Passenger railway service between Karaganda and Moscow to resume in Dec - Kazakh Ministry of Transport

ASTANA. Nov 6 (Interfax) - Passenger railway service between Karaganda, Kazakhstan and Moscow is scheduled to resume on December 17, Lyazzat Stamgaziyeva, an official representative of the Kazakh Ministry of Transport, told Interfax.

The international express train No. 83/84 on the Karaganda-Moscow route will resume operations twice per week as of this date. Departures are scheduled for Tuesdays and Saturdays from Karaganda and for Tuesdays and Fridays from Moscow, with stops in the large cities of Astana, Kokchetav, Petropavlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Samara, and Penza during the journey.

The train comprises eight railway cars, with five carriages with open-bunk/reserved seating and three carriages with four-bunk closed compartments, Stamgaziyeva specified.

Following a meeting in Uzbekistan of the CIS council for railway transport, Russian Railways said that it is looking into possibly resuming passenger traffic from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to Moscow. Meantime, a train has been operating to Moscow from the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, since September 24.