Crimea Railway
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Simferopol Railway station - the biggest in Crimea | |
| Locale | Crimea |
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| Dates of operation | 2014[1]–present |
| Predecessor | Near-Dnipro Railway (Ukraine) |
| Track gauge | 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in) |
| Length | 3,275 km (2,030 mi) |
| Headquarters | Simferopol |
| Website | Press here |
Crimea Railway (Russian: Крымская железная дорога) is a rail operator in Republic of Crimea and city of Sevastopol.[1]
It was founded in 2014, following the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea,[2] on the basis of units of Crimean Directorate of Ukrainian Near-Dnipro Railways, located on the territory of Republic of Crimea.[3]
Basic information
There are three locomotive depots: Simferopol, Djankoy, Kerch, car depot in Dzhankoy, two passenger depot with repair facilities, one railcar depot (in Simferopol), track, signalling and communications, electrification. Does not have its own railway track machine (PMS) for the overhaul of the way. Until 2014 stations of the Directorate worked mostly on unloading, providing the major share of the annual transshipment ports of Crimea, in 2013, amounting to 11 million tons. Main collection — export fluxes from Balaklava career management. From Crimea passenger service goes to Moscow, Voronezh, Rostov on Don on intermodal scheme "train+ferry+train".[4]
In November 2014, renewed railroad cargo ferry across the Kerch Strait, as of 2014 operates three train ferry: two along the route of the Caucasus — Crimea, one route Kavkaz — Kerch.[3]
History
Territorial predecessor of the modern Crimean Railways was the Crimean Directorate of Near-Dnipro railways in Ukraine and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Until 15 March 2014 Directorate obeyed Near-Dnipro railways, after which agreement was reached on its resubmission of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Crimea following the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. 26 March 2014 by the decree of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea established the state enterprise "Crimea railway" on the basis of enterprises of railway transport in the territory of the Republic of Crimea and the Federal city of Sevastopol, which was ceded a large part ceased to exist Crimean Directorate. In the course of events spring 2014 from Crimea to mainland Ukraine exported all new railway equipment, including passenger locomotives CHS7, track machines and cars of the new series. The places of the former Crimean Directorate, remaining on the territory of Kherson and insignificant part of Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine were transferred to Zaporizhia Directorate.[5] For the first time on the trains of distant following, periodinane Crimea railway, were painted over the emblem of Ukraine and the logo of "Ukrzaliznytsya", replaced by the emblem of the Republic of Crimea and the abbreviation "CR", but the blue and yellow colors were preserved. Also on passenger cars was amended code of registry with 045 and 046 on 085. Condition of infrastructure and rolling stock of the road at the time of its formation was poor. In mid-October 2014 specialists Railways and Hosgeldiniz conducted a survey of Crimea and came to the conclusion that the structure of rail tracks and turnouts are in poor condition. As a result, in some areas the speed of trains was recommended to be reduced to 40, 25, and occasionally up to 10 km/h.[3][4]
References
- 1 2 Crimea Railway does not listen to Ukraine
- ↑ Ukraine: Putin signs Crimea annexation, BBC News (21 March 2014)
- 1 2 3 "Общие сведения". crimeagd.ru. 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
- 1 2 Будет мост - будет жизнь
- ↑ Ukraine had "stolen" new Crimean trains
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