Odesa Railways

Odessa Railway
Одесская железная дорога

Odessa Railway station - the biggest on Odessa Railway
Overview
Headquarters	Odessa
Locale	Ukraine (South Ukraine)
Dates of operation	1865–present
Technical
Track gauge	1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)
Other
Website	Press here

Odessa Railway is a rail operator in Ukraine. Belongs to Ukrainian Railways.

Main information

Lies on the territory of the six oblasts of Ukraine: Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Cherkassy, Kirovograd and Vinnitsa.

On the Odessa railway accounts for about 20% of freight and more than 16% of passenger traffic of Railways of Ukraine. In the region of Odessa Railways are large sea and river ports, which ensures high traffic load.

History

Russian Empire to USSR

The first section of the Odessa railway length 222,52 miles from Odessa to Birsoy with a branch from Razdelnaya to Cuchurgan and with a branch to the quarantine Wharf entered into force 3 December 1865. Next 13 years of the Odessa railway existed as an independent mechanism, and then became part of the joint stock company South-Western Railways. First Odessa railway station was near the Alexis area. Odessa entrepreneurs have shown interest in the organization of freight traffic between major enterprises of the city, also put forward the idea of building branches in important to the city's defense of the military unit. Was built by the Slobodka-Romanovka branch in the port of Odessa, and later in the most important industrial area of the city — Peresyp, which further marked the beginning of kolosovskogo direction. With the growth of passenger traffic, it was decided to build trains, local traffic Razdelnaya railway station, and using existing wrap station only long-distance trains. Dead-end station was built in 1884 in the region of the Italian Boulevard and the adjacent part of which was rebuilt in station square, and was named "Small station", and the existing one was called "the Big station". Also the route was built to service the military units located on the coast between the Middle Fountain and Lustgarten, later demolished in the 1930s. Constructed branch pomichna — podgorodnoe to pair with a vast hive of narrow gauge Railways of Vinnitsa. Then begins the construction of a branch line to service the Balts. Due to the difficult terrain the railroad was constructed a few kilometers South of the city, and around the station Balta rose village belino. Build a direct road connection between the city and the station required a large volume of earthworks, was conducted a few years and for Oceania investment travel on the road for several more years after construction was paid.

Independent Ukraine

In 1992 Odessa railway is part of the national company "Ukrzaliznytsya". Further electrified the plot Kotovsk — Razdelnaya, allowing you to increase the circulation of the electric rolling stock and reorganize the traffic on DWS. Also electrified branch line Odessa-Peresyp — Odessa-Port. Commissioned plots pomichna — Kotovsk — Lobed, Vapniarka — Kotovsk — Lobed, Kuchurgan — Razdelnaya, pour — Odessa-Port. The length of electrified lines becomes 1708 km (which is 39.9% of the total length of the railway). Stops passenger traffic on the branch Baraboi — Ovidiopol. After the completion of the electrification of the Odessa site begins mass write locomotives M62.

Links

• Offisial website of Odessa Railway