Trans-Mongolian Railway

The Trans-Mongolian Railway is a railway line that runs from Ulan -Ude in Russia on the Trans -Siberian Railway to Jining in China. They crossed Mongolia and also binds the capital, Ulaanbaatar, on. The Trans-Mongolian Railway is part of the shortest rail link between Moscow and Beijing.

History

1940 reached the railroad from the north, the Russian- Mongolian border. The railway line was built, moreover, until 1961. In 1950 the railway reached the Mongolian capital. The extension to the Chinese border, began in 1955 during operation, Jining 1961. The Chinese section to Jining was first built in the usual in Russia 1520 mm, after 1965 but umgespurt to standard gauge.

Infrastructure

In Mongolia, the route is single track, double track in China. The track gauge is in Russia and Mongolia, 1520, from Ereen, the gauge changeover station, 1435. A number of spurs close in Mongolia to other cities. They lead, among other things to Erdenet and Bayan Nuur. In addition to the capital Station are other important stations Sükhbaatar, Darkhan, Tschoir, Sainschand, Zamyn - Üüd and Eren Hot ( Border and lane-changing station in China).

In recent years, crossing options were built along the Trans-Mongolian Railway propagated.

Traffic

The Mongolian railways Mongolyn Tomor Zam - Mongolian: Монголын төмөр зам - (MTZ ) operate the route and transport here a considerable part of the total freight traffic of the country, both with its neighbors, as well as in domestic traffic. After the dissolution of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA ) in 1991, the volume of freight traffic fell by about half, but had returned to almost the former amounts to 2005. On the Mongolian section of the Trans-Mongolian Railway 30 percent of passenger traffic in the country are handled. With 4.1 million travelers in the value before the dissolution of the CMEA was achieved again in 2001. Since then gets the relatively slow railway passenger however strong competition from the car traffic on the roads now further expanded.

About the Trans-Mongolian Railway runs once a week one of the two through trains between Moscow to Beijing via the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. This is the shortest rail link between Beijing and Moscow.

Rolling stock

As the locomotives double locomotives 2M62 and 2ТЭ10Л ( 2TE10L ) are used, which were built in Ukraine Luhansk. DASH -7 locomotives were imported from the USA. The cars are similar to those used in Russia.

Usually double locomotives are in double traction, ie two double locomotives before the trains used. An interruption by a broken-down train would have serious consequences, as a Ersatzlok over long distances would have to be brought in and the distance would be long blocked.