Butschatsch – Jarmolynzi railway line
The Bukhach – Yarmolyntsi railway is a branch line in Ukraine . It runs from Butschatsch , a small town in the southern Ternopil Oblast, via Kopytschynzi , a small town southeast of Ternopil and Hussjatyn, to Jarmolynzi , a regional center in the southern Khmelnyzkyj Oblast .
Operation is carried out by the Ukrainian Railways , in particular the Lvivska Salisnyzja (to Hussjatyn) and the Piwdenno-Sachidna Salisnyzja . The entire line is single-track and not electrified.
history
Today's railway line consists of 2 parts:
On the one hand, on the then territory of Austrian Galicia as the later state railway line Stanislau - Husiatyn which was opened on November 15, 1884 (section Stanislau - Buczacz ) and 31 December 1884 (section Buczacz - Husiatyn) by the Galician Transversal Railway, the concession of the line took place on December 28, 1881.
On the other hand, in the eastern part of the line, which then belonged to the Russian Empire , this was built during the First World War in 1916 as a strategic connection to the existing line to Hussiatyn.
After the end of the First World War , the railway line to Husiatyn came under Polish rule and was now served by the Polish State Railways (PKP), the eastern part remained with the newly founded Soviet Union .
Due to the occupation of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union shortly after the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the line came into the possession of the Soviet railways , which immediately began to re-gauge individual lines. The Yarmolynzi connection to Ivano-Frankivsk was even expanded to double-track broad gauge, but this was reversed after Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and the lines of the Eastern Railway were subordinated. The Stanislau - Palahicze - Czortkow - Tarnopol line was given the number 535a, plus the short section Kopyczynce - Husiatyn , which was given the number 535v.
The end of the Second World War brought Eastern Poland to the Soviet Union and under the leadership of the Soviet railways all standard-gauge railways were switched to broad gauge, since then the line has been in broad gauge. Due to the extensive destruction of the track system, however, the section between Ivano-Frankivsk and Butschatsch was not rebuilt.
In 2014 there is no regular train service between Buschatsch and Chortkiv or between Kopytschyntsi and Hussyatyn, but the route from Yarmolyntsi to Hussyatyn is in operation.
literature
- Bernhard Neuner: Bibliography of the Austrian Railways from the Beginnings to 1918 . tape 2 . Walter Drews Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-901949-00-3 .
- Inlender Adolf Władysław (approx. 1854–1920): Illustrated guide to the kk Österr. State railways for the routes ... , Vienna approx. 1895, pp. 76–90.
Web links
- Route documentation Buchach – Chortkiv in pictures (Russian)
- Route documentation Chortkiv – Kopytschynzi in pictures (Russian)
- Route documentation Kopytschynzi – Hussjatyn in pictures (Russian)
- Route documentation Hussjatyn – Jarmolynzi in pictures (Russian)
- History of the railways of the Ternopil Directorate
