Single track

Loop No. 17

budding · planted 2022-10 · tended 2022-10

Loop No. 17 from the cab window of a test run.

Between Uchbulak and Tash-Tal there is a loop with no station, only a number: No. 17. The passenger trains No. 1 and No. 2 cross there every day, one coming from Talas and the other from Nurzhan, at about 11 o'clock. If you are on the platform you can see the two trains stop nose to nose, with the drivers leaning out and speaking in their own language, and then each goes on.

It is my favourite place and I have never been there on foot. See Single track and Train No. 1 and No. 2.