Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal
With the Circum-Baikal shore line unfinished, the icebreaking ferries Baikal and Angara begin carrying trains across the lake, a crossing of roughly 45 miles. For five years the longest railway on Earth has a hole in it that is filled by a ship — a reminder that a "completed" railway is a claim about continuity of service, not about continuity of rail.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Circum-Baikal Railway · engineering system · Russia · not located
- Trans-Siberian Railway · route · Russia · not located
- Siberia · region · Russia · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Trans-Siberian Railroad — Meeting of Frontiers
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.
Library of Congress · Partly verified
https://www.loc.gov/collections/meeting-of-frontiers/articles-and-essays/development/trans-siberian-railroad
Recorded on 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
Related
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- Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network · 2018-08-01
- Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed · 2002
- The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific · 1916
- First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line · 1904-09
- Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal · winter 1903–1904
- Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria · 1897-07
- Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins · 1891