Reading a timetable
evergreen · planted 2025-03 · tended 2025-03
The printed timetable of Irad Temir Jolu has two numbers for each station: arrival and departure. Where they are the same, the train does not stop. Where there is a gap, the gap is the stop. At Aulie-Ata Junction the gap is 22 minutes. At Kyzyl-Adyr it is five. At the loop No. 17 it is "as required".
"As required" is the dispatcher's favourite phrase. It means: it depends on me. See Train No. 1 and No. 2.