Teresva – Velykyi Bychkiv railway line
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| Route length: | 26 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1520 mm ( Russian gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 25 kV 50 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Teresva – Velykyj Bychkiv railway is a branch line in Ukraine . It runs in the valley of the Tisza parallel to the river from Teresva via Solotvyno to Velykyj Bychkiv . The single-track line is wide-gauge (1,520 mm). The operation is led by the Ukrainian railways , in particular the Lvivska Salisnyzja .
history
The Carpathian Ukraine , which was newly formed after the end of the First World War and was connected to Czechoslovakia , had to manage 2 short feeder lines in this remote part of the republic, each of which only came from the main railway line now in Romania (see the Debrecen – Sighetu Marmației railway line ) Bridge over the Tisza could be served:
- Railway connection to the salt mines in Slatinské Doly (course book number 331), opened as a narrow-gauge railway on June 15, 1880 under the management of the Máramaros Salt Railways, changed gauge and reopened in January 1891
- Railway connection to the Clotilde soda factory in Veliký Bočkov (course book number 332) and to the forest railways to Veliký Plajuk and Kobylecká Polana / Ščerbilovo / Železarny.
As a result of the Hungarian occupation of the southern part of Carpathian Ukraine as a result of the First Vienna Arbitration , the salt deposits in Slatinské Doly (now Aknaszlatina again in Hungarian ) came into their possession, but the tense situation between Hungary and Romania made it impossible to transport it over the route in Romania and between 1939 and 1940 a new line was built between Taracköz and Aknaszlatina; the Hungarian Railways took over after the opening on February 15, 1940 . The route from Romania over the Tisza Bridge was finally stopped in 1944 after German troops blew up the bridge on their retreat.
The end of the Second World War brought with it the annexation of Carpathian Ukraine to the Soviet Union and under the leadership of the Soviet railways all standard-gauge railways were switched to broad gauge, and the Péage lines on Romanian territory were also given broad-gauge track. The freight station in Velykyj Bychkiv continued to be operated on the Romanian route, but when the border bridge over the Tisza was damaged in 1970, it was decided to extend the route from Solotvyno to Velykyj Bychkiv in order to be independent of the Romanian network and the Tisza floods be.
The stretch between Solotvyno and Velykyj Bychkiw has been out of service since a severe flood on the Tisza in 1998, and resumption of service is questionable.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Map 4872 “Veliký Bočkov” on a scale of 1: 75000
- ↑ Železnice na Podkarpatské Rusi, 1995, Karel Beneš, p. 39.
- ↑ Železnice na Podkarpatské Rusi, 1995, Karel Beneš, p. 133.
- ↑ Discussion and explanation of the route (Slovak)