For many residents of Belarus, rail transport is one of the most comfortable, reliable and affordable travel options. The history of the Belarusian Railway began more than 150 years ago - in 1862, when train traffic was opened on the Grodno-Porechye section.
Today BZD occupies a leading position in the national transport services market. Every year, railway transport in Belarus transports more than 140 million tons of cargo and 90 million passengers, providing over 60% of the country's total freight turnover and 30% of passenger turnover.
Structure of the Belarusian Railway
The Belarusian Railway includes 29 organizations, each of which has the status of a legal entity; 7 separate structural divisions (branches); as well as 3 representative offices abroad - in Russia, Kazakhstan and Poland. In total, over 79,000 people work at the Belarusian Railways. Among them are representatives of about 500 professions. Railway workers honor their traditions - about 400 labor dynasties work on the railway.
The Belarusian Railway has 572 passenger stopping points and 320 passenger stations, 19 large stations, including 4 extra-curricular ones. On average, more than 200 thousand people are transported by rail per day.
The organization of cargo transportation is provided by 370 stations: 9 of them are sorting stations and 27 are cargo stations. The average daily loading volume exceeds 200,000 tons.
Passenger Transportation
« Belarusian Chygunka" is a world-famous brand. Today, passenger rail service connects Belarus with Paris, Nice, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Bucharest, Vienna, as well as the capitals and administrative centers of Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, and Kazakhstan.
In communication with the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Kazakhstan, up to 34 pairs of trains of permanent circulation of the Belarusian Railways run. Including the Belarusian Railways, it forms 6 international branded trains, of which 5 are in communication with the Russian Federation and 1 with the capital of Ukraine.
In recent years, the passenger rail transportation system in Belarus has changed significantly. Today, passenger transportation by public rail transport is carried out in the following types of communications:
- urban (city lines);
- regional (regional lines);
- interregional (interregional lines);
- international (international lines);
- commercial (commercial lines).
City lines represent the transportation of passengers within the city of Minsk, the regional center and beyond, but not further than stations (stopping points) located in satellite cities. Today, modern 4-car electric trains on city lines connect Minsk with three satellite cities: Zaslavl, Rudensky and Smolevichi.
Are in constant demand among passengers regional business class trains. On November 19, 2011, regular service was opened on the Minsk-Baranovichi-Minsk and Baranovichi-Brest-Baranovichi routes, and a month and a half later, business class regional trains began running on the Minsk-Orsha-Minsk route. The work carried out to modernize the infrastructure and electrify the Osipovichi-Bobruisk section made it possible, starting from April 6, 2013, to carry out transportation by regional business class trains between Minsk and Bobruisk.
Since May 2013, new train routes of regional business class lines have been introduced on the sections Orsha-Krichev-Kommunary, Kommunary-Mogilev; in September 2013 - on the Minsk-Zhlobin section; in 2014 - on the Minsk-Molodechno section.
Regional economy lines provide transport services to the segment of passengers not covered by business class lines, and are the most popular type of transportation.
Interregional lines represent the transportation of passengers between Minsk and regional centers, as well as between the regional centers of the republic themselves. Depending on the speed of delivery to the destination and the number of stops along the route, interregional lines are divided into business and economy class.
The movement of business class interregional lines is carried out on routes connecting the capital with Brest, Gomel and Vitebsk.
International lines- transportation between the Republic of Belarus and other countries. They provide passenger service between the city of Minsk, regional centers of the republic and capitals, as well as individual regions of other states.
The Belarusian Railway pays great attention to improving the quality of passenger service and updating rolling stock. As part of the State Program for the Development of Railway Transport of the Republic of Belarus for 2011-2015, the Belarusian Railways acquired 7 passenger diesel locomotives; 16 electric trains produced by the Swiss company Stadler Bussnang AG; 9 diesel trains of various compositions developed by the Polish company PESA Bydgoszсz JSC.
Procedure for purchasing travel documents
Ticket sales on the Belarusian Railway are fully automated and carried out through the Express-3 automated control system.
To sell travel documents for trains of regional economy class lines and city lines using bank payment cards, self-service payment and reference terminals have been installed.
In February 2011, a system for selling travel documents of the Belarusian Railway on the website was put into operation www.poezd.rw.by.
Electronic registration has been introduced when purchasing tickets via the Internet, which allows the passenger to travel on the train in accordance with the order paid via the Internet without issuing a travel document at the ticket office.
Advantages of transit
The favorable geopolitical location of the Belarusian Railway at the crossroads of the II and IX pan-European transport corridors, at the junction of the 1435 mm and 1520 mm gauges, determines its role as the most important connecting link between the countries of Europe and Asia. Today, the priority activity of the Belarusian Railways is the development of transit transportation. The share of transit in the total volume of freight traffic along the Belarusian highway is about 30%.
A number of stable railway routes for transit freight flows have been formed in Belarus. First of all, this is the transportation of goods to the ports of Latvia along the Zaolsha-Bigosovo route, as well as in communication with the Kaliningrad region and Lithuania. Transportation to and from the European Union countries is important within the framework of the Pan-European Transport Corridor No. II, as well as between the countries of the Baltic and Black Seas within the framework of the Pan-European Transport Corridor No. IX.
The transfer of cargo to the Belarusian Railway in the East-West-East connection is carried out at three border crossings: Brest-Terespol, Bruzgi-Kuznitsa Bialystotskaya and Svisloch-Siemyanuvka. The main capacities of the transshipment and warehouse infrastructure are concentrated on the border with Poland; there is significant potential for organizing the transshipment of bulk cargo. The cargo terminals provide a full range of services for the processing and storage of cargo of various types.
The Belarusian Railway is ready to provide reliable transport links between China and European countries, to become the optimal transport and logistics link in the implementation of large-scale projects in the field of economics and transport logistics.
Over the past years, the number of regular freight container trains running between China and Western Europe has been steadily growing. Today the following trains regularly run on the Belarusian Railway:
- China - Poland (Chengdu-Lodz);
- China - Germany (Chengzhou - Hamburg);
- "New Silk Road" China - Germany (Chongqing-Duisburg);
- "BMW" Germany - China (Leipzig - Shenyang);
- Ford Germany - China (Duisburg - Chongqing);
- "Saule" Lithuania - China;
- China - Germany (Wuhan - Hamburg);
- China - Spain (Yiwu - Madrid).
Infrastructure modernization
The strategic goal of the Belarusian Railway is to modernize its infrastructure. One of the most important projects in this area is the electrification of railway lines.
Today, railway lines within the II Pan-European Transport Corridor are fully electrified.
A large-scale investment project is being implemented to electrify the Gomel-Zhlobin-Osipovichi and Zhlobin-Kalinkovichi sections of the IX Pan-European Transport Corridor. In September 2013, the first stage of this project was implemented - the Zhlobin-Osipovichi section was opened.
After completion of the electrification of the Zhlobin-Gomel section, the operational length of the electrified sections of the Belarusian Railway will be 1091.2 km or 19.5% of the total length of the highway.
In September 2015, the Belarusian Railway began electrification of the Molodechno-Gudogai-state border section.
Much attention is paid to the development of freight infrastructure. In particular, in 2015, the Belarusian Railways completed the modernization of the Kolyadichi City Freight Station, which is part of the Minsk Transport and Logistics Center, as a result of which its storage and cargo processing capacity was significantly increased. Today, the Kolyadichi station is the most important link in the organization of export-import freight transportation on the Belarusian Railway, including container transportation. At the Kolyadichi station, cargo is processed and transshipped to the regions of Belarus, as well as to the CIS countries, the Baltics and abroad using the capabilities of rail and road transport.
Cooperation with foreign countries
The Belarusian Railway actively cooperates with the railway administrations of the CIS countries, the Baltic countries, the European Union and far abroad, and also participates in the activities of such international transport organizations as:
- Commonwealth Rail Transport Council;
- Organization of cooperation between railways;
- International Union of Railways;
- Coordination conference on planning and implementation of transportation in international passenger traffic
- International Association “Coordination Council for Trans-Siberian Transportation”.
Representative offices of the Belarusian Railway abroad:
- In Russian federation
Russia, 125047, Moscow, pl. Tverskoy Zastava, 5a, office 219,
Tel./fax (+7 499) 262 94 27,
[email protected]
- in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, 010000, Astana, st. D. Kunaeva, 6,
Tel. (+7 7172) 60 04 99, fax (+7 7172) 60 04 98,
[email protected]
- in the Republic of Poland
Republic of Poland, PL 00-681 Warsaw, ul. Hoza 63/67,
Phone: tel./fax (+48 22) 47 44 080, tel. (+48 22) 47 44 822
[email protected]
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08-12.12.2017 2. Register on the site by entering necessary user information by the system. 3. Confirm your registration details by clicking on the link in the letter sent to your email address. 4. Log in. 5. Familiarize yourself with the Rules and features of placing an order, paying for it, issuing and re-issuing a travel document (ticket), returning an unused travel document (ticket) ordered via the Internet. 6. Confirm that got acquainted with the rules and features of ordering. 7. Select the route, travel date, number of tickets. 8. Choose the train that suits you best. 9. Select the carriage number and seat. 10.Enter passenger information. 11.Check your order. 12.Confirm the order and select the payment system. Don't forget to check the "Perform electronic train registration" checkbox. You can pay using:
13.Upon successful payment of your order, an email with a 14-digit order number will be sent to your email address., by which you can obtain travel documents (tickets) at the ticket office of the Belarusian Railway. To avoid misunderstandings, track the status of your order and check the 14-digit order number in the “Personal Account” section. The management of the Belarusian Railways reports: “A passenger who has used the electronic check-in service must present to the carriage conductor an identification document, the details of which are indicated in the electronic travel document, and when traveling from Vilnius, an order form printed on paper.” But to avoid misunderstanding, it is advisableprint out the order form or be sure to remember the order number. Electronic registration is performed at any other time in your personal account, but no later than 1 hour before the train departs from the initial station, simultaneously for all passengers specified in the order. It is imperative to check for the presence of the electronic registration sign in the “personal account” section. If there is no electronic registration mark, you will need to issue a travel document at the ticket office. 14. If you have any questions, you can watch the video of the Belarusian Railway "Video demonstration of purchasing tickets with electronic registration." Attention! You cannot reissue or return a travel document on the website http://poezd.rw.by. The return of an unused electronic travel document with electronic registration is made only after it is issued on a strict reporting form at least one hour before the train departs from the starting station of the train route at the ticket office of the Belarusian Railways on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. To issue a ticket (if you need to return it), you must present your order number and identification document to the box office. Any citizen can obtain a travel document using his/her identity document. To return and issue a travel document, you can contact any Belarusian Railways ticket office, equipped with the Express system, regardless of which route the travel document was purchased from. Refunds for unused travel documents issued via the Internet, at a ticket office equipped with a POS terminal, carried out only to a bank payment card. Note: The reasons for refusal of payment may be the following: 1. There are not enough funds on the card. |
Gomel is connected by long-distance railway routes with many cities in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. The city has the Gomel-Passenger station. The station belongs to the Belarusian Railway. The Gomel branch of the Belarusian Railways is located at the most important strategic crossroads that connects the eastern routes with the west. The station also includes two platforms - Gomel odd and Gomel even. The suburban station was built as a separate building. The boarding platforms and the station are connected by an underground passage - a tunnel. The last reconstruction was carried out in 2003. The station has seven tracks and four platforms. The trains are operated by the Belaruskaya Chygunka company, which compiles the timetable. Tickets for long-distance trains are sold at terminal equipment. The station has introduced an electronic check-in service for international trains.
International trains connect the city directly with Moscow and St. Petersburg and Russian cities in the popular southern direction: Anapa, Adler (via Voronezh), Novorossiysk, Mineralnye Vody, Saratov. The capital of Russia can be reached from here via Bryansk and Smolensk by branded trains. The branded train "SOZH" serves the direction Gomel - Mogilev - Moscow (including trailer groups Soligorsk - Moscow). The station is located on the line connecting the capital of Ukraine and Belarus. From here you can get to the southern Ukrainian Simferopol, Evpatoria, Kherson, Feodosia and Odessa, as well as Mariupol, Chernigov, Shchors, Dnepropetrovsk. Direct carriages go to Adler (via Kharkov), Murmansk, Kazakh Karaganda, Arkhangelsk, and the capital of Bulgaria - Sofia. The Moscow-Brest trailer group of cars serves routes to Nice and Paris.
Long-distance trains run to Minsk, Polotsk (via Vitebsk, Mogilev), Baranovichi, Brest, Svetlogorsk, Grodno. Suburban railway communication occurs within the Gomel region in five directions.
Towards Kalinkovichi you can get to Rechitsa, Yelsk, Kalinkovichi, Mulyarovka, Vasilevichi, Khoiniki. There is a circular commuter route to Zhlobin. Express trains go to Mogilev and Svetlogorsk. In the direction of Terekhovka, commuter trains go to Krugovets and Kutok. Several pairs of daily commuter trains go to Kravtsovka. There is one diesel train in the Novozybkovsky direction on weekends and several daily pairs to Dobrush.
Information on train and train schedules at Gomel station:
The schedule of trains and electric trains at the Gomel station today includes 94 long-distance trains, commuter trains and electric trains (including diesel engines) - 80, 66 of them passing and 108 starting or ending their journey in this locality. Most trains arrive in the morning. The first, according to the schedule, departs at 00:04 in the direction of the Minsk-Pass station, and the last arrives at 23:52. The average parking time on the platform is 0:16.
Some trains passing through Gomel station do not run every day (they have a special schedule).
The train and train schedule for the Gomel station presented on this page takes into account seasonal changes, that is, winter and summer schedule options are always available.
Tickets for trains and commuter trains at Gomel station can be purchased online or at the ticket office.
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 legal entity status, as well as three representative offices.
The Office of the Belarusian Railway is considered to be the apparatus of the warhead. BC is also connected with the railways of some countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russian Federation, Ukraine).
Contact information of the Belarusian Railway:
- Address: Minsk city st. Lenin 17.
- Phone number: +375 17 225-63-10 (Inquiry).
- Fax: +375 17 227-56-48.
- Official website www.rw.by.
- Opening hours: the help desk is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Belorusskaya Railway
The railway provides moving services not only to any point in the country, but also in an international format.
Belarusian cast iron: official website of the company
The website contains an online train schedule for the Belarusian Railway:
Helpful information: Belarusian Chygunka suggests visiting the website, which is quite modern and easy to use. Here you will find all the necessary information. The site also has a line that makes it easier to find information, and a personal account for the Belarusian Chygunka.
Moreover, the site is constantly updated, so it is convenient to follow railway news and find out innovations, changes in train service 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 purchasing Belarusian railway tickets at the link:
Discounts on 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 purchasing compartment and SV cars.
This offer includes:
- 20% discount on the total fare, subject to sale within the period from 60 to 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 train departure.
- 0% discount on ticket purchases from 20 to 11 days before train departure.
- When traveling in CB class carriages, as well as compartment carriages of Belarusian Railways trains on some routes, a discount rate of 10% of the total cost is also applied when purchasing a travel document in round trip directions.
- 5% surcharge when selling a ticket for 10 days or more.
When purchasing a ticket for a reserved seat category of a carriage, there is a 10% discount on side seats.
Note! The discount is valid when purchasing tickets at the ticket office at the railway station.
When purchasing tickets for a group to 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 for a group of adults (starting from 25 persons).
Discounts on travel between Belarus and Lithuania
Passengers purchasing a ticket on the Minsk-Vilnius route are given a 10% discount upon presentation of travel documents at the Lithuanian Railway ticket office.
Express program
It determines the procedure for calculating and paying money for the 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 monitored on the website of the BC and the bank.
The Belarusian Chygunka is developing the freight transportation infrastructure in every possible way and offers for transportation:
- Large luggage.
- Long cargo.
- Heavy loads.
Freight transportation
All this is included in the special composition of railway transporters, divided into types:
- Articulated - designed for heavy transformers and other large loads 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 a large height or diameter.
- Flatbeds are ideal for transporting heavy equipment.
- Platform ones are used for transporting large luggage with a total weight of up to 120 tons.
Belarusian Railways carries out transportation of goods and luggage 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 DC-1835.
- Resolution 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.
- Standards for the transportation of dangerous goods by rail.
- Rules for the transportation of liquid cargo in bulk in tank cars and bunker 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 set her the task of opening Electronic Transportation. In such a system it is proposed to place an order for cargo transportation, as well as additional services and obtain all the necessary information.
The operation is carried out directly through the official website, through interaction with employees.
Classes of service
Various trains travel along the Belarusian Railway.
One of the new and most comfortable types is the electric train.
Its advantages include:
- Covering a distance of 300 km in 3 hours.
- Modern interior.
- The presence of two classes, on which the cost of the ticket depends.
All electric train cars are distinguished by spacious seats for passengers and comfortable seats, the ability to charge a phone and luggage racks. There is a buffet on the train premises.
New train
Fast trains also pass through the territory of the Belarusian Chygunaks according to the following routes:
- Minsk – Moscow “Belarus”
- Polotsk - Moscow "Dvina".
- Branded group of cars Minsk - St. Petersburg as part of fast train No. 52/51 Brest - St. Petersburg
- Coffee, tea, other drinks.
- Confectionery.
- Personal hygiene items.
- Bed sheets.
- Board games.
- First aid.
- Seat belts.
- Additional information including stops at Belarusian railway stations.
All you need to do is choose the most suitable option in terms of convenience and pricing.
Nutrition
The Belorusskaya Chygunka trains provide a range of both free and paid services.
The most popular service is meals on trains.
Tea on the train
The conductor can prepare and serve the passenger coffee, tea, and other drinks that do not contain alcohol free of charge, if they are included in the cost of the travel document.
The following are available for a fee:
Additional free services include:
The Belarusian railway is considered the most comfortable and clean, and the service staff is pleasant and polite.
If email service is available. registration for trains running between Russia and Latvia, Russia and Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, registration of boarding passes at ticket offices and self-service terminals is not carried out less than 1 hour before the train departs from the initial station of the route.
Issuance of cash-free electronic tickets for the travel of children under 5 years of age without occupying a separate seat, accompanied by adults, from stations located on the territory of Ukraine, not produced on the site. ATTENTION! From March 1, 2015, a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation and a birth certificate are no longer valid for entry, transit, stay and movement within the territory of Ukraine; a foreign passport is required.
If the checkpoint has not been completed or is not possible, then you must obtain a boarding pass on a form at ticket offices or self-service terminals of Russian Railways JSC. ONLY in the Russian Federation.
Dear passengers! Before traveling on an international route, we ask you to carefully study the passport, administrative (including visa) and customs rules both for yourself and for your hand luggage and baggage. The carrier does not have the right to control compliance with these rules and is not responsible for failure to comply with these rules by passengers. For detailed information on the procedure for crossing the borders of the Russian Federation and foreign countries, we recommend that you contact the migration, border or customs authorities of the country of destination and each of the countries of passage located along the train route.
The choice of seats on trains on the Finland – Russia route is temporarily unavailable when issuing an electronic ticket from Finland.
If you don’t see any trains, uncheck “Only with tickets” and click the “Schedule” button.
To see the cost of a trip, you must select one of the proposed train options, then specify the carriage and seat and enter the passenger’s personal data. After this, the ticket price and other additional data will be displayed.
Purchasing electronic tickets for commuter trains without specifying seats is currently only possible for trains following the routes of the Yaroslavl direction: Moscow - Pushkino - Bolshevo and the Sochi region: Sochi - Rosa Khutor - Tuapse - Imereti resort - Sochi Airport - Lazarevskaya.
- from populated areas of Crimea from 4 to 24 hours;
- to populated areas of Crimea from 30 minutes to 24 hours.
“Single tickets” to Crimea and back are issued at the next transfer time from train to bus:
- from populated areas of Crimea from 4 to 24 hours;
- to populated areas of Crimea from 30 minutes to 24 hours.
Trains marked with the "Excellent payment" icon have a deferred payment service.
If a price range is indicated for the selected carriage, then the cost varies depending on the type of seat (upper side - upper - lower), and for Lux and SV carriages of the Strizh train - depending on the number of passengers in the compartment (1 or 2).
The fare on Sapsan trains, on Lastochka trains numbered 700 by the DOSS carrier (Russian Railways OJSC), as well as on trains with the "DC" badge, changes automatically depending on demand and the date of departure and is not a public offer.
Information on the application of special tariffs (Senior, Junior, road map).
Before issuing travel documents, at the stage of filling out the data, make sure that you have selected the required tariff plan!
At the "Passenger details and payment" step, a seat is reserved and the actual fare is displayed.