Lvivska Zaliznytsia
Львівська залізниця / Lviwska Salisnyzja
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founding | 1953 |
Seat | Lviv , Ukraine |
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
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
- Antonivka – Sarichne railway line
- Batjowo – Korolewo railway line
- Buschatsch – Yarmolyntsi railway line (via Chortkiv , Horischnja Wyhnanka and Kopytschyntsi )
- Khodoriv – Pissochna railway line
- Debrecen – Sighetu Marmației railway line (section between Newetlenfolu and Tereswa via Korolewo )
- Delyatyn – Stepanivka railway line (via Kolomyja )
- Railway line Hlyboka - Berehomet (with branch line Karaptschiw - Tschudej )
- Railway line Horischnja Wyhnanka – Iwane-Puste (with branch line Teressyn – Skala-Podilska )
- Yarosław – Kovel railway line ( Werchrata / Rawa-Ruska border crossing to Poland, via Bels , Tscherwonohrad , Sokal and Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj )
- Kelmenzi – Kalinkawitschy railway line (via Jarmolynzi , Khmelnyzkyj , Starokostjantyniw , Shepetivka , Novohrad-Volynskyj , Korosten and Ovrutsch to Belarus - border station Slavechna / Vystupowytschi )
- Kovel – Kosjatyn railway line (via Holoby , Kiverti , Rivne , Sdolbuniv , Shepetivka and Berdychiv )
- Kovel – Brest railway line ( Sabolottja / Chazislau border crossing to Belarus)
- Kovel – Kamin-Kaschyrskyi railway line
- Kovel – Kiev railway line (via Antoniwka , Sarny , Bilokorowytschi , Korosten and Spartak )
- Railway line Košice – Tschop (border crossing Tschop / Čierna nad Tisou in Slovakia)
- Railway line Krasne – Odessa (via Zolochiv , Ternopil , Velyki Birky , Volotschysk , Khmelnyzkyj , Schmerynka , Vapnyarka , Rudnyzja , Slobidka , Borschtschi , Myhajewe and Rosdilna with branch line Velyki Birky – Hrymajliw)
- Railway line Lviv – Hrebenne (border crossing Hrebenne / Rawa-Ruska to Poland, railway Lemberg – Bełżec (Tomaszów) )
- Lviv – Kiverti railway line (via Kamjanka-Buska , Radechiv and Lutsk with a branch line to Chervonohrad )
- Railway line Lviv – Przemyśl (border crossing Mostyska Druhi / Medyka to Poland, via Kamjanobrid )
- Lviv – Sdolbuniv railway line (via Krasne , Brody , Kamjanyzja and Oserjany with branch lines to Kremenez and Misoch )
- Railway line Lviv – Sambir – Chop (via Sambir and Uzhhorod )
- Railway line Lviv – Stryj – Chop (via Pissochna , Stryj and Mukachevo with branch line to Eperjeske - border crossing for goods traffic to Hungary in broad gauge)
- Lviv – Chernivtsi railway line (via Khodoriv , Ivano-Frankivsk , Kolomyja , Savallja and Luschany )
- Nyíregyháza – Tschop railway line ( Tschop / Záhony border crossing to Hungary in standard gauge)
- Pidhajzi – Lviv railway line
- Railway line Przemyśl – Chyriw (border crossing Malhowice / Nyschankowytschi to Poland, via Dobromyl )
- Railway line Rivne – Luninez (border crossing Udrynzk / Haryn to Belarus, via Sarny )
- Railway line Savallja – Vyshnytsya
- Railway line Sighetu Marmației – Ivano-Frankivsk (border crossing Valea Vișeului / Dilowe to Romania, via Deljatyn )
- Railway line Stryj – Ivano – Frankivsk (with branch line Dolyna – Wyhoda via Dolyna and Kalush )
- Railway line Stryj – Łupków (border crossing Starjawa / Krościenko to Poland, via Drohobytsch , Sambir , Chyriw and Zagórz with the branch lines Drohobytsch – Boryslaw and Drohobytsch – Truskavets)
- Railway Stryi-Ternopil (about Khodoriv and Potutory )
- Teresva – Velykyi Bychkiv railway line
- Ternopil – Kopychyntsi railway line
- Ternopil – Shepetivka railway line
- Railway line Chernivtsi – Ocnița (multiple border crossings Mamalyha / Criva , Lipkany / Podwirjiwka / Medveja , Larga / Kelmenzi and Sokyrjany / Ocnița to the Republic of Moldova)
- Chernivtsi – Suceava railway line (border crossing Wadul Siret / Vicșani to Romania, via Hlyboka )
- Railway Chortkiv-Luzhany (with Zweigstrecke Werentschanka-Wikno over Stepaniwka and Werentschanka )
- Uzhhorod – Košice railway line (cross-border freight traffic to Slovakia)
- Uzhhorod – Veľké Kapušany railway line (border crossing to Slovakia, runs parallel to the freight railway line)
- Warszawa – Kowel railway line ( Jahodyn / Dorohusk border crossing to Poland)
- Wolodymyr-Wolynskyj – Sławków railway line ( Isow / Hrubieszów border crossing to Poland)
- Narrow gauge network Berehove
Individual evidence
- ↑ At the time of Austria-Hungary - Lemberg.