Rail transport in Mongolia

Rail transport in Mongolia has a high importance for the country, but will greatly tempered by the small population of Mongolia. Thus, the rail transport in Mongolia today consists of two mutually independent networks, the largest of which is the Trans-Mongolian Railway.

History

The first railway line in Mongolia, 43 km long narrow gauge route from Ulaanbaatar to Nalaich was opened on 11 July 1938. It was later included in the network of the Trans-Mongolian Railway and to umgespurt 1958.

As a single-track, non-electrified full- gauge train the Trans-Mongolian Railway was built until 1961. In 1940, she reached from Ulan Ude, take the Russian -Mongolian border, 1950, the capital Ulaanbaatar, and in 1955 the Mongolian- Chinese border. According to the then political constellation, the interests of the Soviet Union were decisive. Therefore, the appropriate local standards have been adopted for the train, such as the 1524 mm wide track and standards for railway vehicles.

1958 went to the east of Mongolia, the route of Solowjowsk after Bajantümen in Choibalsan with a length of 238 km in operation. In Borsja it was connected to the Trans-Siberian Railway. The power to Choibalsan was supplemented from strategic military reasons in 1941 by two narrow gauge railways after Tamdsag Bulag and DSUN Bulag, but they were / 63 shut down in 1956 and 1962.

Presence

The Mongolyn Tömör DSAM ( Mongolian Eisanbahn, MTZ ), operates the railways in Mongolia.

Stretch

Mongolia now has rail network of about 1815 km in length. All routes in Mongolia are not electrified and will only be traveled by diesel locomotives. The largest of these networks is the Trans-Mongolian Railway with the outgoing of her stitch lines. It crosses the country from north to south direction and connects the rail networks of Russia and China.

Another network is the railway line from Choibalsan to the Russian- Mongolian border and on to the Trans -Siberian Railway. This route has only freight. She has no connection to the Trans-Mongolian railway within Mongolia.

Traffic

After the dissolution of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA ) in 1991, the volume of freight traffic of the Mongolian railway fell by about half, but had returned to almost the former amounts to 2005. The Mongolian Railway transported in 2007 93 % of all goods and 43 % of travelers in Mongolia. The relatively slow passenger railway arises, however, facing increasing competition from car traffic on getting better maintained roads.

About the Trans-Mongolian Railway runs once a week, the shorter of the two through trains between Moscow to Beijing. In domestic traffic trains run between Ulaanbaatar, Darkhan, Sukhbaatar, Erdenet, Dsamyn - Üüd, Tschoir and Sainschand.

Rolling stock

As locomotives are locomotives of the series 2M62 and 2ТЭ10Л used, which were built in Ukraine Luhansk, and the TЭM2 series, 2ТЭ 116 From the U.S. DASH -7 locomotives were imported. The cars are similar to those used in Russia.

Planning

In total, spread over three phases 5600 km to be built:

• In the first phase it is about a new line of Choibalsan via Ulaanbaatar ( with transition to the Trans-Mongolian Railway ) to Dalandsadgad over a length of about 1100 km. The contract for the design was issued on 3 November 2010 by the Government of the Mongolian Railway. The feasibility study for this was awarded to McKinsey, Liberty Partners LLC, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and BNP Paribas.
• Further, the MTZ on November 3, 2012, by the Government commissioned the planning for a rail link between Uchaa Chudag and the Mongolian- Chinese border town Gaschuun Suchait take. From there, the route is to be led to the railway line Linhe - Ceke on. About the 235 km long freight line with the project name South Gobi Desert Rail to transport to China Railway coal. The long for 25 tonnes axle load and 1,800 meters for freight trains trassierte single-track railway line was planned by the German Bahn subsidiary DB International.
• Further plans provide a compound of the above route with the Trans-Mongolian railway between Ojuu Tolgoi and Bujant - Uchaa.