Lviv Railways

The Lwiwska Salisnyzja (Ukrainian Львівська залізниця; Russian Львовская железная дорога / Lwowskaja schelesnaja doroga, German as " Lviv Railway " ) is a regional railway company in western Ukraine with headquarters in Lviv and belongs to the Ukrainian railway company Ukrsalisnyzja.

The railway company operating the service networks in the oblasts of Lviv, Volyn, Rivne, Ternopil, Ivano -Frankivsk, Chernivtsi and Transcarpathian and included 2008 4521 kilometers of rail track of which 3207 km were electrified, while 354 stations were operated. While concentrating in Russian broad gauge (1520 mm) existing routes there are also some narrow gauge lines. Director of the company was between 2007 and 2010 Mychajlo Mostowyj, since 2010 this is Bohdan Pych.

A large part of the developed by the Lwiwska Salisnyzja territory once lay in Austria - Hungary, the distances were accordingly built by Hungarian and Austrian railway companies. Even today this is clearly visible in the architecture of buildings and viaducts.

History

The company's history dates back to the 1861 back when the railway line from Przemysl was opened into what was then Lemberg. Until 1918 the railway lines were for the most part the kk State Railways ( Austria - Hungary), and then they came to 1939 to the Polish State Railways. After the occupation of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union in the autumn of 1939, the tracks were put under state administration. First, the Lemberger and Stani Lauer tracks that were combined in November 1939 to Lviv railways. The Umspurungen to Russian broad gauge could largely be completed in 1940, but were zurückgespurt back after the occupation by the United Germany and could only after 1945 are brought to broad gauge. In 1953, finally came to union with the Koweler railroad, since there is a company in its present form.

Directorates

Railway lines

Railway Antoniwka - Saritschne
Railway Batjowo - Korolevo
Railway Buchach - Jarmolynzi ( about Chortkiv, Horischnja Wyhnanka and Kopytschynzi )
Railway Chodoriw - Pissotschna
Railway Debrecen Sighetu Marmaţiei ( section between Newetlenfolu and Teresva about Korolevo )
Railway Delatyn - Stepaniwka ( about Kolomyja )
Railway Hlyboka - Berehomet ( with branch line Karaptschiw - Tschudej )
Railway Halomy - Radoschyn
Railway Horischnja Wyhnanka - Ivane - breath ( with branch line Teressyn Scale Podilska )
Railway Jarosław - Kovel (border crossing Werchrata / Rawa -Ruska to Poland, via Bel, Tscherwonohrad, Sokal and Volodymyr- Wolynskyj )
Railway Kelmenzi -Khmelnytskyi ( about Jarmolynzi )
Railway line Kovel - Kosjatyn ( about Halomy, Kiwerzi, Rivne, Sdolbuniw, Shepetivka and Berdychiv )
Railway line Kovel -Brest (border crossing Sabolottja / Chazislau to Belarus )
Railway line Warsaw - Kovel (border crossing Jagodin / Dorohusk to Poland )
Kovel railway Chimney Kaschyrskyj
Railway line Kovel - Sarny ( about Antoniwka )
Railway Košice - Chop ( border crossing Chop / Čierna Tisou in Slovakia)
Railway Krasne -Odessa ( about Zolochiv, Ternopil, Velyki Birky, Wolotschysk, Khmelnitsky, Schmerynka, Wapnjarka, Rudnyzja, Slobidka, Borshchi, Myhajewe and Rosdilna with Zweigstrecke Velyki Birky - Hrymajliw )
Railway line Lviv - Hrebenne (border crossing Hrebenne / Rawa -Ruska to Poland, Belzec railway Lviv ( Tomaszów ) )
Railway line Lviv - Kiwerzi ( about Kamianka - Buska, Radechiw and Lutsk with branch line to Tscherwonohrad )
Railway line Lviv - Przemysl (border crossing Mostyska Druhi / Medyka to Poland, via Kamjanobrid )
Railway line Lviv - Sdolbuniw ( about Krasne, Brody, Kamyanytsya and Oserjany with branch routes to Kremenez and Misotsch )
Railway line Lviv - Sambir - Chop ( via Sambir and Uzhhorod )
Railway line Lviv - Stry - Chop ( via Pissotschna, Stry and Mukachevo with branch line to Eperjeske border crossing for freight to Hungary in broad gauge )
Railway line Lviv - Chernivtsi ( about Chodoriw, Ivano -Frankivsk, Kolomyia, Sawallja and Luschany )
Railway Nyíregyháza - Chop ( border crossing Chop / Záhony to Hungary in standard gauge )
Railway Potutory - Berezhany
Railway Przemysl - Chyriw (border crossing Malhowice / Nyschankowytschi to Poland, via Dobromyl )
Railway Rivne - Luninets (border crossing Udrynzk / Haryn to Belarus, on Sarny )
Railway Sawallja - Wyschnyzja
Railway Sarny - Kiev ( about Bilokorowytschi, Korosten, Ponisewytschi and Spartak )
Railway Sighetu Marmaţiei - Ivano -Frankivsk (border crossing Valea Viseului / Dilove to Romania, on Delatyn )
Railway Stry - Ivano-Frankivsk ( with branch line Dolyna - Wyhoda about Dolyna and Kalush )
Railway Stry - Lupkow (border crossing Starjawa / Krościenko to Poland, via Drohobytsch, Sambir, Chyriw and Zagórz with the branch lines Drohobytsch - Boryslaw and Drohobytsch - Truskawez )
Railway Stry - Ternopil ( about Chodoriw and Potutory )
Railway Teresva - Welykyj Bychkiv
Railway line Ternopil - Kopytschynzi
Railway line Ternopil - Shepetivka
Railway Chernivtsi - Ocniţa (multiple boundary change Mamalyha / Criva, Lipkany / Podwirjiwka / Medveja Larga / Kelmenzi and Sokyrjany / Ocniţa to Moldova )
Railway Chernivtsi - Suceava (border crossing Wadul Siret / Vicsani to Romania, on Hlyboka )
Railway Chortkiv - Luschany ( with branch line Werentschanka - Wikno over Stepaniwka and Werentschanka )
Railway Uzhgorod - Košice ( Cross-border freight transport in Slovakia)
Railway Uzhhorod - Veľké Kapušany (border crossing to Slovakia, runs parallel to the rail freight route)
Railway Volodymyr- Wolynskyj - Slawkow (border crossing Isow / Hrubieszów to Poland )
Narrow gauge network Berehove

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