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Narrow-gauge railways in Ukraine

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ZIM railcar on the bridge over Pivdennyi Buh on Haivoron narrow-gauge railway

Various 750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in) gauge railways operate in Ukraine as common carrier, industrial railway or children's railways.

750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in) gauge common carrier

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Lines in Carpathian Ukraine [1]

  • Berehove region network, around 200 km, initially built during the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the gauge of 760 mm (2 ft 5+1516 in) and regauged to 750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in) when Ukraine became part of the Soviet Union
  • Uzhhorod region, 35 km, built at the gauge of 760 mm (2 ft 5+1516 in) and regauged to 750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in).

Antonivka-Zarichne system in West Ukraine

  • Built around 1900 at the gauge of 750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in) [2]

Central Ukraine [3]

  • Haivoron network, built around 1900 at the gauge of 750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in), 703 km.[4]
  • Novopoltavka railways
  • Vapniarka railways, 140 km, built at the 600 mm (1 ft 11+58 in) gauge by Germany, later regauged to 750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in)

750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in) gauge industry, agricultural and forest railways

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Industrial, peat, sugar and forestry lines [5]

  • Mykhailivka sugar railway, 1932–1990.
  • Okhtyrka sugar railway, 56 km, 1940–1999.
  • Potash industrial lines, 49 km, 1933–2003.
  • Smyha peat railways
  • Teresva forestry railway, 138 km, built at the gauge of 750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in) and regauged to 760 mm (2 ft 5+1516 in) (Between the two World Wars the region was a part of Czechoslovakia) and back to 750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in).
  • Vyhoda system, 180 km of forest railways

750 mm (2 ft 5+12 in) pioneer railways

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Ten pioneer or children's railways exist in various cities.[6]

References

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  1. ^ [1] Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine MPS lines in Carpathian Ukraine
  2. ^ [2] The Antonivka system in West Ukraine
  3. ^ [3] MPS-lines in Central Ukraine
  4. ^ [4] Southern supply railway
  5. ^ [5] Industrial and forestry railways in the Ukraine
  6. ^ [6] Pioneer railways in the Ukraine