Kovel – Brest railway line

Kovel – Brest

Railway wagons in Kovel

Route length:

124 km

		from Sdolbuniw and Sarny
	0	Kovel (Ковель)
		to Warsaw and to Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj
		Turija
	2	Werbka (Вербка)
		after Kamin-Kaschyrskyj
	10.2	Moschtschena (Мощена)
	15.4	Hredky (Гредьки)
	18.3	Schurawlyny (Журавлини)
	21.1	Mysowe (Мизове)
	28.4	Borsowa (Борзова)
	32.1	Wyschwa (Вижва)
	38.7	Tschewel (Чевель)
	43	Krymne (Кримне)
	46.5	Lyudka (Людка)
	49.6	Kraska (Краска)
	56.8	Sabolottja (Заболоття)
	64.6	Ukraine / Belarus
		Freight track
	66.7	Chazislau (Хаціслаў)
	72.1	Melniki (Мельнікі)
	78.6	Malaryta (Маларыта)
	89.5	Pascheschyn (Пажэжын)
	93.1	Ramatowa (Раматова)
	99.6	Sakruzin (Закруцін)
	101.5	Barawaja (Баравая)
	105.4	Dubok (Дубок)
	106.7	Shamchushyna (Жамчужына)
	109.1	Kamennaja (Каменная)
	112.2	Pasjolak Muchawez (Пасёлак Мухавец)
	114.5	Bjarosawy Haj (Бярозавы Гай)
	117.2	Brest-Uschodni (Брэст-Усходні)
		Muchawez
		Brest-Tamashojka railway line
	121.6	Brest-Paleski (Брэст-Палескі)
		from Baranavichy
	124.3	Brest-Zentralny (Брэст-Цэнтральны)
		to Warsaw and Białystok

The Kovel – Brest railway is a main cross-border line in Ukraine and Belarus . It runs from Kowel , a railway junction in western Ukraine, in a north-westerly direction via the border stations Sabolottja and Chazislau to Brest , a railway junction in southwest Belarus near the border with Poland . The line has a track width of 1520 m, is single-track and is not electrified. On the Ukrainian side, operations are carried out by the Ukrainian Railways , in particular the Lvivska Salisnyzja , and on the Belarusian side from Khazislau by the Belaruskaja Tschyhunka (Belarusian Railways).

history

The line was opened in 1873 by the Kiev-Brest Railway . The Kiev-Brest Railway became part of the Russian Southwest Railways in 1882 , and after 1918 the line was transferred to the Polish State Railways PKP . The line was converted to standard gauge, the route Brześć n./BC - Kowel had the course book number 529 in 1939. After the Second World War, the line came to the Soviet Union and was switched back to broad gauge. In 1991 the line then became the property of the Ukrainian railways or . of Belarusian Railways about.