Narrow gauge railways in Ukraine
Various 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) gauge railways operate in Ukraine as common carrier, industrial railway or Children railways.
750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) gauge common carrier
Lines in Carpathian-Ukraine [1]
- Beregovo region network, around 200 km, initially built during the Hungarian Empire at the gauge of 760 mm (2 ft 5 15⁄16 in) and regauged to 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) when Ukraine became part of the Soviet Union
- Uzhgorod region, 35 km, built at the gauge of 760 mm (2 ft 5 15⁄16 in) and regauged to 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in).
Antonivka system in West-Ukraine
- Built around 1900 at the gauge of 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) [2]
Central Ukraine [3]
- Haivoron network, built around 1900 at the gauge of 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in), 703 km.[4]
- Novopoltavka railways
- Vapniarka railways, 140 km, built at the 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) gauge by Germany, later regauged to 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) gauge industry, agricultural and forest railways
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 1⁄2 in) and regauged to 760 mm (2 ft 5 15⁄16 in) (Between the two World Wars the region was a part of Czechoslovakia) and back to 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in).
- Vygoda system, 180 km of forest railways
750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) Pioneer railways
Ten pioneer or children railways exist in various cities.[6]
- Dnipropetrovsk pioneer railway, 2 km in the Globy Park in Dnipropetrovsk, opened in 1936.
- Donetsk pioneer railway, 2 km in the Leninist Komsomol Park in Donetsk, opened in 1972.
- Yevpatoria pioneer railway near Yevpatoria on the Crimea Peninsula, opened around 1990, abandoned.
- Kharkiv pioneer railway, 4 km in the northern part of Kharkiv, opened in 1940.
- Kiev pioneer railway, 3 km in the Syretskij Park in Kiev, opened in 1953.
- Lutsk pioneer railway in Lutsk, built 1952-1954.
- Lviv pioneer railway, 1,9 km in the Strijskij Park in Lviv
- Uzhhorod pioneer railway on the bank of the River Uzh in Uzhhorod, opened in 1947.
- Rivne pioneer railway, 2 km, in Rivne, opened in 1949.
- Zaporože pioneer railway, 9 km, between the main railway station of Zaporizhia and the River Dnieper, opened in 1972.
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