Belarusian Railway (BCh) ( () / ''Biełaruskaja čyhunka'', ) is the national state-owned railway company of

Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ...

. It operates all of the rail transport network in Belarus. As of 2005, the railway employs 112,173 people.

Overview

The company, formed in 1992 after the

dissolution of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of ...

, is one of the inheritors of the Soviet Railways. It administers 5,512 km of railway with (). The railway's most important station is Minsk Terminal, the central station of the capital. BCh reports to the

ministry of transport A ministry of transport or transportation is a ministry responsible for transportation within a country. It usually is administered by the ''minister for transport''. The term is also sometimes applied to the departments or other government a ...

and as of 2010 was composed of 84 organizations; 46 enterprises, 38 institutions, and 7 factories/plants. The rail network is divided into 6 departments: named after the regions around

Minsk Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach (Berezina), Svislach and the now subterranean Nyamiha, Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administra ...

, Baranovichi, Brest,

Gomel Gomel (, ) or Homyel (, ) is a city in south-eastern Belarus. It serves as the administrative centre of Gomel Region and Gomel District, though it is administratively separated from the district. As of 2025, it is the List of cities and largest ...

Mogilev Mogilev (; , ), also transliterated as Mahilyow (, ), is a city in eastern Belarus. It is located on the Dnieper, Dnieper River, about from the Belarus–Russia border, border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and from Bryansk Oblast. As of 2024, ...

and Vitebsk.

Rolling stock

;Electric locomotives * ChS4T; Co'Co' electric locomotive * VL80, BCG-1; twin-unit (Bo'Bo')-(Bo'Bo') locomotives ;Diesel locomotives * M62,

TE10 TE10 () is a diesel-electric locomotive from the Soviet Union. The name of this locomotive (ТЭ10) is from ''тепловоз с электрической передачей, тип 10'', which translates to "diesel-electric locomotive type 10 ...

, 2TE116, TEP60, TEP70, ChME3; Co'Co' diesel electric locomotives * TGK2; two-axle diesel shunter ;Passenger multiple units * DR1; diesel multiple unit * ER9, Stadler FLIRT (EP^g, EP^r, EP^m); electric multiple units *DP1, DP3, DP6 Pesa; diesel multiple unit for Minsk-Vilnius services.

Stations

International sanctions

Belarusian Railway was included in the sanctions lists of Canada in November 2022 and Ukraine in January 2023, respectively. Canada also blacklisted Vladimir Morozov, the head of Belarusian Railway, as later did the European Union, Switzerland, Ukraine, Australia and New Zealand.

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External links

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