car repair depots) in:
- Read.
- Much more.
- Borse.
- Karymsky.
- Belogorsk.
A number of enterprises of track facilities. This is the distance traveled:
- Bureyskaya.
- Belogorskaya.
- Magdagachinskaya.
- Zavitinskaya.
- Mikhailo-Chesnokovskaya.
- Shimanovskaya.
- Zilovskaya.
- Mogochinskaya.
- Erofei-Pavlovich.
- Skovorodinskaya.
- Amazar.
- Shilkinskaya.
- Karymskaya.
- Mogzonskaya.
- Chernyshevsk-Zabaykalskaya.
- Chita.
- Olovyaninsky.
- Hilokskaya.
- Borzinskaya.
- Margutsek.
Enterprises centralization, blocking and alarm. These are the distances:
- Belogorskaya.
- Skovorodinskaya.
- Erofei-Pavlovich.
- Shimanovskaya.
- Zilovskaya.
- Chita.
- Borzinskaya.
- Hilokskaya.
- Mogochinskaya.
- Magdagachinskaya.
- Shilkinskaya.
Power Supply Distance:
- Shilkinskaya.
- Mogochinskaya.
- Hilokskaya.
- Chernyshevsk-Zabaykalskaya.
- Magdagachanskaya.
- Svobodnenskaya.
- Belogorskaya.
- Chita.
- Borzinskaya.
- Erofei-Pavlovich.
- energy installation trains.
Other enterprises:
- Track machine stations, incl. and specialized.
- The distance of engineering structures.
- Directorate for repair and maintenance of railway vehicles.
- Center for monitoring and diagnostics of infrastructure devices.
The Trans-Baikal Directorate of rolling stock, the Trans-Baikal Traction Directorate, and the Trans-Baikal Directorate of Infrastructure also function.
Milestones in History
Let's get acquainted with the main stages of the development of the Trans-Baikal railway:
- The construction of the road took place on the scale of laying the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1895-1905. Both the local population and specialists from the European part of Russia participated in the work. Construction was complicated by the peculiarities of the region: marshland, permafrost, difficult terrain, crossed by rivers and ridges, low temperatures in winter, natural disasters.
- In January 1900, a temporary movement of trains was already begun.
- In 1922 it entered the Siberian District of Railways.
- In 1923, the Trans-Baikal Railway was disconnected as an independent unit. In 1925 it was supplemented by Chita.
- In the period 1936-1943. had the name Molotovskaya.
- In 1959, Amurskaya was attached to the Trans-Baikal railway.
So we examined all the key features of the Trans-Baikal Railway. Being part of the Trans-Siberian Railway, it is still important today in the field of passenger transportation, in the field of freight.