Hajworon narrow-gauge network
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The Hajworon narrow-gauge network is a network of narrow-gauge railways in Ukraine in the Vinnytsia and Kirovohrad oblasts around the city of Hajworon .
The narrow-gauge railways operated by the Ukrsalisnyzja (in particular the Odeska Salisnyzja ) consisted essentially of the following lines at the end of 2010:
- Rudnyzja – Dochne – Bershad – Hajworon (train pairs 6271/6274, 6273/6272)
- Hajworon – Holovaniwsk (pair of trains 6290/6291)
history
The beginnings of the narrow-gauge railways go back to a law of 1899 that regulated the construction of narrow-gauge railways in what was then the Russian Empire. The First Society for Feeder Railways then began building feeder railways to the existing broad-gauge lines . In 1899 the route was of Rudnyzja to Olwiopol and the short distance between Bershad and Bershad sugar factory (now Pylyponiwka) opened, in 1901 the branch line came Dochno - Chechelnyk to the tracks were commonly called Südzufuhrbahn referred.
The expansion continued under Soviet leadership after 1920, in 1931 the line from Rudnyzja to Popeljuchy / Tschornomyn (a sugar factory was located here) was opened to traffic, in 1936 the branch line Jemyliwka - Perehoniwka was opened, in 1939 the Popeljuchy line, which was initially separate from the rest of the network, was opened - Kamenka-Dnestrovskaja (in today's Republic of Moldova) opened, followed in 1943 by the short stretch between Ustja and Ustja-Dorf .
After the Second World War , the slow decline of the route network began, in 1950 the last extension was a connection over the broad-gauge line from Chornomyn to Popeljuchy. The 900 m long loop made it possible to guide continuous passenger trains between Camenca and Hajworon. The route to the sugar factory in Chornomyn was swiveled so that the freight could reach Popeljuchy without additional shunting. In the same year, however, the short stretch from between Pidhorodna and Pervomajsk was shut down.
In the 1980s, the route between Hajworon and Pidhorodna began to be re-tracked. Due to a lack of money, however, only the routes between Hajworon and Tauschne and Pidhorodna and Holovaniwsk (via Pobuske ) could be completed, a 28-kilometer section is missing to close the gap. At that time there was no longer any through traffic, as the section between Rudnyzja and Popeljuchy was not used for passenger traffic. In 1991 the short stretch to Pylyponivka was discontinued and the rails dismantled in 2003, in 1997 traffic on the route across the Moldovan border to what is now Camenca was discontinued due to the Transnistrian conflict and the facilities were dismantled in 1999 to Rudnyzja.
In the late summer of 2001 the tracks of the narrow-gauge railway on the main road near Pidhorodna were dismantled by strangers, so that the railway was interrupted. It was decided to dismantle the remaining tracks to Holovanivsk (since there was a broad gauge connection up to this point) including the branch lines, this then happened in spring 2002. The branch line to Chechelnyk was also discontinued in 2003, but in 2005 the decision was made to keep the remaining entire line .
Vehicle use
In daily traffic today only the locomotives of the SŽD series ТУ2 are used, on the branch lines up to 2002 locomotives of the SŽD series ТУ4 and SŽD series ТУ6 were used, today these are still used for shunting trips in the terminal stations. The wagons used for passenger transport come from the Polish wagon construction factory Pafawag in Wroclaw and about half consist of couchette cars with the couches arranged lengthways on both sides of the aisle.
Web links
- Article on the general history of narrow-gauge railways in Ukraine
- Overview of the routes of the narrow-gauge railway (Russian)
- Description of the story (Russian)
- 2010 timetable
- http://home.zonnet.nl/p.engelbert/UA-MPS-3.html
literature
- Helmuth Lampeitl: Narrow Gauge Railways in Ukraine. Bahn im Bild, Volume 113 . Verlag Peter Pospischil, Vienna 2000, no ISBN.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.railroad.od.ua/suburban/3_1.pdf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
