Caravanistan

Passenger train traffic on this line was opened today. Several trains to Nukus/Urgench now use this line, thus saving 2 hrs. Also Bukhara now gets direct trains to Urgench!
http://railway.uz/ru/informatsionnaya_s ... osti/9589/

Good news: https://eurasianet.org/s/tajikistan-uzbekistan-open-10-new-border-crossings Tajikistan, Uzbekistan Open 10 New Border Crossings The development adds deeds to words of improved relations between the formerly hostile neighbors. Mar 1, 2018 Uzbekistan and Tajikistan opened 10 new bordering c...

Dear fellow-travellers, At the moment I am planning my trip and routes from west Uzbekistan to west Tadzjiskistan (Dushanbe/ Fan mountains), and from there then to Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. Some questions regarding this: - I am planning to travel by train. Is it possible to travel by train from Samark...

The Almaty - Tashkent train will soon run 3 times weekly (instead of twice weekly): https://www.interfax.kz/?lang=eng&int_id=21&news_id=29946 There are also talks about extending the Urumchi - Almaty train to Tashkent in summer season: http://lenta.inform.kz/ru/poezd-almaty-tashkent-budet-kursirovat...

If you buy a ticket for an Uzbek train online from Russian Railways you will have to pick up the booked ticket at any train station in RUSSIA before (at the ticket office or ticket machine)....

Uzbek Railways report about the constrcution progress on the new 335 km from Buckara to Miskin: http://railway.uz/uz/informatsionnaya_sluzhba/novosti/7594/ The 335 km line will shorten the distance from Tashkent to Urgench/Nukus by 75 km and will also enable direct serices from Buckara to Urgench/Nu...

Press release of Kazakh railways: http://temirzholy.kz/press-tsentr/press-relizy/zapushchen-poezd-soobshcheniem-astana-almaty-urumchi.html http://www.kazpravda.kz/en/news/society/astana---almaty---urumqi-train-launched/ More information also regarding prices and bookinmg procedure in China: http://w...

The Dushanbe - Astana train doesn't use the relatively new line Kumkurgan - Tashguzar (- Karshi) inside Uzbekistan, but uses the traditional route around the mountains via Kelif/Turkmenistan. So it's probaly of not much use for international tourists, who need a visa for Turkmenstan.

According to some sources passenger train service via the border point Altynkol/Khorgos has been opened recently: http://russian.people.com.cn/n3/2017/0610/c31518-9226729.html Passengers have to change trains at Altynkol. Between Altynkol and Astana a Kazakh Talgo train is operationg the service. A ...

Probably the best source to check timetable and place availability for Uzbek train is the webiste of Russian Railways: https://pass.rzd.ru/timetable/public/en?STRUCTURE_ID=729 Uzbek Railways use the same booking system as most other former Soviet railways, so their trains appear in the database of R...