Lines of Irad: a map in words
evergreen · planted 2025-05 · tended 2025-07
Chu line, 229 km. Kara-Buura line, 145. Talas branch, 100. North line (Tündük linyasy), 129, to the Nurzhan rail border station where the trains are handed over to Kazakhstan and the road to Otar and Almaty. East line, 43, to Boz-Korgon. Sary-Bulak spur, 39. Chatkal siding, 6. All together nearly 690 kilometres.
The Shu–Mointy line north across the steppe is not ours. It has had no trains since 2007, and in places the rails are gone. See Lines of the north.
Linked from: Lines of the north