Belarusian Railway

BCh / БЧ / БелЖД
IndustryRailways
Founded1992; 34 years ago (1992)
Headquarters
Minsk
,
Belarus
Area served
Belarus
ServicesPassenger trains, Rail transport, Cargo
OwnerGovernment of Belarus
Number of employees
60,000 (2025) Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.rw.by

Belarusian Railway (BCh) (Belarusian: Беларуская чыгунка (БЧ) / Biełaruskaja čyhunka, Russian: Белорусская железная дорога (БелЖД)) is Belarus' fully state-owned vertically integrated railway company, both managing infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services and has a near-monopoly on train travel in Belarus.

Overview

The company, formed in 1992 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, is one of the inheritors of the Soviet Railways. It administers 5,512 km of railway with (1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) Russian gauge). The railway's most important station is Minsk Terminal, the central station of the capital.[citation needed]

BCh reports to the ministry of transport and as of 2010 was composed of 84 organizations; 46 enterprises, 38 institutions, and 7 factories/plants. The rail network is divided into 6 departments: named after the regions around Minsk, Baranovichi, Brest, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk.

Infrastructure

Беларуская чыгунка (БЧ)
Белорусская железная дорога (БелЖД)
Belarusian Railway (BCh)
Overview
HeadquartersMinsk
Reporting markBCh, BelZhD
Locale Belarus
Dates of operation1992–present
PredecessorSoviet Railways
Technical
Track gauge1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)
Electrification3 kV DC, 25 kV AC Main
Length5,491 km (3,412 mi)
Other
Websitewww.rw.by

Rolling stock

Electric locomotives
  • ChS4T; Co'Co' electric locomotive
  • VL80, BCG-1; twin-unit (Bo'Bo')-(Bo'Bo') locomotives
Diesel locomotives
Passenger multiple units
  • DR1; diesel multiple unit
  • ER9, Stadler FLIRT (EPg, EPr, EPm); electric multiple units
  • DP1, DP3, DP6 Pesa; diesel multiple unit for Minsk-Vilnius services.

Stations

International sanctions

Belarusian Railway was included in the sanctions lists of Canada in November 2022 and Ukraine in January 2023, respectively. Canada also blacklisted Vladimir Morozov, the head of Belarusian Railway, as later did the European Union, Switzerland, Ukraine, Australia and New Zealand.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ In the second decade of the 21st century the railway moved from using the Russian language for printed publications, to bilinguality - using Belarusian and Russian.

References

  1. ↑ Яўген ВАЛОШЫН (29 January 2011), "Як папулярызуюць родную мову на Беларускай чыгунцы?", news.tut.by (in Belarusian), archived from the original on 25 April 2021, retrieved 30 January 2012
  2. ↑ Общие сведения, www.rw.by (in Russian), Belarusian Railway, archived from the original on 5 May 2010
  3. ↑ БЕЛОРУССКАЯ ЖЕЛЕЗНАЯ ДОРОГА: Отделения дороги, www.rw.by (in Russian), Belarusian Railway, archived from the original on 26 May 2010
  4. ↑ Schedule and search for tickets
  5. ↑ "Belarusian Railway". National Agency for Prevention of Corruption. Archived from the original on 2023-04-14. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  6. ↑ "MOROZOV Vladimir Mikhailovich". National Agency on Corruption Prevention. Archived from the original on 2023-07-11. Retrieved 2023-07-11.
  7. ↑ "Russia Sanctions Amendment Regulations (No 4) 2024". New Zealand Legislation.