Hlyboka – Berehomet railway line

Hlyboka – Berehomet

Route length:

53 km

		from Chernivtsi
	0	Hlyboka-Bukowinska (Глибока-Буковинська)
		after Suceava
		Freight track
	8 0	Karaptschiw (Карапчів)

	7th	Kupka (Купка)
	11	Verkhni Petrivtsi (Верхні Петрівці)
	11	Verkhni Petrivtsi (Верхні Петрівці)
	13	Petrivtsi (Петрівці)
	15th	Yishivtsi (Їжівці)
		Former connection to the local railway from Czudin to Koszczuja
	15th	Meschyritschtschja (Межиріччя)
		Krasnoyilsk (Красноїльськ)
	12	Roptscha (Ропча)
	19th	Storozhynets (Сторожинець)
		Bilka
	26th	Klynivka (Клинівка)
	32	Komariwzi (Комарівці)
	36	Nowa Schadowa (Нова Жадова)
		Michidra
	39	Stara Schadowa (Стара Жадова)
	44	Nyschnij Lukawzi (Нижній Лукавці)
	47	Verkhniy Lukavtsi (Верхній Лукавці)
	53	Berehomet (Берегомет)
		former forest railway Berehomet

The Hlyboka – Berehomet railway is a branch line in Ukraine . The single-track and non-electrified line runs through the Bukovina in western Ukraine and is served by the Ukrainian railways , especially the Lvivska Salisnyzja .

View of the Berehomet station building

history

The railway line was together with the branch line Karapcziu-Czudin (today railway Karaptschiw-Tschudej) on 30 November 1886. The Bukovina Lokalbahnen opened, the management of the railway was until July 1, 1889 in Lviv Czernowitz-Jassy Railway , with On this day it was transferred to the Austrian State Railways .

Following the local railway, the Berhometh am Sereth – Meżybrody – Lopuszna siding was also opened by the Bukowinaer Lokalbahnen on November 15, 1909 with a route length of 14.621 km in standard gauge; even before that, a 9.2 km long standard-gauge siding to the steam saw had been running from 1886 in Meżybrody there was also passenger transport in the summer. After the steam saw was discontinued, the line was extended by 5.9 kilometers to Lopuszna in 1909, as already mentioned, in order to gain new customers . However, passenger traffic was discontinued in 1913 due to unprofitability, during the First World War parts of the railway were dismantled by Russian troops in 1916, but rebuilt after the war and the line was then operated as far as the Romanian village called Lăpuşna. During the Second World War , the facilities were finally dismantled and the road through the valley expanded.

After the end of the First World War, the Bukovina and thus also the railway came to Romania and was taken over by the Romanian State Railways and continued to operate. During the Second World War, North Bukovina was briefly annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, but came back into Romanian possession after Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union and the reconquest of North Bukovina by Romanian troops in the summer of 1941 to 1944. After the end of the Second World War, the northern Bukovina was finally connected to the Soviet Union and the railway line was switched to broad gauge (1520 mm), but the single track was retained.

In 1951/53 years, following the end of the line in Berehomet, a large, narrow-gauge forest railway network was built south of the end of the line in Berehomet to transport the wood for processing in the newly founded woodworks Berehomet (Forest Railway Berehomet, 61 kilometers in length in 1960), but this was discontinued in 1965 and the Track systems completely dismantled by 1970 and replaced by forest roads.

business

On the route to Berehomet a pair of trains ran daily from Chernivtsi until the beginning of 2009, after which the route was shortened to the route between Hlyboka and Storoschynez . The route between Karaptschiw and Tschudej / Meschyritschtschja has not been served by passenger traffic for a long time, only goods traffic to Krasnojilsk (Красноїльский ДОК / Krasnojilskyj DOK) takes place.

Web links

Timetable Chernivtsi-Storozhynets (Ukrainian)

literature

EA number: The local railways in Galicia and Bukovina . tape 2 . Lehmann & Wentzel publishing bookstore, Vienna 1908.
Wolfram Wendelin: Carpathian Steam - Narrow Gauge Railways in Northern Bukovina . tape 2 . Self-published by W. Wendelin, Mautern 2003.