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Country profileKazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan - country map
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan & Tajikistan: national rail network map
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Pavlodar Tramway
First line opened October 18 1965; network of seven regular routes, plus 11 part-time routes. Pavlodar is served by Kazakhstan’s largest tram network. Five radial routes link to a central figure-of-eight, together with a short branch serving the main station. Address637000 PavlodarKazakhstanPhone+7 3182 771316Emailmah_g@mail.ruWebsitewww.pavlodar-tramway.narod.ru Network data Gauge1524 mmLength86 ...
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Öskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk) Tramway
First line opened November 6 1959; four service routes. Services were suspended on March 12 2018 for two months due to bankruptcy of former operator Takhami Put. It was bought by regional administration owned Eptic on March 20 2018, which deployed 13 ex-Almaty trams to restart operations. AddressUl Ushanova ...
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Temirtau Tramway - network shut
Opened September 5 1959; closed February 1 2023. The network expanded reaching a peak of five routes, but closures since the 1990s left just a single route with 19 stops remaining. This was operated by the Ispet Karmet steel group, later ArcelorMittal. The cost of rehabiliation was deemed prohibitive, causing ...
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Ministry of Industry & Infrastructure Development, Kazakhstan
The minister’s responsibilities extend to all modes of transport and communications. The former Ministry of Transport & Communications was absorbed into the Ministry of Investment & Development in 2014, and subsequently reorganised in 2018 to create the current ministry after transfer of some functions. AddressKabanbai batyr Av 32/1010000 AstanaKazakhstanPhone+7 7172 ...
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Astana Light Metro
Work began on the 1520 mm gauge north-south route on July 4 2011 (41·8 km, 27 stops), but was cancelled in 2014. In 2015 an agreement was signed with Chinese contractors, with construction restarting in 2017 but stopping again in 2019 with the city authority again putting the project on ...
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Almaty Tramway
Opened 1937, but all services suspended in 2015. The network grew to operate 10 routes by the 1990s but was cut back to just two street-running routes by 2010, with these suspended on October 31 2015. In October 2018 a northeast-southwest light rail route was proposed (22·7 km, 36 stops) ...