Passenger train traffic on the Dushanbe - Tashkent route will resume after a 30-year break. The first trip is scheduled for June 20, the National News Agency of Tajikistan Khovar reported on Monday.
"From June 20, 2022, the passenger train service on the Dushanbe - Tashkent route, which stopped in the early 1990s, will be resumed," the report reads. The train will run once a week on the route with the length of 916 km.
The train will consist of 10 cars: one SV (first-class), four compartment cars, a dining car and four couchette cars. According to the agency, passengers can get from Dushanbe to Tashkent in 21 hours.
Earlier, it was reported that the presidents of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon and Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the talks in Tashkent agreed to form new transit corridors and create a modern logistics infrastructure and increase air, rail and bus transportation. Every day, about 20,000 citizens of the two countries cross the common state border.
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Based on materials from TASS