Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 20
By Fikret Dolukhanov – Trend:
The "Uzbek Railways" JSC company is holding negotiations with the Spanish Talgo company and the South Korean Hyundai company for the purchase of new high-speed trains for the Tashkent-Bukhara-Khiva route, the Uzbek media reported Aug. 20.
At the moment, all the track construction work on the Urgench-Khiva section has been completed, as well as the construction of the Khiva railway station, three hotel complexes and the Khiva Fleet of Locomotives is underway.
The total cost of the project of electrification of Urgench-Khiva railway line is approximately $ 36 million. After its launch, tourists will be able to travel between Tashkent, Bukhara, Samarkand and Khiva on comfortable high-speed trains without any problems.
The modern railway station in Khiva will be able to serve up to 200 people at the same time. Given that it is as close as possible to the historical monument – the city-museum in the open air Ichan-Kala (Itchan-Kala), the project of railway station building was specially designed taking into account its blend with the surrounding architecture.
At the moment, the high-speed railway of Uzbekistan with a length of more than 780 kilometers connects the largest cities of Uzbekistan - Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Karshi, Navoi.
The railway passes through seven regions: Tashkent, Syrdarya, Jizzakh, Samarkand, Kashkadarya, Navoi and Bukhara. The railway line launched on October 8, 2011 is operated by the Afrosiyob electric train, which runs seven days a week. This is the second railway line in the CIS on which the high-speed trains are operated (after the Moscow – St. Petersburg railway line with “Sapsan” electric trains in Russia).
At present, four high-speed trains run on the railway line.
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