Chop railway station

Chop Чоп
Inter-city rail
Location	Rail Station Square, Chop (Pryvokzalna ploshcha) Zakarpattia Oblast Ukraine
Coordinates	48°25′58.1″N 22°12′26.7″E / 48.432806°N 22.207417°ECoordinates: 48°25′58.1″N 22°12′26.7″E / 48.432806°N 22.207417°E
Owned by	Ukrzaliznytsia
Operated by	Lviv Railways
Platforms	2
Tracks	11
History
Opened	4 December 1872

Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, Hungarian: Csap) is a railway station that is located in a small city of Chop, Zakarpattia Oblast in Ukraine. It is part of the Uzhhorod administration (Lviv Railways).

General description

The station is an important transportation hub and gateway to Ukraine. There are two border checkpoints: Strazh for Slovakia and Druzhba for Hungary. The station serves passengers and freight trains. Among the services provided at the station is only embarkment and disembarkment of passengers for commuter and regional lines.

Locomotive depot

The station also contains a locomotive depot that services locomotives. Currently there are no locomotive units assigned to the depot and all M62, ChME3, and D1 multiple units were transferred either to Mukacheve or Koroleve locomotive depots.

Gallery

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  Railway station building

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  Bogie exchange station for track gauge transition

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  Electric locomotive (VL10) at the station

External links

• Media related to Chop train station at Wikimedia Commons
• Chop railway station