[[File:Privet.jpg|thumb|120px|Advertisement of [[Ryazan-Uralsk Railway]], 1913]]

The '''Privolzhskaya Railway''' (Приволжская железная дорога; "Volga Railway") is a subsidiary of the [[Russian Railways]] headquartered in [[Saratov]]. It serves the [[Saratov Oblast|Saratov]], [[Volgograd Oblast|Volgograd]], and [[Astrakhan Oblast|Astrakhan]] regions of [[Russia]]. Its three branches are headquartered in Saratov, [[Volgograd]], and [[Astrakhan]]. The railway route length totals 4236,8 km. The network has 31 146 employees (as of 2009). A short stretch of the railway crosses the territory of [[Kazakhstan]]. It was established in 1953 by the merger of the [[Stalingrad Railway]] and [[Ryazan-Uralsk Railway]] and was recently extended to [[Olya]], a port on the [[Caspian Sea]].

From 1948 to 1960, on the railway steam traction replaced by diesel and electric locomotives. On the road one by one line with the most traffic are transferred to electric traction. By 2008, the main line of the road connecting the [[Kuybyshev Railway|Kuibyshev]] and the [[North Caucasus Railway]] (Syzran - Saratov - Volgograd - Kotelnikovo) all-electric all along.

== External links ==

* {{commonscat-inline|Volga Railroad}}