Belarusian Railway

Belarusian Railway (BCh) ( () / Biełaruskaja čyhunka, ) 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 (). The railway's most important station is Minsk Terminal, the central station of the capital.

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

Rolling stock Electric locomotives ChS4T; Co'Co' electric locomotive VL80, BCG-1; twin-unit (Bo'Bo')-(Bo'Bo') locomotives

Diesel locomotives M62, TE10, 2TE116, TEP60, TEP70, ChME3; Co'Co' diesel electric locomotives TGK2; two-axle diesel shunter

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.

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