Trans-Siberian Railway one side of the lake to the other until the completion of the Lake Baikal spur along the southern edge of the lake. With the Amur River Line north of the Chinese border being completed in 1916, there was a continuous railway from Petrograd to Vladivostok that remains to this day the world's longest railway line. Electrification of the line, begun in 1929 and completed in 2002, allowed a doubling of train weights to 6,000 tonnes. There were expectations upon electrification that it would increase rail traffic on the line by 40 percent. The additional Chinese Eastern Railway was constructed
Small West Siberian Railway to buffer of and a width of . The trains have the names „Skaska“ (Сказка, "Fairy tale"), „Junost“ (Юность, "Youth"), „Sibirjak“ (Сибиряк, "Sibirian") and „Metschta“ (Мечта, "Dream"). The trains run daily with the exception of Mondays during the season from 1 June to 30 September. Small West Siberian Railway The Small West Siberian Railway or Novosibirsk Children's Railway (Russian: Малая Западно-Сибирская железная дорога, "Malaya Zapadno-Sibirskaya zheleznaya doroga") is a narrow gauge miniature railway in the Russian city Novosibirsk. The first section of the railway line was opened on 4 June 2005 as one of the many children's railways in Russia.