Far Eastern Railway
The Dalnewostotschnaja schelesnaja doroga (Russian Дальневосточная железная дорога, "Far Eastern " or " Far East Railway ") is a railway operationally independent subsidiary of Russian Railways ( RZD). They emerged from the same Regional Directorate of RŽD and the former Soviet Railways ( SZD ) and the traffic routes Ministry (MPS ).
Operating data and organization
The Far Eastern Railway with headquarters in Khabarovsk operates railways in the 1520 mm ( Russian broad gauge ) with an operating length of 5991 kilometers, mainly in the Far Eastern Federal District ( Primorye, Khabarovsk region, Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Amur Oblast, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia ), Sakhalin ).
To the west close to the routes of the Trans-Baikal and the East Siberian Railway. In Pogranitschny ( station Grodekowo ) the Far Eastern Railway operates a railway border crossing to Suifenhe, People's Republic of China, at Khasan another after Tumangan, North Korea.
2008 51.7 million tons of cargo, 5,0 million passengers in long distance and 20 million were transported in the suburbs. In the same year the railway had 50,331 employees. Head of the office is Mikhail Saitschenko.
The Far Eastern Railways is divided into five sub-divisions ( otdelenija ) divided: Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Komsomolsk, Sakhalin and Tynda.
In the Far East Railroad is also the abandoned lines from Selichino that should be performed in the 1950s by a tunnel to the island of Sakhalin. In recent years, attempts to resume the routes and tunneling have been made. It was also planned to extend from 2009, the route of Birobidzhan after Leninsk in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast on a new Amur bridge to Tongjiang in the People's Republic of China to establish a further connection to the local rail network.
History
The first route in the area of today's Far Eastern Railway ran from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok, was opened in 1891-1897 and was initially divided between North Ussuri Railway and South Ussuri Railway. Since the completion of the Amur Railway in 1916, this connection is part of the main route of the Trans -Siberian Railway. The administrations were later united to the Ussuri Railway, from the regional administration in 1936 called for a new spin-off of an Amur railway, the Far East Railway was built.
In result, there were other organizational changes. So an independent Primorje- Railway with headquarters in Voroshilov was 1939-1953 (now Ussurijsk ) spun off, and from 1963 to 1992 were the routes of the Sakhalin Railway to the Far East Railroad. Their current magnitude is the Far Eastern Railway since the end of 1996, when she was assigned to the eastern part of the previously separate Baikal - Amur Mainline (BAM ). 1992 Sachalinskaja schelesnaja doroga was spun off as an independent railway company.
Electrification began in the Far East Railway with the commissioning of the section Vladivostok - Ussurijsk with 25 kV 50 Hz AC 1962 /63. In the Far East Railway electrification of the Trans-Siberian Railway in 2002, with commissioning of the 164 km long section of Guberowo ( at Dalnerechensk ) to Swijagino ( at Spassk- Dalni ) was completed.
2010 Sachalinskaja schelesnaja doroga was reintegrated into Dalnewostotschnaja schelesnaja doroga. Length of the route in 2010 amounted to 5990.6 kilometers, the number of employees 44 367. It 4.168 million people in long-distance transport and 10.992 million people were transported in transport as well as 43.34 million tons of goods.
Stretch
The main routes of the Far Eastern Railway are:
- Trans-Siberian Railway ( section of Archara, kilometer 8080 (including, transition to the Trans -Baikal railroad ) to the end point Vladivostok, km 9289; electrified with AC 25 kV 50 Hz, double track, the Amur is crossed in Khabarovsk from a single-track bridge and by a well- seven km long single-track tunnel passes under )
- Baikal - Amur Mainline (BAM; portion of Chani, route kilometers in 1864 (including, transition to the East-Siberian railway) to Komsomolsk-on- Amur, km 3819, not electrified; single track ) and subsequent route to Wanino and Sovetskaya Gavan ( 468 km, not electrified; single track )
- Cross-connections between Transsib and BAM: Amur - Yakutian Magistrale (formerly also called "Little BAM "; Bamowskaja ( exclusive, transition to the Trans -Baikal railroad ) - Tynda - Nerjungri; 416 km, not electrified, single track, in Nerjungri Following operated by the Yakut railways section after Tommot and further under construction to Yakutsk )
- Iswestkowaja - Urgal - Tschegdomyn ( 369 km, not electrified; single track )
- Khabarovsk - Komsomolsk (km, not electrified; single track )