Kyrgyz Railways

[1] However, the 1998 financial crisis drastically reduced spending on the railways.

[1] The current rail network is based on the inheritance from the former Soviet Union and as such has a broad gauge of 1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in).

Also, the line which once linked Bishkek and Osh became untenable once the complex post-Soviet borders in the Fergana Valley became less permeable in the later 1990s: the 'domestic' route had looped around through Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Khujand (Tajikistan) crossing newly internationalized frontiers nine times.

In 2008 it was announced that work will commence on the electrification of the line which connects the capital Bishkek with the Kazakhstan railway network.

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