Established on November 1917. It qas liquidated by the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on May 13, 1936 on the division of the Central Asian: railway into the Tashkent and Ashgabat railways.
Orders and circulars of the People's Commissariat of Railways of the USSR and the Central Administration of Railway Transport; orders, circulars and meeting protocols of the Directorate of the Central Asian Railway; the meeting protocols of food congresses and congresses of deputies of workers, employees and craftsmen of the Central Asian Railway; statements and reports of the heads of services and sections of the Central Asian Railway on their activities, prospects for railway transport, steam locomotive building; reports, acts of commissions and auditors on the survey of the state of work of the Central Asian Railway.