Namangan (station) This term has other meanings, see Namangan (meanings). Namangan (Uzbek. Namangan) - railway station of the Uzbekistan railway in the city of Namangan. History The idea of building railway transport in Namangan appeared at the very end of the XIX century, when in 1899, the Samarkand merchant Ya. A. Rekhtzamer, the second guild, appealed to the Turkestan Governor-General with a request for permission to carry out at his own expense the possibility of building a railway line from the Kokand station of the Central Asian Railway to the city of Namangan. Due to the death of Rechtsamer, the idea stalled, although many Russian trading companies sent petitions for the construction of a railway, hoping "... that the road would finally eliminate the heavy overhead costs of double packaging and reloading of goods, their damage during transportation on carts, camels, eliminate inconveniences, reduce the high cost, which places a heavy burden on consumers products of Russian factories and plants". From 1903 to 1908, A. N. Kovalevsky, a railway engineer, a major entrepreneur and co-owner of a number of oil developments, was engaged in the construction of the railway. It was he who in 1908 received permission to organize a joint-stock company of the Kokand-Namangan Road and by October 15, 1910, the entire share capital was contributed and bonds in the amount of 3,799,845 rubles were sold. The construction department, located in Kokand, was staffed by highly qualified track engineers: N. A. Kolobov was appointed manager of the road, and F. F. Krieger was appointed chief engineer. Work began on May 9, 1911 and ended in June 1912, a year ahead of schedule. The government Commission adopted the Kokand-Namangan line, December 21–22, 1912. From January 5, 1913, the road became known as Fergana. In 2016, the station building was dismantled. A new train station is being built in its place, designed to pass about 500 passengers per day. The commissioning of the facility is expected in 2019. References