Bch Belarusian railway. Features of the Belarusian railway

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 the official name BZD-Belarusian chygunka) some 25 years ago was part of the same huge railway transport system as the Ukrainian railways (hereinafter UZ, abbreviated from the official name Ukrzaliznytsya), for this the period between them, many differences have formed, which, basically, 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 dividing trains into suburban, night passenger (fast, passenger and express) and day passenger (Intercity, regional express and regional train), of which during the independence only such a thing as a day passenger train appeared. "In Soviet times, trains of this format ran like local ones. In Belarus, during independence the train classification system has changed dramatically, becoming more modern and European. Former suburban trains have changed their name to, reg international lines of economy class", passenger trains began to be divided into trains of interregional lines of economy class, 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 are 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. Here 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 modern wagon 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 is safe to say 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.

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• from settlements of Crimea from 4 to 24 hours;
• in settlements Crimea from 30 minutes to 24 hours.

Registration " single tickets"to the Crimea and back is carried out at the next transfer time from train to bus:

• from settlements of Crimea from 4 to 24 hours;
• to the settlements of Crimea from 30 minutes to 24 hours.

On trains marked with the "Excellent payment" icon, a deferred payment service is available

If a price range is indicated for the selected car, then the cost varies depending on the type of seat (upper side - upper - lower), and for Lux and SV cars of the Strizh train - depending on the number of passengers in a compartment (1 or 2).

The fare on Sapsan trains, on Lastochka trains of the 700th numbering of the DOSS carrier (OJSC Russian Railways), as well as on trains with the DC sign, changes automatically depending on demand and departure date and is not a public offer.

Information on the application of special tariffs (Senior, Junior, road map) .

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At the step "Passenger data and payment", the seat is reserved and the actual fare is displayed.

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

• first time permanent railway communication 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 Aleksandrovskaya 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 11/17/1939, a resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On the rebuilding of the railways of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus and the conversion of rolling stock to the gauge of the USSR" was issued.
• 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

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

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 railway 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 were widely used. locomotive crews, increasing the length and weight of trains, the use of BKG2 electric locomotives according to the system of many units. 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%). Total 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 accelerated 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. So, 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 volume of cargo) - 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.

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, reimbursement levels 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 by car.

Passenger transportation 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 voiced to build a railway line to the Lelchitsky district of the Gomel region for the export of products from deposits of building stone and lignite, adjoining the existing railway network at Mikhalki or Yelsk station.

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 now been discontinued, however, shunting diesel locomotives TGM1 and TGM3 are used by separate 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

Diesel trains were used on the Belarusian Railway at different times

The Belarusian Railway (Belarusian Chygunka) is a state association subordinate to the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus. It includes 66 organizations with the status of a legal entity, as well as three representative offices.

The BC apparatus is considered to be the Directorate of the Belarusian Railway. BC is also connected with the railways of some countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Russian Federation, Ukraine).

Contact information of the Belarusian railway:

• Address: Minsk city, st. Lenin 17.
• Phone number: +375 17 225-63-10 (Information).
• Fax: +375 17 227-56-48.
• Official site www.rw.by.
• Hours of Operation: The Help Desk is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Belarusian Railway

The railway provides moving services not only to anywhere in the country, but also in an international format.
Belarusian cast iron: official website of the company

The site posted online schedule Belarusian railway trains:

Helpful information: Belarusian Chygunka offers to visit the site, which is quite modern and easy to use. Here you will find all the necessary information. The site also has a line that facilitates the search for information, and a personal account of the Belarusian Chygunka.

Moreover, the site is constantly updated, so it is convenient to follow the news of the railway and learn about innovations, changes in train operation and ticket prices.

Promotions, discounts, special offers

The Belarusian Railway takes care of its passengers, providing them with various amenities in the form of a system of special offers.

Current bonuses when buying tickets for the Belarusian railway at the link:

Discounts for travel in the direction Belarus-Russia

They depend on the timing of the sale of tickets to the total cost of travel on the territory of the Russian and Belarusian Railways for passengers when buying compartment and SV cars.

This offer includes:

• 20% discount on the total fare, subject to sale between 60 and 30 days before the departure of the required train.
• 15% discount on the total cost when selling a ticket from 30 to 21 days before the train departure.
• 0% discount for ticket purchase from 20 to 11 days before the train departure.
• When traveling in class SV carriages, as well as compartment carriages of the Belarusian Railways trains in some directions, a discount rate of 10% is also applied from the total cost when purchasing a travel document in the round trip directions.
• 5% surcharge when selling a ticket from 10 days.

When purchasing a ticket for reserved seat category the car has a 10% discount on side seats.

Note! The discount is valid when buying tickets at the box office at the railway station.

When buying tickets for a group in the direction of the CIS countries, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, a discount is provided:

• 20% of the fare for a group of adults (10 - 24 people).
• 30% of the cost of a group of adults (starting from 25 persons).

Discounts on travel in Belarus-Lithuania

Passengers who buy a ticket on the Minsk-Vilnius route, upon presentation of travel documents at the ticket offices of the Lithuanian Railway, receive a 10% discount.

Express program

It determines the procedure for calculating and paying money as a purchase of tickets by program participants using plastic cards and non-cash purchase of tickets issued on the official website of the BC.

Note! Such a program must be observed on the website of the BC and the bank.

The Belarusian chygunka is developing the infrastructure of freight transportation in every possible way and offers for transportation:

• Oversized baggage.
• Long loads.
• Heavy loads.

Cargo transportation

All this is included in the special composition of railway transporters, divided into types:

• Articulated - designed for heavy transformers and other bulky goods weighing up to 5000 tons.
• Transport couplings are used when transporting long loads.
• Well - intended for loads weighing up to 120 tons. Such loads have great height or diameter.
• Platform - excellent in use for the transportation of heavy equipment.
• Platforms are used to transport bulky baggage with a total weight of up to 120 tons.

Belarusian Railway transports goods and baggage in accordance with:

• Instructions for the transportation of oversized and heavy cargo on the railways of the CIS member states, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Estonia ДЧ-1835.
• Decree of the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of the Republic of Belarus No. 8 dated January 22, 2018.
• Rules for the carriage of goods.
• Regulations for the transport of dangerous goods by rail.
• Rules for the carriage of liquid cargo in bulk in tank cars and bunker-type cars for the transportation of oil bitumen.
• tariff policy.

Note! The Belarusian railway is being improved and strives to meet all modern requirements. This desire gave her the task of opening the "Electronic Transportation". In such a system, it is proposed to place an order for cargo transportation, as well as Additional services and getting all the necessary information.

The operation is performed directly through the official website, through interaction with employees.

Service classes

Various trains pass by the Belarusian Railway.

One of the newest and most comfortable types is the electric train.

Its advantages include:

• Overcoming a distance of 300 km in 3 hours.
• Modern interior.
• The presence of two classes, on which the cost of a ticket depends.

All cars of the electric train are distinguished by spacious seats for passengers and comfortable seats, the ability to charge the phone and luggage racks. There is a cafeteria on the train.

New train

Fast trains also pass through the territory of the Belarusian chygunak according to the directions schemes:

• Minsk - Moscow "Belarus"
• Polotsk - Moscow "Dvina".

• Branded group of cars Minsk - St. Petersburg as part of fast train No. 52/51 Brest - St. Petersburg

All that is needed is to choose the most suitable option for convenience and pricing policy.

Nutrition

The trains of the Belarusian Chygunka provide a range of both free and paid services.

The most popular service is catering on trains.



Tea on the train

The conductor can prepare and serve coffee, tea, and other non-alcoholic drinks to the passenger free of charge, if they are included in the price of the travel document.

On a paid basis are provided:

• Coffee, tea, other drinks.
• Confectionery.
• Personal hygiene items.

To additional free services can be attributed:

• Linens.
• Board games.
• First aid.
• Seat belts.
• Additional information, including stops at the stations of the Belarusian railway.

The Belarusian railway is considered the most comfortable and clean, and the staff is pleasant and polite.