Delyatyn – Stepanivka railway line
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 Railway line in Kolomyja at sunset
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The Delyatyn – Stepanivka railway is a branch line in Ukraine . It runs from Delyatyn , a small town in the southern parts of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast via Kolomyja , a small town in the east of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast to Stepanivka , a small town in northern Bukovina near the border with Ternopil Oblast .
The operation is led by the Ukrainian railways , in particular the Lvivska Salisnyzja . The entire line is single-track and not electrified.
history
Today's railway line emerged from the local line Delatyn – Kolomea – Stefanówka , which was granted its concession on April 25, 1898 and opened its line, which was then in Galicia, Austria, on November 18, 1899 with a length of 112.62 kilometers.
The railway project originally planned by the Kolomeaer Lokalbahnen was finally realized by a local railway company due to lack of funds, but around Kolomea the state railway line from Lviv to Chernivtsi was also used.
After the end of the First World War , the majority of the line to the Polish-Romanian border at Horodenka came under Polish rule and was now served by the Polish State Railways (PKP), the short part in Bukowina remained with Greater Romania and was part of their State Railways Căile Ferate Române incorporated. the route connection across the Romanian-Polish border at Jasienów Polny was retained and a corridor traffic between Czortków and Kołomyja was carried out.
Due to the occupation of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union shortly after the start of the Second World War in 1939, the Polish part of the line came into the possession of the Soviet railways , which immediately began to re-gauge individual lines. In 1940, after the annexation of Northern Bukovina, the Romanian section was added, on the line the change of gauge to broad gauge was also started, but this was reversed after the attack of Germany on the Soviet Union in 1941 and the lines of the Eastern Railway were subordinated. The Kolomea - Delatyn route was given the number 534h, the Kolomea - Jasienow Polny route numbered 534k.
The end of the Second World War brought eastern Poland and northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union and, under the leadership of the Soviet railways, all standard-gauge railways were switched to broad gauge, and the line has been in broad gauge ever since.
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 .
Web links
- Route documentation Deljatyn – Kolomyja in pictures (Russian)
- Route documentation Kolomyja – Stefaneschty in pictures (Russian)
