On May 7th, 2026, near Tashkent. At the moment when the excavator bucket dropped the first shovel of soil, the Nurafshan Puskent Bekabad Boyowut Yangiyer electrified railway project was officially launched in the Tashkent region.

This is not an ordinary railway line. 111 kilometers, fully electrified, designed to meet the standards of high-speed electric trains - it aims to fill the long-standing weak transportation connection between Tashkent and Sirdalia in one go.

The components behind numbers

The project volume is not small. Excavation of approximately 7.8 million cubic meters of soil is equivalent to filling 3000 standard swimming pools. One traction substation, three railway stations, one stop point, as well as 15 bridges and 14 elevated bridges will be built along the line. Each set of data looks like a hard bone when broken down, but when combined, it forms a brand new skeleton of the regional transportation network.

The launch ceremony has a high standard. The Chief Executive of Tashkent Region, Zuir Mirzaev, and the Chairman of the Uzbekistan Railway Board, Zufar Nazhurayev, personally attended the event, with representatives from relevant departments, engineers, and frontline employees in attendance. The attendees went through the technical parameters and economic indicators of the project one by one, and the core judgment was very clear: this railway is not just laying tracks, it is an economic fuse.

After the fuse is ignited

The significance of building a new railway goes far beyond transportation itself. The Sildaria region has long faced the bottleneck of insufficient transportation accessibility, with high transportation costs for agricultural products and tourism resources being "locked" on the road. Once the new line is opened, mixed passenger and freight trains, high-speed electric trains will arrive directly, logistics time will be compressed, commercial radius will be expanded, and employment and service opportunities in towns along the line will increase synchronously. In the words of the project team, this is a structural factor that accelerates regional economic development.

From a larger chessboard perspective, the line from Nuravshan to Yangiyer is precisely embedded at a key node in the cross regional infrastructure planning of central Uzbekistan. It connects to the Tashkent metropolitan area to the north, radiates to the hinterland of Sildaria to the south, and links industrial towns such as Bekabad in the middle. One line activates two zones.

At the end of the ceremony, according to Uzbekistan's tradition, sacrifices and blessings were held. Participants pray for the well-being of the country and the smooth progress of the project. Subsequently, the machines roared and the formation of earthmoving trucks headed towards the construction site. Keywords: infrastructure, railway transportation

111 kilometers. The countdown has started from the drawings to the rails. The Shigan to Sildaria railway has officially broken ground.Editor/Cheng Liting