Circum-Baikal Railway
node · earth · Southwestern shore of Lake Baikal, Irkutsk Oblast
The section that closed the last gap in the original Trans-Siberian, running around the southwestern shore of Lake Baikal between Port Baikal and Mysovaya through a near-continuous sequence of tunnels, galleries and retaining walls cut into cliffs that come straight down to the water. Until it opened, trains were carried across the lake on the icebreaking ferries Baikal and Angara, in service from 1900. In the winter of 1903–04, with the Russo-Japanese War beginning and the ferries beaten by the ice, some 45 km of track were laid directly on the frozen surface and wagons hauled across by horses. First trains ran on the shore line in September 1904 and it was brought into permanent operation in October 1905. A later dam and realignment left much of it as a branch, which is why a stretch of the most expensive railway engineering in the empire now carries tourist trains.
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- Trans-Siberian Railwaypart_of
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- Story
- The section that closed the last gap in the original Trans-Siberian, running around the southwestern shore of Lake Baikal between Port Baikal and Mysovaya through a near-continuous sequence of tunnels, galleries and retaining walls cut into cliffs that come straight down to the water. Until it opened, trains were carried across the lake on the icebreaking ferries Baikal and Angara, in service from 1900. In the winter of 1903–04, with the Russo-Japanese War beginning and the ferries beaten by the ice, some 45 km of track were laid directly on the frozen surface and wagons hauled across by horses. First trains ran on the shore line in September 1904 and it was brought into permanent operation in October 1905. A later dam and realignment left much of it as a branch, which is why a stretch of the most expensive railway engineering in the empire now carries tourist trains.
- Knowledge
- Trans-Siberian Railway
- Circum-Baikal Railway
- Connections
- Trans-Siberian Railway
- Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal
- Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal
- First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line
- Vladivostok
- Ruling gradient
- Moscow
- Siberia
- Chinese Eastern Railway
- The main-line steam locomotive
- Chinese Eastern Railway
- Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM)
- Circum-Baikal Railway
- Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins
- Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
- Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal
- Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal
- First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line
- The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
- Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
- Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
- Evidence
- Supports the construction-stage sequence (West Siberian, Central Siberian, South Ussuri, Circum-Baikal and Amur), the 1891 announcement and Vladivostok inauguration, the Baikal ferry arrangement and the settlement motive. V55 verification basis: the collection essay was identified as an authority and its substance encountered in summary; loc.gov could not be fetched in this session.
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