Baikal-Amur Mainline

Ooaj Travel Guide, tourism, hotel reservation, residence, plane, cheap pension for you holidays in baikal-amur mainline

Free Travel guide Ooaj.com A free travel guide for holidays. Hotels in baikal-amur mainline, Bed and Breakfast!

Baikal-Amur Mainline, BAM (Russian: ???????-???????? ??????????, ???).

Second, after Trans-Siberian Railway line that crosses Russia West to East. Splits from Trans-Siberian Railway at Taishet, some 700 km West of Baikal lake, and pass the Baikal from the North at Severobaikalsk. Then go parallel to Trans-Siberian Railway all the way to Pacific Ocean. You can expect great landscapes, admirable views on Baikal lake and a lot of high bridges and tunnels.

Railway was build between 1930 and 1984 and on the most of its length is single track. It is not fully electrfied too. BAM was huge Soviet project, and workers from all parts of Soviet Union were brought to construct it. While travelling on the train pay attention to station buildings. Often they symbolize (look, architecture) the region where workers that build the section came from. Many of these workers married and staied there, so you can find settlers from distant parts of former Soviet Union along the line. In ??? there where rumor about construction of second track and another wave of workers came seeking work, and remained. Construction didn't start.

Sometimes train stops at turnouts in the middle of nothing to let the train from other direction pass. There are a few passenger trains going from Moscow all the way to Pacific, many local trains, the main "traffic" are wood transports from Siberia forests.

See also

• See pratical informations collected in Trans-Siberian Railway article
• http://bam.railways.ru/eng/
• Timetables (http://www.timetable.tsi.ru/indexrg.php?lang=eng&w=1280&h=1024) (you may need to enter names in cyrylic)

Biggest country to travel: Biggest cities to travel: Islands in the top travel 40: World Travel guide Random travel link: Argentina Bangladesh South Korea Pakistan Sydney in Australia Moscow in Russia Tokyo in Japan Sao Paulo in Brazil Hawaii Santorini Galapagos_Islands Kauai Caribbean Sierra_Leone Howland_Island Algeria Estonia Jamaica Kunming in China Travel in Bangkok Romania Scotland Aix en Provence

• Url Rewriting, optimisation, referencement professionnel: Atuvu Referencement
• Cours 2 langues, cours d'anglais tous niveaux Cours 2 Langues
• Photographe aix en provence Daniel Weiss
• Ooaj Travel Guide Home Page