Uzbekistan Railways is the national railway company of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It owns and manages all infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services in the country, and has a near-monopoly on long-distance train travel in Uzbekistan. It is a vertically integrated state-owned stock company, formed in 1994 to operate railways within Uzbekistan. As of March 2017, the total length of its main railway network is 4,669 km (2,446 km of which is electrified).
rail network carries about 40% of total freight volume in the country, and about 4% of the total land passenger volume. Around 2,350 km of the network is currently electrified, as of 2019.
Uzbekistan Railways has the following 6 regional railway junctions (; ):
The TashkentâÂÂBukhara high-speed rail line started operation in September 2011 after being upgraded.
Uzbek Railways has direct passenger train links to Moscow, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Saratov, Penza and Saint Petersburg (via Kazakhstan). From Almaty connecting trains are provided to Urumchi in China. Also Tajik trains of Dushanbe-Moscow (No: 319), Moscow-Dushanbe (No: 320), Khujand-Saratov (No: 335), Khujand-Atyrau (No: 335), Saratov-Khujand (No: 336), Khujand-Moscow (No: 359), Moscow-Khujand (No: 360), Kanibadam-Bokhtar (No: 389), Bokhtar-Kanibadam (No: 389) and Atyrau-Khujand (No: 692) passes through Uzbekistan.
The Karshi-Termez line, which extends across the border into Afghanistan, is being electrified. In March 2018, Uzbek Railways began a new service, connecting Tashkent with Balykchy. The ChinaâÂÂKyrgyzstanâÂÂUzbekistan railway, which started construction in 2025, aims to build 523 km of new track (50 km of which is in Uzbekistan) connecting Kashgar, China via Kyrgyzstan to Andijan.