In November 2024, the Jibek Joly (Silk Road in Kazakh) tourist train, launched as part of Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's strategy to develop tourism, began operating its ...

In July 1991 the first freight train travelled along the line from China to Kazakhstan's then-capital of Almaty. In 1997 Kazakhstan's national railroad company, Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ ...