"BCH" (Belarusian Chygunka) is a state carrier subordinate to the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Belarus. The railway network in Belarus is extensive. It ranks third in the CIS after Russia and Ukraine, so the railway transport in the republic is well developed. For example, several "BCh" trains of different levels of service run in one direction Moscow - Minsk.

BC trains are divided into business class (branded trains) and economy (non-branded). The economy includes trains with old cars. They do not have air conditioning, so it is hot in summer and cold in winter. The interior of the wagons is outdated. At the same time, even in old trains there is a high level of service - they have polite conductors and are always clean.

From the types of cars in the economy class, reserved seats, compartments and SV are available. V reserved seat car There is no air conditioning and dry closet. There is only a regular toilet, which is closed at the stations, which is inconvenient. The compartment and CB have air conditioning, but there is also no dry closet. On an unbranded train, the air conditioner may not work well even if it is turned on.

We recommend traveling in business class. Such trains have their own name - "Minsk", "Belarus", "Neman", etc. In terms of comfort, they correspond to branded trains of Russian Railways. All carriages have air conditioning and dry closets. V branded trains often the fare includes meals (a set of meals or a hot lunch), a TV is installed in the RV. Each compartment has sockets, a button to call the conductor, and the door is closed with an electronic lock.

You can find out how comfortable the train is when buying a ticket on the Tutu.ru website (step "seat selection"). There, each type of car has a description, information about the availability of air conditioning and a dry closet, and passenger reviews. Reviews can only be left by those passengers who actually traveled on this train.

Several types of new trains with a high level of comfort run inside the country. These are seated trains - no other classes of service are required here, as the trip lasts no more than a few hours. In the direction Minsk - Vilnius there are sit-down trains of Polish production, consisting of three cars. In the direction Minsk - Gomel, electric trains of the EPM series run. In the second class there is air conditioning and a dry closet, soft seats with a reclining table, a socket between the seats. The first-class carriage is spacious and has leather seats. In terms of comfort, EPM trains resemble the Sapsan economy class.

New comfortable electric trains of the EPG and EPR series have been launched on regional and city lines (in the capital area). But there are still many old electric trains with hard benches and no air conditioning on the lines. Prices on suburban transport in Belarus, one of the lowest in Europe - they are on average 4 times lower than in the Russian Federation and 8 times lower than in Germany.

At present, the main problem Belarusian trains remains obsolescence of wagons. At the beginning of 2012, the fleet of passenger cars of the Belarusian railway consisted of about 1,700 units. Of these, 56% are recognized as worn out. The government is trying to update the cars - most of them are ordered at the Gomel VZZ.

In terms of quality of service, BC is in second place after Russia among all carriers in the CIS countries. For example, Belarusian trains are much better than most Ukrainian trains. Enough high quality BC trains are also confirmed by the rating on the Tutu.ru website - almost all of them have a rating of 8 or 9 points out of 10.

Using this service, you can make a reservation of seats on passenger trains, both in domestic and international (CIS and Baltic countries) messages, with subsequent registration travel documents(tickets) at points of sale (ticket offices) of the Belarusian Railway in person. Reservation of seats is carried out from 60 to 1 day before the departure of the train, according to the established deadlines for the preliminary sale of travel documents (tickets) for the requested train.

When filling out the order form, be careful: correctly indicate the data about the passenger (last name, first name, patronymic). The key details of the application for determining the route are the station of departure and the station of destination, the train number is an obligatory specifying requisite of the option to follow this route.

The cost of the service for booking is 25 kopecks. for each seat booked.

Up to four places are issued in one order.

Orders are accepted in direct and direct communication. If you need to place an order with a transfer along the route, then you need to send two or more orders, depending on the number of transfers.

To purchase a travel document (ticket), you or your authorized representative must appear at the ticket office to issue travel documents at any time convenient for you before the expiration date of your order specified in the notification. The validity of the order, as a rule, is 2 days (including the day of booking). When booking a day before the departure of the train, the order is made according to the period specified in the notification. When booking on the current day of train departure, the order is terminated 2 hours before its departure, regardless of the date of application.

To ensure that the client is notified about the results of order processing, an on-line polling of the status of the application is implemented using the “Your order” tab.

Addresses, opening hours of points of sale of travel documents can be found at the link.

Applications are considered in the order they are received by the Contact Center of the Belarusian Railways.

Rules for ordering tickets.

You can order a service for booking seats, which is carried out from 60 days to 1 day before the departure of the train, according to the established deadlines for the preliminary sale of travel documents (tickets) for the requested train.

Applications are processed around the clock, as a result of which you will receive an Order Notification to the e-mail specified in your application. The notification will contain the conditions for issuing travel documents.

Passage registration must be carried out within the time specified in the Notice, otherwise the seats will be sold in the order of free sale.

Issuance of travel documents in international railway traffic to the CIS and Baltic states is carried out on the basis of information about the document,

identification of the passenger (children under the age of 14 - birth certificates). When applying for a concessionary fare, you must submit the original document entitling you to the concession.

Please note that travel documents are issued only for the persons specified in the application.

Please note that the issuance of travel documents (tickets) for group applications is carried out in accordance with the Procedure for organizing the transportation of organized groups of passengers by trains of regional, interregional and international lines on the Belarusian Railway, available at the link.

By choosing the following operation, you confirm your agreement with the specified conditions.

As you, dear and respected readers, may have noticed from my previous posts, not so long ago (a month ago) I returned from a trip to our northern neighbor, the Republic of Belarus. About cities, their appearance, sights, etc. I told. And now I would like to tell you about an integral part and one of the integral symbols of any civilized state - about the Belarusian railway, especially about the system passenger traffic.

Though Belarusian Railway(hereinafter - BC, abbreviated from official name BZD-Belarusian Chygunka) some 25 years ago was part of the same huge railway transport system as the railways of Ukraine (hereinafter UZ, short for the official name Ukrzaliznytsya), during this period a lot of differences formed between them, about which, basically, and will be discussed. So, the first and most important difference lies in the classification of rail transportation. In the open spaces of UZ, a more soviet "system of separating trains into suburban, night passenger (fast, passenger and express) and daytime passenger (Intercity, regional express and regional train), of which only such a concept as a day passenger train appeared during independence. Soviet time trains of this format ran as local trains. In Belarus, during the time of independence, the train classification system has changed dramatically, becoming more modern and European. , business class and international lines. Also, such concepts as trains of urban and commercial lines appeared. Each of these subspecies of trains began to have its own markings and colors, the symbols of these subspecies were the types of flowers growing on the territory of Belarus

Now let's move on to such an important factor as the quality of service and service at stations, stations and inside trains. In this regard, the important advantages of BC in relation to UZ are a much higher degree of modernization of the country's main stations (interactive electronic scoreboards, better and more modern finishing of cash registers halls and waiting rooms), the lack of division into suburban, intercity and international ticket offices, the ability to buy a train ticket using a payment card of international systems, the presence of self-service ticket machines at major stations (however, only the owner of a national payment system card can buy a ticket in such a machine , Belkart", on which I managed to get burned once.) In the photo below is the waiting room and the ticket office of one of these modernized train stations, the train station of Grodno station.

Most of the largest Ukrainian railway stations reconstructed during the 2000s and 2010s look, although not like after a nuclear war, but clearly do not reach the level of modern ones. Let's just say that such a reconstruction could be considered ideal in the 70s and 80s last century, but not now
Another important factor in rail transportation is the frequency of trains. In this regard, the BC is also significantly ahead of the UZ trains, they run with the Soviet frequency, there are a large number of direct cars, since Soviet times, not a single branch, not counting some sections on the border with other states, has not been canceled.
The third factor by which UZ and BC can be compared is the state of the rolling stock. It is also worth noting the advantage of BC - most of the rolling stock on interregional and international lines is either new or from KVRN. It was a shock for me to see a modern car with a vacuum toilet and an electronic scoreboard, following in general mode in a regular train. The rolling stock of regional business class lines and city lines consists entirely of modern Swiss-made trains, the so-called Stadler Flirt. By the way, these trains have recently been produced on
territory of Belarus, in the suburbs of Minsk Fanipol

On regional economy class lines, like our suburban ones, they mostly use good old electric or diesel trains manufactured by the Riga Carriage Works, although there are also newer examples, such as DP1 (620M) or modernized DR1B

But we also have such instances, so
what can we say that in terms of suburban MVPS, UZ is approximately on the same level as the warhead. Although this statement is debatable, because the Belarusian rolling stock is much better cared for than the Ukrainian one. The photo below is a typical electric train "of the only depot serving Belarusian electric trains-Minsk TC-9

Tariffs are another factor by which our railways can be compared. It can be said with confidence that in Belarus they are quite cheap, more expensive than in Ukraine, but quite adequate to the incomes of the local population. you will pay 16,800 Belarusian rubles (21.84 UAH, 60.66 rubles), while in Ukraine (in the open spaces, for example, the Lviv Railway) it will cost 15 hryvnias (11,538 Belarusian rubles, 41.6 rubles).
So, it is logical that after discussing all the advantages of the Belarusian Railway, you can safely move on to its disadvantages. The first and most important of them is the high degree of negligence of the employees of the controlling link, there may not be controllers or conductors on the evening train to Minsk. And they can simply sit in the car and never go to check or sell tickets during the whole trip. None of Belarusian railway stations It is not a turnkey, not one of them has such a thing as platform control of passengers. Also, not a very pleasant fact is the absence of glasses in cup holders in most cars and the absence of many types of social benefits in a state that declares itself social.
But in general terms, we can say with confidence that the warhead is still constantly progressing, it has a more or less bright present and a good and understandable future, which, alas, cannot be said about the native UZ.

Media files at Wikimedia Commons

Scheme of the Belarusian railway.

The BZD is connected with the railways of neighboring countries: Latvia (Latvijas dzelzceļš), Lithuania (Lietuvos Geležinkeliai), Poland (Polskie Koleje Państwowe), Russia (Moscow and October railways of Russian Railways) and Ukraine (South-Western and Lviv railways UZ).

Branches of the Belarusian railway. Minsk branch Baranovichi branch Brest branch Vitebsk branch Gomel branch Mogilev branch

Story

for the first time, a permanent railway connection was opened on December 27, 1862 on the Porechye - Grodno section of the St. Petersburg-Warsaw Railway.
in 1866 the Dinaburgo-Vitebsk railway was opened, in 1868 the Orel-Vitebsk railway was opened (in 1895 they were merged into a single Riga-Oryol railway with management in Riga).
in 1871, the line Moscow - Smolensk - Brest of the Moscow-Brest railway was opened (since 1912 - the Alexandrovskaya railway).
in 1873, the Novo-Vileisk - Minsk - Gomel line was opened, and in 1874 - the Gomel - Romny line of the Landvarovo-Romenskaya railway (since 1876 - the Libavo-Romenskaya railway).
in 1882 the Zhabinka-Pinsk line was opened, in 1884 the Pinsk-Luninets-Vilna line, in 1886 the Luninets-Gomel and Baranovichi-Bialystok railway lines, and in 1887 the Gomel-Bryansk railway line, which became part of the Polesie railways , whose management was in Vilna.
in the city, a railway line was designed from Lyntup to the town of Svir (24 versts) and further to Smorgon, and in the city - a line from Lyntup to Shemetovo, Izhu to Molodechno.
in 1902, the Riga-Oryol railway was replenished with the Vitebsk - Zhlobin line.
in 1907, the Polesye railways were replenished with the Volkovysk-Lida-Polotsk line.
in the fall of the year, the Russian army, despite the stubborn resistance of the Germans, liberated railway stations Molodechno, Vileyka and Krivichi (now Knyaginin) of the Polesye railways from the Kaiser troops.
at the end of the year, the formed 13th company (240 people) of the German reserve infantry regiment No. 251 under the command of Captain Götting built a station in the front-line town of Shemetovo and connected Lyntupy and Shemetovo with the help of a field narrow-gauge railway.
in 1922, the Alexandrovskaya Railway and the Moscow-Baltic Railway were merged into the Moscow-Belarusian-Baltic Railway.
in the year the Czech writer Karel Vanek wrote a novel "The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik in Russian Captivity". By the will of the writer, the good soldier Schweik is captured by the Russians during the First World War, where he is sent to build a military railway to the Budslav station.
in 1936, the Western Railway with management in Smolensk and the Belarusian Railway with management in Gomel were separated from the Moscow-Belarusian-Baltic Railway.
in 1937 in Western Belarus, on the occasion of the completion of the construction of a 4-kilometer section of the narrow-gauge railway Kobylnik - Lake Naroch, Archbishop Yalbzhikovsky delivered a solemn speech.
On November 17, 1939, the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On the remaking of railways" was issued. Western Ukraine and Western Belarus and the conversion of rolling stock to the track of the USSR ".
02.12. the Brest-Litovsk railway with management in Baranovichi and the Bialystok railway were created.
28.07. The Minsk branch of the Western Railway was merged with the Brest-Litovsk Railway to form the Minsk Railway.
15.05. The Minsk railway merged with the Belarusian railway.
in 1957, the Vitebsk and Orsha branches of the Western Railway were transferred to the Belarusian Railway.
07.12. The first electrified section of the Belarusian railway Minsk-Olekhnovichi with a length of 48 km was solemnly commissioned.
Depot Minsk-Sortirovochny switches from locomotive to diesel traction.
Depot Mogilev switches from locomotive to diesel traction
The Belarusian Railway started operating electric locomotives.
On July 1, at the Lyntupy station, at the initiative of the local historian E. Gromov, a bust of the “king of the narrow gauge railway”, engineer, deputy of the First State Duma Boleslav Antonovich Yalovetsky, was installed.

Timeline of electrification

Year	length railway common use, km	including electrify- roved, km	%
2000	5533	874	16
2005	5518	897	16
2010	5503	898	16
2011	5503	899	16
2012	5483	899	16
2013	5490	1013	18
2014	5491	1012	18
2015	5491	1128	21
2016	5480	1131	21
2017	5480	1215	22
2018	5480	1228	22

The Belarusian Railway uses the 25 kV AC voltage standard, with the exception of the Grodno-Bruzgi and Brest-Tsentralny sections bordering with PKP - the border with Poland (and further to Terespol), which operate the Polish 3 kV DC electric rolling stock. The only docking station operating in Belarus is Brest-Tsentralny: the northern side with the European gauge tracks is electrified on the Polish direct current of 3 kV, the southern (Russian gauge) - on the Belarusian alternating current (25 kV).

: Minsk - Olekhnovichi;
: Olekhnovichi - Molodechno;
: Minsk - Pukhovichi;
: Pukhovichi - Talc;
: Talca - Osipovichi;
: Minsk - Borisov;
: Minsk - Stolbtsy;
: Orsha - Red;
: Borisov - Orsha;
: Stolbtsy - Baranovichi;
: Baranovichi - Brest;
: Grodno - Kuznitsa (1 track on the 1435 mm gauge, the track on the 1520 mm gauge is not electrified);
: Thought - Kryzhovka;
: Osipovichi - Zhlobin.
: Zhlobin - Gomel.
: Molodechno - Gudogai - the state border of Lithuania (then the section to Naujoji-Vilnia is electrified). Detour of Minsk: Kolodishchi - Shabany

Prospects for electrification:

Current state

Cargo transportation

Structure of cargo loading by types, million tons (2017)

Number of transported containers in China-EU-China communication (thousand, in 20-foot equivalent)

According to the former head of the Belarusian Railways Anatoly Sivak, as of January 1, 2012, the fleet of passenger cars of the Belarusian railway consisted of 1,691 units. The average service life of passenger cars is about 23 years. The depreciation of the fleet of passenger cars is about 56%. As regards the provision freight traffic, then at present the inventory fleet of the Belarusian Railways has 28643 freight cars, of which 4617 are covered, 2914 platforms, 6914 gondola cars, 7027 tanks and 7171 other cars. Depreciation of the park is 58.3%.

The Belarusian Railways is characterized by a number of problems, one of which is the high depreciation of fixed assets - depreciation is 64.7%, 42% of the cars are used with an expired service life. The deficit of investments in the Belarusian Railways amounted to [ when?] 461 billion Belarusian rubles in 2000 (approximately $163.5 million). Until 2009, the lack of investment was covered by attracting credit resources from banks. In 2009, the Belarusian Railways needs to return 233 billion Belarusian rubles (about $82.5 million) to banks.

Since the beginning of 2012, the Belarusian Railways has purchased 2,673 freight cars. Including, 1,470 gondola cars, 676 tank cars, 411 cement hopper cars and 116 covered cars were purchased. The rolling stock is delivered to the main line in accordance with the concluded contracts in accordance with the approved delivery schedules. In total, in 2012 the railway plans to purchase 3,746 freight cars: 2,080 gondola cars, 1,000 tank cars, 550 cement hoppers and 116 box cars. The renewal of the rolling stock is one of the most important investment projects of the Belarusian Railway, which is carrying out purposeful work in this direction. According to the State Program for the Development of Railway Transport in Belarus, by the end of 2015 the Belarusian Railways will purchase a total of 12.5 thousand units of new rolling stock. In 2018, the Belarusian Railways purchased 429 wagons, including 416 open wagons, 10 covered wagons and 3 flatcars.

Also in 2016, the freight turnover of rail transport amounted to 41.1 billion ton-kilometers (32.7% of the total freight turnover of all modes of transport), a total of 126.8 million tons of cargo was transported. Thus, the share of rail transport in the structure of cargo transportation by all modes of transport amounted to 30.4%. The volume of transportation has decreased in comparison with the previous year . In 2015, 80.3 million tons of cargo were loaded onto rail transport, of which 22.5 million tons were oil and oil products, 20.1 million tons were construction cargo, 13.3 million tons were chemical and mineral fertilizers, 6.6 million tons - timber, 3.6 million tons - cement, 2.1 million tons - ferrous metals, 1.2 million tons - grain and grinding products, 10.9 million tons - other cargoes.

In general, for 2016, the revenue amounted to 357.28 million Belarusian rubles (-1.2% compared to 2015), and the net profit of the association decreased by 68.05% to 6.27 million rubles (about 3 million US dollars at the then exchange rate). The total profit amounted to 9.1 million rubles (taking into account the revaluation of long-term assets that are not included in net income). As of December 31, 2016, the association's liabilities for lease payments amounted to 244.28 million rubles, and the total volume of long-term loans and borrowings amounted to 806.8 million rubles.

In 2018, the tariff freight turnover reached its maximum value since 1993 (52.6 billion t km, an increase of 8.3% compared to 2017). The turnover of a freight car decreased to 3.85 days, the productivity of cars increased to 4926 t·km netto/car, locomotives - increased to 1297 thousand t·km gross/locomotive. To increase the efficiency of cargo transportation, extended service arms by locomotive crews, an increase in the length and weight of trains, and the use of BKG2 electric locomotives according to the system of many units were widely used. At the end of 2018, revenues from cargo transportation (2,716 million rubles, or $1,300 million) accounted for 79.4% of the total revenues of the railway. The number of containers transported through the Republic of Belarus only in the China-EU-China traffic reached 331.5 thousand in 20-foot equivalent (+29%), the number of container trains - 2835 (+6.4%). The total number of containers transported by rail in 2018 amounted to 635.4 thousand in 20-foot equivalent, and more than half of the containers (474.3 thousand) were transported by fast container trains. At the end of 2018, there were 667 diesel locomotives and 97 electric locomotives in the inventory fleet of the Belarusian Railways (total 764 locomotives, including for passenger trains). 226 stations are open for cargo work.

To increase the efficiency of container trains passing, they are enlarged at the Brest-Severny station, when reloading from the European gauge, according to the 2:1 system (out of 2 trains 1435 mm - 1 train 1520 mm) or 3:2 (3 and 2, respectively). The disaggregation takes place at the Dostyk station on the Kazakh-Chinese border, when reloading to the 1435 mm gauge. The route speed of container trains from Brest to Osinovka station on the Belarusian-Russian border is 1172 km/day.

Most of the goods transported by rail are international, more than a quarter - transit. Thus, out of 146,295 thousand tons of cargo transported by rail in 2017, 112,785 thousand tons (77.1%) accounted for international traffic, including 39,082 thousand tons (26.7% of the total ) - for transit. Of the 48,538 million tkm of cargo turnover in 2017, 38,495 million tkm (79.3%) were international traffic, including 15,958 million tkm (32.9% of the total cargo turnover) for transit.

In 2018, 79% of the tariff cargo turnover was international: 37% - transit, 32% - for export, 10% - for import. Transportation in the republic amounted to 21% of the tariff freight turnover.

The busiest stations (by loading):

Freight Format

Republican Freight Forwarding Unitary Enterprise "BELINTERTRANS - Transport and Logistics Center" of the Belarusian Railways (abbr. State Enterprise "BTLC")

Passenger Transportation

For the whole of 2018, the Belarusian Railway transported 79.9 million passengers, including 62.2 million people in regional traffic (77.9% of the total volume of passenger transportation by rail), 10.2 million people in interregional traffic (12. 7%), 3.8 million passengers in international traffic and urban lines (4.7% each). The number of passengers increased on urban and international lines, while the total number of passengers carried decreased by 0.9%. The number of passengers on international routes increased most noticeably with Latvia (+17.2%), Lithuania (+14.7%), less significantly - with Ukraine (+4.7%) and Poland (+3.6%) - in largely due to the organization of new trains and the organization of more spacious trains running on the recently electrified Molodechno-Gudogai section. The total passenger turnover amounted to 6215.3 million pass-km. In 2018, the Belarusian Railways revenue from passenger traffic amounted to 358 million rubles. (about $170 million), or 10.5% of operating income.

In 2015, the Belarusian Railways carried 87.1 million passengers, including 4 million international flights (1.7 million imports, 1.7 million exports, 0.6 million transit), 12.4 million interregional and regional business class lines, 67.4 million regional economy lines and 3.3 million city lines. Passenger turnover amounted to 7,117 million passenger-km - 1,124 million by international traffic, 3,032 million by interregional and regional business class lines, 2,962 million by regional economy class lines (including 73 million by urban lines). Statistics popular destinations not published.

Passengers carried (million) :	including regional lines economy class and city lines (million) :

As of the end of 2018, there were 288 sections of electric trains and 145 sections of diesel trains in the inventory of the Belarusian Railways. Passenger transportation is carried out by electric trains ER9 and Stadler Flirt (EPg, EPr, EPm), as well as diesel trains DR1, DDB1, DP1, DP3. Prices for suburban tickets are among the lowest in Europe (after Ukraine and Moldova), they are on average 4 times lower than in Russia and 8 times lower than in Germany.

In mid-2019, passengers on average recovered 43% of the cost of organizing transportation, and by 2020, the level of cost recovery of the railway for passenger rail transportation is expected to increase to 60%. In 2019, the reimbursement ranged from full on international trains to 16% on regional economy trains and 21% on urban lines. On March 20, 2018, fares for trains on regional economy class lines were increased by 24% (up to 20 kopecks (about $ 0.1) for the first zone + 2 kopecks for each additional kilometer), however, for the year, the cost recovery level for this type of transportation , according to the Belarusian Railways, grew by only 1%. Permission to increase tariffs is given by the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of the Republic of Belarus, taking into account inflationary expectations and an increase in the income level of the population. According to the publication ex-press.by, when cost recovery is increased to 100%, the cheapest options for passenger transportation by rail will become uncompetitive compared to road transport.

Passenger transport format

Since 2011, a new classification of passenger traffic has been introduced:

International lines
Commercial lines
Interregional lines

Directions of suburban trains of the Minsk branch

Molodechno direction BZD

Chiefs

Development prospects

Among the main promising areas for the development of the Belarusian Railway, approved in 2011, awaiting implementation as of 2019:

In the 2000s - early 2010s, plans were repeatedly announced for the construction of a railway line to the Lelchitsky district of the Gomel region for the export of products from deposits of building stone and brown coal, adjoining the existing railway network at Mikhalki or Yelsk stations.

Carriage economy

Locomotive economy

There are 16 main and four circulating locomotive depots on the road, one multiple unit depot.

Main locomotive depots:

PM-1 Minsk-Sorting (ChS4T, TEP60, TEP70, TEP70BS, M62, DM62, 2M62, ChME3, ChME3T, ChME3E, TGK2, TME1, TME2, TME3, DP3. Formerly 2TEP60)
PM-2 Molodechno (M62, ChME3, ChME3T, TGK2)
PM-3 Baranovichi (VL80 S, BKG1, DR1 A, DR1 B, ER9 E, ChME3, ChME3T, TME1, TGM3, TEM2UM, TGM23 D. Previously also M62, DR1, DR1 P, VL80 K, TE3)
PM-4 Luninets (M62, 2M62, 2M62U, DM62, ChME3, TME1, TGM23 V. Formerly TGM4)
PM-5 Lida (M62, ChME3, ChME3T, MDP, TGM23 B, TGC2, TME3. Formerly ChME3E)
PM-6 Volkovysk (M62, 2M62, 2M62U, ChME3, ChME3T, ChME3E, TGK2)
PM-7 Brest (M62, 2M62, ChME3, ChME3T, DR1 A, MDP, TME3. Formerly TGK2 and DR1 P)
TCH-8 Gomel (M62, 2TE10U, ChME3, ChME3T, ChME3E, TME3, TGK2, DR1 A, DR1 B, ER9 E. Formerly TGM6 V and DR1 P)

PM-10 Zhlobin (M62, ChME3)
TCh-11 Kalinkovichi (M62, 2M62, ChME3, ChME3T, TME1, TME3, DP1)
TCh-12 Mogilev (M62, 2M62, 2M62U, TGM4, TGM4 A, TGM4 B, TGM23 D, ChME3, ChME3T, DRB1, DP1, DP3)
TCh-13 Osipovichi (M62, ChME3, ChME3T, TGM4, TME3)
PM-14 Krichev (ChME3)
PM-15 Orsha (TEP70, M62, 2M62, ChME3, ChME3T, MDP, DRB1. Formerly DR1 P, DR1 A, TEP60)
PM-16 Vitebsk (TEP60, 2TE10M, ChME3, ChME3T, ChME3E, TME1)
TCH-17 Polotsk (M62, 2M62, 2M62U, ChME3, ChME3T, DDB1)

Revolving locomotive depots:

TD-1 Bobruisk
TD-2 Grodno
TD-3 Krulevshchizna
TD-4 Slutsk

Steam locomotives

In the 19th-20th centuries, steam locomotives of the G-49 series (Zigl Plant, Vienna, since 1862), V (Kolomensky Zavod, since 1871), Nv (since 1892), (since 1892), Ov (since 1893), (since 1906), (since 1910), Su (since 1930), Eu (since 1926), FD (since 1938), TE, TE, TL, TS, TO, 55 (since 1942), SO (since 1938), IS (since 1939), Er (since 1946), (since 1947), LV (since 1955), P36 (since 1955).

locomotives

The first diesel locomotives appeared on the Belarusian Railway in 1945 (the Yes series), but their active introduction began only in the 1960s: TE2 (since 1963), TE3 (since 1965), TE7 (since 1967), VME1 ( since 1960), TGM1 (since 1960), TGM3 (since 1961). Their operation on public railways has been discontinued by now, however, shunting diesel locomotives TGM1 and TGM3 are used by individual industrial enterprises. As of 2019, diesel locomotives TEP60 and 2TEP60 (since 1965), ChME3 (since 1965), M62, 2M62 and 2M62U (since 1970), TEM2 (since 1971), TEP70 (since 1973; TEP70BS - s 2006), 2TE10M (since 1987), 2TE10U (since 1990), TME1 (since 2011), TME3 (since 2012)

Diesel trains

On the Belarusian railway different time diesel trains were used

It is surprising that in the 21st century, in order to purchase a train ticket, it is easier to call the reservation number (although it is also not easy to get through to 151), book a ticket and stand in a 40-minute queue at the box office that very evening than to buy the coveted a three-click ticket on the Internet. There are much more clicks, and you risk just not going anywhere.

Just recently, I had to spend at least three hours of precious time to buy the coveted train ticket. I tell you how it all happened.

So you go to the Website of the Belarusian Railways, in the tab "Trains of international lines, interregional lines, regional business class lines" (thank you, it has become easy to find recently), enter points A and B of your route, choose a train and ... nothing not happening. The page of the selected train shows free seats, types of carriages, fare. There are back and back buttons.

To buy a ticket, you need to login. I remember that I registered on the site twice already, but why the third time I can’t find the window where to enter my login and password? .. After several minutes of wandering around the page, I find it in the second tab. Registering.

By searching in the mail, I find the login and password that were once sent to me, enter, click next, on the next page I agree with the Rules and features of placing an order, its payment ... and I get to the page where you need to choose a train.

“Only Russian letters and special characters are allowed,” the site warns me when I try to enter the departure station before I can change the language from English to Russian. By the way, he is not friendly with the Belarusian either.

Next, I enter the stations, date, drive in the number of passengers (maximum 4 per operation). Another window opens where I can change the date and/or time of departure and click "continue". On the next page, I choose the type of car and seat from the available ones.

And on the next page they ask me for my full name, passport number and offer to introduce additional requirements for places (for example, indicate a specific place or ask for only the lower one). By the way, which is commendable, the system saves the data of previously entered passengers (for whom it was possible to buy tickets). Long live time saving!

But while I have not a single ticket purchased through the site, I click "continue", I click "continue" again on the "Checking details of the trip" page.

On the "Order Confirmation" page, I can choose a payment system for paying for the order. Internet banking of JSC “ASB Belarusbank” does not suit me, since I plan to pay with an Alfa-Bank card - therefore, I choose the “Settlement” system (AIS ERIP) and click “pay for the order”.

"It is necessary to pay for the order in the Calculation system within 20 minutes," the site warns me. The list of banks falls out.

Literally in 10 minutes I manage to call my bank, find out how to connect Internet banking (well, I didn’t need it before), I connect it. And then I understand that this is not enough - the card needs to be linked to the Self-Service Banking System (SBS). After all, the site of the "piece of iron" writes that the cardholders of my bank are served by SBS Internet banking. On the SBS website, which I select from the list, they require me to login and password. And of course, this is not the same login and password for Alfa-Bank Internet banking!

On the SBS website I read how to connect: I am offered to go to the nearest ATM in order to open access for Internet banking through it. Then get a check with a username and password at an ATM, enter it on the SBS website and "pay for access to the service within a year." For some reason, the partner bank's ATM does not want to give me access. Meanwhile, the BelZhD website sends a letter to the post office stating that "the order for the purchase of tickets has been canceled" (the time allotted for payment has expired).

There are no hopes to buy a ticket for the train, where exactly 6 seats are left. I had to quickly remember all my friends who could buy train tickets through the site. Suddenly they were more fortunate.

A savior has been found. She suggested a payment method through PLATI.TUT.BY, where one of the hundreds of sections is listed as "Payment for railway tickets" (however, I did not find a word about this payment method on the "piece of iron" website).

In the "pay" section, I enter the payment code, pay by card, and then click "Check payment" on the BelZhD website page. And I have the ticket order form in my hands. It is enough to print and ... exchange at the railway ticket office for a normal ticket. Here's an unexpected twist.

In order not to go to the cashier, personal account on the site, it turns out, you can perform electronic registration, but, unfortunately, it does not work for all directions - including this is impossible for the Lviv - Minsk train, for which I still managed to buy a ticket. "TO GET A TICKET AT THE STATION OF DEPARTURE IS IMPOSSIBLE", - it appears in additional information about my order. You will have to go to the cashier with your passport.

In general, it is not without reason that a video with instructions on how to buy tickets is posted on the "piece of iron" website in the "Information for Passengers" section, for which I did not have enough time. And now let's calculate how many actions I had to perform in order to buy a single ticket ...

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