Single track

Freight at the Nurzhan depot

budding · planted 2024-09 · tended 2024-09

The Nurzhan depot yard under the orange lamps.

Four private sidings leave the Nurzhan depot yard: No. 3 to the refinery, No. 7 to the NAI silos, No. 11 to Nurzhanmash, No. 14 to the Trans-Chuy bonded terminal. The tank wagons for the refinery arrive empty and leave full. The silos take the wheat trains in autumn. At Nurzhanmash the wagons come in with steel and go out with pumps.

At night the yard is orange from the lamps, and the shunting is slow, like a very long breath. See Shunters from China.