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Bereket Railway Depot (or Bereket RD) ( tk, Bereket demirýol deposy) is a railway depot in Bereket city where locomotives are serviced and maintained. It is one of the oldest and biggest MPDs in
Turkmenistan Turkmenistan ( or ; tk, Türkmenistan / Түркменистан, ) is a country located in Central Asia, bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the sout ...
. The Depot was built in 1889. In its storage area, the Bereket Depot has a relic Russian made class T locomotives ''ТЭ-189'' (built between 1857 and 1915), FD class steam locomotives ''ФД20-2526, ФД20-2494 (ФД20-1441)'' (built between 1931 and 1942), and Russian class E locomotives ''Эр796-88, Эм734-66 (Эм733-96), Эу705-41, Эм725-30, Э-13'' (built between 1912 and 1957). There are also several ''ТЭ1'' class locomotives, whose prototype was the famous US made
ALCO RSD-1 The ALCO RSD-1 was a diesel-electric locomotive built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). This model was a road switcher type rated at and rode on three-axle trucks, having a C-C wheel arrangement. It was often used in much the same m ...
locomotive.


See also

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Bereket District Bereket District ( tk, Bereket etraby) (formerly Gazanjyk District) is a district of Balkan Region in Turkmenistan. The administrative center of the district is the city of Bereket. History Founded in January 1925 as a district of Kazandjik ...
* Bereket Railway Station


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