Lvivska Zaliznytsia

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Львівська залізниця / Lviwska Salisnyzja

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founding 1953
Seat Lviv , UkraineUkraineUkraine 
management Bohdan Pych
Branch Railway company
Website www.railway.lviv.ua

The Lvivska Salisnyzja (Ukrainian Львівська залізниця , German about "Lemberg Railway") is a regional railway company in western Ukraine with its headquarters in Lviv and belongs to the Ukrainian railway company Ukrsalisnyzja .

The railway company operates the route networks in the oblasts of Lviv , Volyn , Rivne , Ternopil , Ivano-Frankivsk , Chernivtsi and Transcarpathia and in 2008 comprised 4521 kilometers of railway line, of which 3207 kilometers were electrified, and 354 stations were served. In addition to the lines primarily in Russian broad gauge (1520 mm), there are also some narrow-gauge lines . The director of the company was Mychajlo Mostowyj between 2007 and 2010, and Bohdan Pych since 2010.

A large part of the territory developed by the Lvivska Salisnyzja was once in Austria-Hungary , and the routes were built accordingly by Austrian or Hungarian railway companies. Even today this can be clearly seen in the architecture of buildings or viaducts.

history

Regional Railway Companies of Ukraine as of 2014
Headquarters of the railway company in Lviv

The history of the company goes back to 1861 when the railway line from Przemyśl to what was then Lviv was opened. Until 1918, most of the railway lines belonged to the Imperial and Royal State Railways (Austria-Hungary), after which they belonged to the Polish State Railways until 1939 . After the occupation of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union in autumn 1939, the railways were placed under state administration. First the Lemberger and Stanislauer Bahnen, which were merged in November 1939 to the Lemberger Eisenbahnen. The gauge changes to Russian broad gauge were largely completed in 1940, but were retraced after the occupation by Greater Germany and could only be brought back to broad gauge after 1945. In 1953 it was finally merged with the Kowel Railway , and the company has existed in its current form ever since.

Directorates

  • 1 - Lviv Railway Directorate, responsible for the Lviv Oblast
  • 2 - Ternopil Railway Directorate, responsible for Ternopil Oblast
  • 3 - Rivne Railway Directorate, responsible for Rivne and Volyn Oblast
  • 4 - Ivano-Frankivsk Railway Directorate, responsible for the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Chernivtsi and the eastern part of the Transcarpathian Oblast
  • 5 - Uzhhorod Railway Directorate, responsible for the Transcarpathian Oblast excluding the eastern parts

Railway lines

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At the time of Austria-Hungary - Lemberg.

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