DUSHANBE, August 31, Asia-Plus — Tajik Railways has made a decision to send a group of its specialists on repairing locomotives to Moldova to take refresher course.
According to the Tajik Railways press service, the decision has been made for the purpose of meeting demands of market economy and international standards.
Tajikistan’s rolling-stock includes 1,766 cargo cars, 342 passenger carriages and 57 diesel locomotives. Over the first two quarters of this year, the Tajikthe Railwways has repaired 5 diesl locomtives. They have been repiared at the Tashkent carrige-building works in Uzbekistan. In all, some 80 percent of the country’s rolling-stock has been repaired so far.
At present Tajik Railways offers three routes to the Russian Federation (Dushanbe-Moscow, Kulob-Moscow, Khujand-Saratov) and four domestic routes (Dushanbe-Konibodom, Qurghon Teppa-Konibodom, Dushanbe-Pakhtaobod and Qurghon Teppa-Kulob).
The total length of rails in Tajikistan is 950 kilometers; of that, 680 kilometers are the main railways. At present there are 31 railway stations in the republic.
