First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line
The shore route around the southwestern end of Lake Baikal carries its first trains in September 1904, war having accelerated its completion, and is brought into permanent operation in October 1905. It is the most heavily engineered section of the whole railway — a near-continuous run of tunnels, galleries and retaining walls along cliffs that fall straight into the lake — and it closes the last gap in the original through route.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Circum-Baikal Railway · engineering system · Russia · not located
- Trans-Siberian Railway · route · 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
- Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal · winter 1903–1904
- Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal · 1900
- Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria · 1897-07
- Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins · 1891