Belarusian Railway

Belarusian Railway (BCh) (Беларуская чыгунка (БЧ) / Biełaruskaja čyhunka, Белорусская железная дорога) is the national state-owned railway company of Belarus. It operates all of the rail transport network in Belarus. As of 2005, the railway employs 112,173 people.

Overview
The company, formed in 1992 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, is one of the inheritors of the Soviet Railways. It administers 5,512 km of railway with. The railway's most important station is Minsk Terminal, the central station of the capital.

BCh reports to the ministry of transport and as of 2010 was composed of 84 organizations; 46 enterprises, 38 institutions, and 7 factories/plants. The rail network is divided into 6 departments: named after the regions around Minsk, Baranovichi, Brest, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk.

Rolling stock

 * Electric locomotives
 * ChS4T; Co'Co' electric locomotive
 * VL80, BCG-1; twin-unit (Bo'Bo')-(Bo'Bo') locomotives


 * Diesel locomotives
 * M62, TE10, 2TE116, TEP60, TEP70, ChME3; Co'Co' diesel electric locomotives
 * TGK2; two-axle diesel shunter


 * Passenger multiple units
 * DR1; diesel multiple unit
 * ER9, Stadler FLIRT (EPg, EPr, EPm); electric multiple units
 * DP1, DP3, DP6 Pesa; diesel multiple unit for Minsk-Vilnius services.

International sanctions
Belarusian Railway was included in the sanctions lists of Canada in November 2022 and Ukraine in January 2023, respectively. Canada also blacklisted Vladimir Morozov, the head of Belarusian Railway, as later did the European Union, Switzerland, Ukraine and Australia.