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 | Crimea Railway |
Crimea Railway (Russian: Крымская железная дорога) is a rail operator in the 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 the Republic of Crimea.[3]
Basic information
There are three locomotive deposits: Simferopol, Dzhankoy, and Kerch, a car depot in Dzhankoy, two passenger depots with facilities for repairs and one railcar depot in Simferopol. Additionally, there are signaling, communications and electrification tracks. The Crimea Railway does not have its own railway track machine (PMS) for laying down a new track. Until 2014, the stations of the Directorate worked mostly on unloading, thus providing the major portion of the annual transshipment ports of Crimea in 2013. This amounted to 11 million tons. The main collection exports flux from Balaklava career management. The Crimea passenger service travels to Moscow, Voronezh and Rostov on Don on an intermodal scheme "train+ferry+train".[4]
In November 2014, there was a reopened railroad cargo ferry across the Kerch Strait and as of 2014, there are three train ferries in operation. There are two along the route of the Caucasus - one of the train ferries is in Crimea and another route is in Kavkaz Kerch.[3]
History
The 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, the 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.
On 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 the trains of reassigned Crimea railway, were painted over. The emblem of Ukraine and the logo of "Ukrzaliznytsya" was 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 from 045,046 to 085. The condition of infrastructure and rolling stock of the road at the time of its formation was poor. In mid-October of 2014 specialists of Railways and Goszheldornadzor 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 down 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
