Chernivtsi – Ocnița railway line
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The Chernivtsi (Chernivtsi) –Ocnița railway is a branch line in Ukraine . The single-track and non-electrified line runs through the Bukovina and the northern part of the Republic of Moldova in western Ukraine and is served by the Ukrainian Railways / Lviwska Salisnyzja (to Sokyrjany ) and the Moldovan Railways .
history
Part of the railway line (between Chernivtsi and Nowosielitza - Localbahn Czernowitz – Nowosielitza ) was opened on July 12, 1884 by the company of the same name (from June 12, 1886 Bukowinaer Lokalbahnen ) in what was then the Crown Land of Bukowina within Austria-Hungary , the management of this part of the railway was part of the Lemberg-Chernivtsi-Jassy Railway until July 1, 1889 , on that day it was transferred to the kk Austrian State Railways , and on January 1, 1894, the entire line became the property of the Austrian state.
Following the station on the Austrian-Russian border, the route to Okniza (today Ocnița ) and on to Belzy (today Bălți ) due to its location in the Russian Empire ( Bessarabia Governorate ) was opened by the Russian Southwest Railways on December 3, 1893 Russian broad gauge opened.
After the end of the First World War , the Bukovina and Bessarabia and thus also the railway came to Romania and was taken over and continued to operate by the Romanian State Railways . The line between what is now Noua Suliță and Ocnița was switched to standard gauge from 1921 to 1923. During the Second World War , Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia were briefly annexed by the Soviet Union in the summer of 1940 , but came back into Romanian possession after the German invasion of the Soviet Union and the reconquest of Northern Bukovina by Romanian troops in the summer of 1941 to 1944. After the end of the Second World War, northern Bukovina and Bessarabia were finally connected to the Soviet Union and the entire railway line was switched to broad gauge (1520 mm), but the single-track system was retained. By dividing the historical landscape of Bessarabia into the Soviet republics of Moldova and Ukraine , the borders were redrawn and the railway now lay on the sections between Mamalyha , Podwirjiwka and Kelmenzi and from Sokyrjany on Moldovan territory, the rest of the route on Ukrainian territory. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, border controls were introduced on the respective sections and the railway facilities between Czernowitz and Kelmenzi are in poor condition.
business
Today there is still a daily pair of trains between Chernivtsi and Ocnița, the Moldovan border and customs control takes place after the Mamalyha station, the Podwirivka station on Ukrainian territory is passed through without stopping and checked again in Larga.
Web links
literature
- EA number: The local railways in Galicia and Bukovina . tape 2 . Lehmann & Wentzel publishing bookstore, Vienna 1908.