Tashkent Railway Station

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Tashkent Railway Station

Tashent railway station
Tashent railway station

The Tashkent-Passenger station (also known as Northern, Tashkent-Central) is one of the first railway stations in Uzbekistan, located in its capital. It is the largest railway hub in the country.

The station in the city was built at the end of the 19th century. Thanks to the construction of this line, it was possible to organize communication between Tashkent and Krasnovodsk. A few years later, communication between Tashkent and Orenburg appeared, which, in turn, for the first time connected the European part of Russia and Asia. In the mid-1950s, a new station began operating in the city. In the 1980s, the Tashkent metro station also appeared nearby.

The road from the station starts the communication route from Tashkent to Samarkand with a length of 344 km. It passes through four regions. A high-speed train runs along this line, which travels its route every day.

Flight information is available from the Yandex.Schedule service, and it can also be clarified at the Tashkent railway station information desk by phone (+998 71) 1005 or on the official website of the Uzbekistan Railways.

Today, it is possible to buy train tickets from Tashkent in several ways. In addition to purchasing directly at the station’s ticket office, you can book and pay for a ticket online, which, of course, saves a lot of time and effort. Online ticket sales are available on the official website of the Uzbekistan Railways.

Tashent railway station
Tashent railway station

The largest cities in the country (Samarkand, Tashkent, Bukhara, Karshi, etc.) are now connected by a high-speed railway. The total length of the route is about 780 kilometers. It is served by the branded beauty Afrosiyob, specially developed for these purposes in Spain by the company «Patentes Talgo S.L.». The train got its unusual name from the ancient settlement of Afrosiab, which was located approximately on the territory of the northern tip of present-day Samarkand.

Throughout the day, there are several trains from Tashkent to Samarkand mainly departing in the morning hours and after lunch. The high-speed Afrosiyob train covers the distance in 2 hours and 8 minutes. The rest trains take about 3-4 hours.

There are two trains to Bukhara scheduled daily: at 7:30 and at 18:45. Afrosiyob travels the 600 km route in just under 4 hours, making only a few brief stops along the way.

Information Desk
All questions about the station’s operation, current schedule, discounted tariffs, exchange and return of tickets, luggage transportation, animals, or any other regular and irregular situations can be clarified by the short number in Tashkent — 1005 or by the general phone number of the Tashkent central station’s information desk +998 (71) 299-72-16.

The square in front of the station is connected to other districts of the city by numerous public bus routes. There are several public transport stops (buses and route taxis) around the Northern station.

  • Directly opposite the station near the metro station is the «Tashkent» stop. Here stop routes No. 14, 16, 22, 40, 46, 55, 62, 70.
  • On Taras Shevchenko Street (it is perpendicular to the main avenue on which the station is located) there is also a stop, here you can get on buses No. 12, 16, 26, 37, 81, 127 and minibuses No. 11m, 23m, 30m, 67m, 102m, 152m.
  • If you stand with your back to the station, to the left of it is the «Northern Station» stop, where dozens of routes stop, for example, buses No. 9, 13, 14, 16, 22, 40, 69, 78, minibuses No. 18i, 19i, 30m, 67m, 70m, 98m163m. For many of them, this stop is the final one.

Transport from Tashkent Airport
Tashkent Airport is located within the city limits, only about 5 kilometers separate it from the main railway station. You can get to the railway station without transfers on bus No. 40. You need to pass 8 stops, «Northern Station» is the final stop of this route.