DUSHANBE, March 20, 2009, Asia-Plus — A budget for construction of the Vahdat-Yovon railway has been estimated at 129.9 million dollars, Qosimjon Murodov, an engineer-in-chief, Dushanbe-Qurghon Teppa railway project, said in an interview with Asia-Plus.
According to him, the Vahdat-Yovon railway is a section of the railway link that will connect Dushanbe and Qurghon Teppa, the regional center of the Khatlon province.
The Vahdat-Yovon railway that will be 46.3 kilometers in length is expected to be built in two stages. The first phase of the project includes construction of 13 kilometers of railway from the railway station Ilik in the Vahdat district to the railway station Gambuloq in the Roudaki district. The second phase includes construction of a 33.3-kilometer railway from the Gambuloq station to the railway station Yovon-2 that will connect the railways Dushanbe-Vahdat and Yovon-Qurghon Teppa.
Murodov noted that upon construction of the Vahdat-Yovon railway they would start rehabilitation of the railways Dushanbe-Vahdat and Yovon-Qurghon Teppa. “These railways do not meet requirements of main line and need rehabilitation in order to meet parameters of Category 4,” the engineer-in-chief said.
We will recall that the present railway link joining the Tajik capital and QurghonTeppa, which is 429 kilometers in length, runs across the territory of Uzbekistan.
