one of the ridiculous things is train ticket prices there, as government pays literally almost all ticket price. suburban train costs 1000 rubles which is 1/8$ .
There's got to be a faster way to route trains from Mogilev to Brest than going through the capital, unless that route is limited to electrified trains.
One of the pictures published above shows a map of the Belarus network.
There is indeed a shortest way than going through Minsk, but we don't
know the state and characteristics of this line so we can't tell whether or
not this route is also faster...
Also, by going through Minsk, this train also attracts the ridership of all
people wanting to get there. We don't know at all if there is enough
demand for a direct link between Mogilev and Brest to make this train
profitable.
Belarusian Railways is a new format for passenger traffic. Its main attributes will be mobility and environmental friendliness. These two concepts - not only the demands of the times, but also the style of modern life.
So, what is the new format? It is a comprehensive system of passenger transportation services, designed to meet the demand of passengers transport services by using new technology and modern rolling stock, oriented to strengthen transport links
ommercial, regional, inter-regional and city line. In turn, the regional and inter-regional lines provided economy and business class.
Minsk International line will connect the capitals of other countries, commercial lines are designed for passengers on organized by natural or legal persons (travel, rent, special teams). Inter-regional - will provide convenient rail connections between regional centers, as well as the regional centers and capital. City lines - will link Minsk with the nearest suburban zone (Zhdanovichy), and in the future satellite city Zaslaul. Regional - will transport passengers within the territory of the regional center.New passenger format - new colors. Railway workers demonstrated at the conference visual concept of each of the seven lines. They all have a distinctive color scheme and indicated by different flowers, emblems.
The BR uses the Swiss Stadler Flirt here. They are painted in corporate colors "City lines" of the Belarusian Railways- red color and aster as the emblem. Now "City lines" has 6 swiss trains, each with 4 cars. Trains ply the routes:
1.Minsk-Zhdanovichy-Belarus-Minsk
2.Minsk-Kalyadzichy-Rudzensk-Minsk
Belarusian Railways bought 6 new Stadler trains for regional lines
In December, Belarusian Railways signed a contract with a Swiss company Stadler Bussnang AG for delivery in 2013-2014, 6 FLIRT trains for regional lines. The press service of the Belarusian Railways.It is planned that four trains arrive on the Belarusian line in 2013, two more - in 2014.
New trains will differ increased comfort and spaciousness. These trains will consist of five cars. For the convenience of passengers, seats are arranged one behind the other, and the cars will have additional hand luggage and baggage.
Recall, the first contract with Stadler Bussnang AG to supply 10 trains a new generation of Belarusian Railways signed in March 2010. Five of them came to Belarus in 2011, five - in 2012. Currently, the Belarusian Railway ply 6 trains for urban and 4 lines of regional trains for business class.
Trains new format has gained its niche in the travel market. Since the opening of the regular trains urban lines they carried about 2 million people, the regional train lines business class - more than 1 million
Belarus gets set to introduce five-car Flirts
April 29, 2014
BELARUS Railways (BC) will introduce five-car Stadler Flirt EMUs on Minsk - Baranovichi, Minsk - Orsha, and Baranovichi - Brest services on May 1, replacing four-car Flirts which will be transferred to the recently-electfied Minsk - Osipovichi - Bobruysk line.
The five-car Flirts arrived in Belarus in late 2013 and early 2014 and have since undergone testing.
BC is also set to replace its DR1B DMUs on the Minsk - Vilnius line from May 1 with three DP3 EMUs manufactured by Pesa, delivery of which was completed this month. In addition Russian Railways (RZD) has transferred its fleet of 40 Skoda ChS8 locomotives from the Timoshevskaya depot on the North Caucaus Railway to the Vyazma and Bryansk-2 depot in order to serve the Vyazma - Minsk - Brest and Sukhinichi - Bryansk - Kiev lines.
what is a frequency of the airport train and how long does trip takes by train and bus? how long is a bus route? any plans to expend railway till airport?
This is a lightly used airport. There are five round-trips per day.
In the below schedules, the top red circle represents Minsk central station, the next circle is Smolevichi station (suburban Minsk), then the next station is Airport ostanovochnyi punkt which translates to "stop point" - a stop without a stationhouse consisting solely of a platform, as can be seen in the photo above.
The bottom red circle shows time that bus arrives at airport terminal. As you can see, the train takes about 54 minutes and then the bus another 5-10 minutes (giving the passengers a few minutes to connect from train to bus). The most typical of ex-Soviet cities, Minsk does not have much of a highway infrastructure, resulting in congested arterial streets at rush hour. Neverthless, the train's time of travel is not particularly competitive with driving or taking the 300E express bus from central bus terminal (across street from central rail station) or Uruchye metro station or driving. Perhaps during rush hour the train gets to the airport faster than bus/driving.
Train station is 700 meters away from airport terminal. One-way fare: BYR 25000 (USD 2.33). Max speed: 112 kph (70 mph)
In each frame below, the left column shows airport-bound schedule, the right column shows city-bound schedule. Times of connecting domestic railway services and international flights are also shown.
The consensus of the blogs is that this is dumb and reflects poorly on the country. It is not known why the railway was not built all the way to the terminal.
The consensus of the blogs is that this is dumb and reflects poorly on the country. It is not known why the railway was not built all the way to the terminal.
Of course it's not the right solution but I've read they are doing work in phases and in the next phase the train will connect more directly and it is expected to take 30 minutes instead of an hour. I guess this is not the only project in the country and I am sure this is a better solution then not to have anything at all. Let's hope the second phase commences soon.
AFAIK, they needed to reclassify land-use of patch of land near terminal, or something like that, but they hurried so much, that decided not to :facepalm:
There is already a quick bus connection to airport, which hasn't reached its capacity yet.
At the moment, train offers no real advantages over road connection.
BELARUS: President Alexander Lukashenko attended the opening of Stadler’s factory in Fanipol on November 20.
The factory was built on a greenfield site in the town outside Minsk and will be used for the production of Kiss and Flirt trains, as well as trams, for the CIS market.
The total cost of the factory was €73m, with the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development providing loans worth €26m.
In 2007 Stadler AG created a joint venture with the Minsk Region Executive Committee, which included the tram and trolleybus manufacturing facilities of local rolling stock maker Belkommunmash. Stadler subsequently bought out the minority stake to become the sole owner of Stadler Minsk in May 2014
Belarus should improve its railway network with EU's country: Poland and Lithuania. I think if Belarus does that they would become more independent from Russia. Rails such Minsk - Vilnius, Minsk - Warsaw and Minsk - Kiev will turn Belarus economy less dependent on Russia.
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