Lviv – Hrebenne railway line
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 Railway station in Rawa-Ruska
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| Route number : | 69 (Polish part) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 98 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1520/1435 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 70 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Lviv – Hrebenne line is a branch line in Ukraine . It runs from Lviv , the center of western Ukraine, in a northerly direction to Hrebenne , a border village in eastern Poland . The line, with a gauge of 1520 mm (Russian broad gauge; to Rawa-Ruska near the Polish border) or 1435 mm (European standard gauge; from Rawa-Ruska) is single-track, not electrified and the operation is carried out by the Ukrainian Railways , in Especially led the Lvivska Salisnyzja .
The railway line was opened to traffic by the local railway company Eisenbahn Lemberg – Bełżec (Tomaszów) on October 23, 1887; construction work began in 1886.
The railway company was only nationalized under Polish sovereignty in 1932, and the line has been state-owned since then.
On the Polish side, route number 69 now leads to Hrebenne, international traffic from Rawa-Ruska to Warsaw was discontinued in 2005, the rail connections in Rawa-Ruska were dismantled, so that the border route is now heavily overgrown.
See also
Web links
- Lviv-Rava-Ruska timetable from 2014
- Photos of the railway line to Rawa-Ruska
- Route information for the continuing Polish part
literature
- History of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Editing by Hermann Strach, Vienna, Budapest 1908 ff., Multi-volume standard work at the time