Freight

railway station

The TEMIRSERVICE freight railway station was built in partnership with the EBRD. In 2018, the EBRD completed the technical and financial expertise of our Company and provided an investment loan for the construction of the station, which was launched in 2019.

In the course of the construction of the station, we used the latest technologies and best practices, including:

Railway sorting tracks and an improved hump yard.

Modern hardware and software solutions, including a centralized station microprocessor control system and self-diagnostic tools.

Automated FRAUSCHER axle counting system with traffic safety and station capacity monitoring.

Modern digital systems and radio communication systems with mainline and shunting locomotives.

Advanced video surveillance systems installed throughout the station, as well as inside and outside the locomotives.

Centralized locomotive monitoring system with GPS tracking.

Technologies used at the TEMIRSERVICE station are aimed at optimizing transportation processes and ensuring high quality of service, which makes it an important link in the railway infrastructure of the region.

TEMIRSERVICE station has a receiving-departure and classification yards. To control the movement of trains and to organize shunting operations, the “Dnepr” microprocessor centralization of railway switches and signals (MPC) has been introduced at the station, all station yards are equipped with station yard bothway intercommunication, as well as administrative and managerial (operational) communication.

The receiving-departure yard park of the TEMIRSERVICE station is designed for:

reception of trains with local cargo arriving from the Sorokovaya station;

departure of the marshalled trains to the Sorokovaya station. The planned electrification of the receiving tracks of the TEMIRSERVICE station will allow receiving and departure of freight trains with electric traction.

The classification yard has a low-powered non-mechanized hump yard and is designed to perform the following operations:

splitting of trains with local cargo at the hump yard, which arrived for the consignees and railway owners of the industrial park of Astana;

selection and accumulation of local cars to supply them to the freight fronts of enterprises;

removal of cars from the freight fronts to include them in trains for departure to the Sorokovaya station.

TEMIRSERVICE STATION

Development program

The TEMIRSERVICE railway station development program provides for full electrification of the station in 2026, which will optimize and increase its capacity.

In the near future, we plan to increase the production capacity of the TEMIRSERVICE station with the construction of additional tracks, which will make it possible to:

send an additional volume of cars from the Sorokovaya station for short-term or medium-term parking on the new tracks of the station.

increase the speed of supply of cars and the capacity of the Sorokovaya station.

reduce the total amount of СО2 emissions per car due to the optimization of operational processes of the supply of cargo.

create a capacity potential for the TEMIRSERVICE station for handling of cargo expected to be received at the new facilities of Industrial Park No. 2 and other industrial and food enterprises in Astana.

In 2024, the TSA also plans to introduce an automated rolling stock control system at the station. This system is a hardware and software complex that includes equipment for shooting and measuring, as well as software for data analysis, processing and visualization. The system will perform tasks of recognizing car numbers, counting their number, detecting defects, detecting open doors and hatches, classifying types of cars and assessing the degree of oversized cargo.