Kovel – Kamin-Kaschyrskyi railway line
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| Route length: | 51 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1520 mm ( Russian gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kovel – Kamin-Kaschyrskyj railway is a branch line in Ukraine . It runs from Kovel , a railway junction in western Ukraine, in a northerly direction to Kamin-Kaschyrskyj , a small town in the north of Volyn Oblast in Ukraine. The line has a track width of 1520 m, is single-track and is not electrified. Operation is carried out by the Ukrainian Railways , in particular the Lvivska Salisnyzja .
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history
The route was built during the First World War in 1915/1916 by the German military administration. After 1918 it was transferred to the Polish State Railways PKP , the Kowel - Kamień Koszyrski route had the course book number 531 in 1939. At Kamień Koszyrski station there was a connection to the Polish 600-millimeter narrow-gauge network to Janów and Lubieszów. After the Second World War, the line came to the Soviet Union and was switched to broad gauge.
See also
Web links
- 2017 route timetable (Russian)
- On the history of the railway in Volhynia (Ukrainian)
- Photos of the Kovel – Kamin-Kaschyrskyj railway line (Russian)
- Information on the narrow-gauge railways in Polesia (Polish)
- Polish article on the current situation of the route from 2014