Railway Košice – Chop

Košice – Chop
Course book series (ZSSK) :	190
Route length:	98.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	3 kV  =
Top speed:	120 km / h
Legend from Žilina 98.750 Košice 97.070 Košice predmestie 93.902 Barca stavadlo 1 after Miskolc Connection curve from Haniska pri Košiciach 92.02 Krásna nad Hornádom Hornád Torysa Broad gauge line Uzhhorod – Košice (ŠRT; 1520 mm) 84.20 Nižná Myšľa Oľšava 81.99 Vyšná Myšľa zastávka 79.74 Bohdanovce 76.74 Ruskov 69.63 Slanec 64.42 Kalša zastávka Roňava 61.34 Slivník výh. č. 8th to Trebišov 58.70 Kuzmice 52.31 to Lupków 50.81 Michaľany 43.64 Čerhov 36.91 Slovenské Nové Mesto 52.31 from / to Sátoraljaújhely ( 190 ) 33.08 Borša Bodrog 29.19 Streda nad Bodrogom 17.56 Veľký Horeš 10.91 Pribeník 8.82 Dobrá 6.39 Biel 5.30 Čierna nad Tisou zástavka 4.01 Čierna nad Tisou 0.00 271.5 Slovakia / Ukraine by Záhony ( MÁV ) 266.5 Chop ( Ukrzalisnyzja ) to Uzhhorod and Mukacheve

The Košice – Chop railway is a main line in Slovakia and Ukraine . It runs from Košice via Čierna nad Tisou to Tschop . As far as Čierna nad Tisou, the line has a track width of 1,435 millimeters, from the border station Čierna nad Tisou to Chop there is both a standard gauge and a Russian broad gauge line of 1,520 millimeters.

history

Slovenské Nové Mesto railway station (2007)

With the exception of the short section in Košice, which was built in 1860, most of the current line was opened in 1872/1873 as part of the Hungarian Northeast Railway . On January 7, 1872 the line from Sátoraljaújhely / Slovenské Nové Mesto to Michaľany was opened, on August 25, 1872 the line from Tschop to Sátoraljaújhely was opened. The entire connection from Košice to Tschop was completed on October 22, 1873, when the last section between Michaľany and Košice was officially opened.

After the collapse of the Kingdom of Hungary , the entire route came to Czechoslovakia in 1919/1920 under the Treaty of Trianon . It was the only railway connection between Carpathian Ukraine , which belonged to Czechoslovakia and Slovakia (Chop belonged to Slovakia until 1938/1945). Due to the First Vienna Arbitration Award (1938) almost the entire route came back to Hungary , this border revision was reversed after the end of the Second World War . When the border was drawn in 1945, Chop became part of the Soviet Union ( Ukrainian SSR , now Ukraine).

The line was expanded to two tracks from 1951 to 1955 as part of the Trať Družby project ("Route of Friendship") and electrified in 1961/62.

Web links

• Železničná trať / Railway line Čierna nad Tisou – Borša. Retrieved April 5, 2010 (Slovak). 
• Železničná trať / Railway line Borša – Michaľany. Retrieved April 5, 2010 (Slovak). 
• Železničná trať / Railway line Michaľany – Košice. Retrieved April 5, 2010 (Slovak). 
• Železničná trať / Railway line Čop – Čierna nad Tisou (1,435 mm). Retrieved April 5, 2010 (Slovak). 
• Železničná trať / Railway line Čop – Čierna nad Tisou (1,520 mm). Retrieved April 5, 2010 (Slovak). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Dvojkoľajné trate na Slovensku. Retrieved April 5, 2010 (Slovak). 
3. ↑ Elektrifikáciatretí na Slovensku patriacich pod ŽSR. Retrieved April 5, 2010 (Slovak).