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Until recently, trains in Tajikistan were dirty, dangerous and unpleasant. However, the cleanliness and level of service has improved somewhat in recent years. The completion of the new Dushanbe-Qurghonteppa-Kulob train line has been a boost to the rail network and there is now talk of a new train line into Kirgyzstan via the Karategin Valley.
Unfortunately travel by train is still torturously slow. The tracks wind their way around the mountains, unlike the roads which go straight over. The train from Dushanbe has to snake south for six hours to Termez (225 Km) before twisting back to the north towards Samarkand and Tashkent.
The mountains also mean that the train lines in the north of the country don't connect to the lines in the south - at least not without a long detour through Uzbekistan.
Click on a city name below to see the timetable of trains which stop at that city. When the timetable pops up, click on any service number (NN) to see the full list of stops, arrival and departure times at each stop and distance between stops for that service.
This line connects Tajikistan to Tashkent and the Ferghana Valley (Kokand, Namangan, Andijan).
All international services from Dushanbe are via Termez.
This line connects to Termez for international services and connections to Dushanbe and north Tajikistan.
Central Asia's Rail Network and the Eurasian Land Bridge (1.7 Mb PDF)
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