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's railways.

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

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 Austro-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's railways exist in various cities.[6]

  • Dnipro pioneer railway, 2 km in the Globy Park in Dnipro, 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.
  • Kyiv pioneer railway, 3 km in the Syretskij Park in Kyiv, 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.
  • Zaporizhia pioneer railway, 9 km, between the main railway station of Zaporizhia and the River Dnieper, opened in 1972.

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