West Siberian Railway
The Sapadno - Sibirskaja schelesnaja doroga (Russian Западно - Сибирская железная дорога, "West -Siberian Railway " ) is an 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 West -Siberian Railway with headquarters in Novosibirsk operates railways in the 1520 mm ( Russian broad gauge ) with an operating length of 9,000 kilometers in the west Siberian Omsk oblasts, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo and Tomsk and Altai region. To the west Siberian railway, a 120 km long section belongs transit through the North Eastern region of Kazakhstan between stations Tscherlak and Karassuk.
West of the Sverdlovsk railway connects the east the Krasnoyarsk railway. Railway crossings in Kazakhstan are at Issilkul (towards Petropavlovsk ), Kulunda ( direction Pavlodar - Astana ) - operated and Lokot (Almaty direction Semipalatinsk). Another in the line of Irtyschskoje towards Kokshetau since the 1990s out of service.
2008 259.6 million tonnes of cargo, 3.2 million passengers in long-distance and 78.3 million were transported in the suburbs. In the same year the railroad had 70 101 employees. Head of the office is Alexander Zelko.
The West -Siberian Railway is divided into four sub-divisions ( otdelenija ) whose administrations are in Barnaul, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk and Omsk.
History
A "West -Siberian Railway " was the first time in 1896 in connection with the construction of the West Siberian section of the Trans -Siberian Railway. As early as 1902 it was combined with the means to Siberian Siberian railway, emerged from the 1912, the Omsk and Tomsk railway. After various reorganizations were finally in 1961 the former routes of the Tomsk railway that now belonged to the Krasnoyarsk Railway, which united again with the Omsk Railway, so that the West -Siberian Railway was built in its present form. From 1979 to 1996, the routes in the Kuznetsk Basin ( Kiss bass) and to Tomsk were spun off as an independent Kemerovo Railway.
Electrification began in the area of present-day West -Siberian Railway (at this time under the name Kaganovich Railroad, after Lazar Kaganovich, who was also at times of Soviet railway minister) in 1942 with the electrification of the node Novosibirsk with 3000 V DC. 1951, the electrification of remote routes; for the Trans-Siberian main line in the railway administration was completed in 1959. Later, some lines were also electrified with 25 kV 50 Hz AC, so that the West -Siberian Railway is now one of the RŽD stores, operate the routes with different current systems. System interchange stations are Irtyschskaja (south of Omsk ), Tscherepanowo, Artyschta (south of Leninsk- Kuznetsk ) and Meschduretschensk (also transition to the Krasnoyarsk railway).
Stretch
The main routes of the West -Siberian Railway are:
- Trans-Siberian Railway: Section of Nasywajewskaja ( kilometer 2562, inclusive) to Marinsk (km 3713, exclusive ) and the section of the original and present-day southern route of the Trans-Siberian railway from the Kazakh border at Issilkul to Omsk ( 150 km ); all double track, electrified 3000 V =
- Former Turkestan - Siberian Railway: Section of Novosibirsk Barnaul on the Kazakh border at Lokot west of Rubtsovsk; 534 km; Barnaul to double track, single track with double track sections on; to Tscherepanowo electrified with 3000 V DC, to Barnaul with 25 kV 50 Hz ~, not electrified
- "Middle -Siberian Railway " of Omsk Karassuk after Srednesibirskaja north of Barnaul; to Irtyschkoje single track with double track sections, electrified with 3000 V DC, on double track, electrified with 25 kV 50 Hz ~
- " Südsibirische Railway " section of the Kazakh border at Kulunda about Barnaul to Artyschta ( about 600 km, to Barnaul single track, not electrified, further double track, electrified with 25 kV 50 Hz ~ ) and from Novokuznetsk to Meschduretschensk (70 km double track, electrified with 3000 V DC)
- Novosibirsk / Ob - Novokuznetsk - Taschtagol and Jurga - Project Well ( at Leninsk- Kuznetsk ): together about 800 km; Novosibirsk - Novokuznetsk double track, single track rest; all electrified with 3000 V =; these routes open up the Kuznetsk Basin
- A series of random and connecting tracks, all single track and mostly not electrified, including: Tatarskaya - Karassuk - Kulunda - Malinowoje Ozero ( 485 km ); Continue to Lokot was practically completed in the 1980s, but was not taken regularly operational
- Altaiskaja - Bijsk (146 km)
- Taiga - Tomsk - Asino - Bely Yar ( 363 km; nearly 100 km to Tomsk electrified with 3000 V DC)