Meet the highlight of new 2024/2025 timetable of 🇺🇦 and 🇭🇺 railways, our child – ‘Transcarpathia’ direct night train 9/10 Kyiv - Budapest!

This train will definitely find a place among the top night trains in Europe

How did we make it possible?

Attention! Long thread ahead 🧵
Some of you may have already noticed an unusually large coaches. Yes, this is a standard 🇺🇦 wide-gauge coaches. Due to the wider gauge, the rolling stock is also larger

Last time this type of coach was used on regular trains to Budapest in late 1990s

📷 Albert Koch

Wide gauge passenger carriages have reached Warszawa Wschodnia! For the first time since 2012

How was it? Thread ⬇️ Poland is the most popular international destination for 🇺🇦 passengers now. Direct train from Kyiv to Warsaw consists of 6-7 cars due to the deficit of RIC cars. Hubs operate in Przemyśl (5 trains daily) and Chełm (2 trains daily) at almost full capacity

Renaissance of #CrossBorderRail in 🇺🇦

Restoration of railway line Przemyśl (PL) - Khyriv (UA) - Krościenko (PL) is underway!

What is special about this railway?
Why is it useful for PKP?
And why did armed soviet border guards drive by the open doors of each carriage?

Thread⬇️ Railway was built in 1872 as part of the First Hungarian-Galician railway, which connected Budapest with Lviv

At that time, railway didn't cross any borders - it was Austro-Hungarian Empire. But after the end of WW2, track crossed 3 countries: Ukraine, Poland and Czechoslovakia

Finally! UZ and CFR have restored international railway connection between Rakhiv (UA) and Valea-Višeului (RO) in the Carpathians.

After a more than 10-year break, this region ceases to be a railway dead end. We have been waiting for this for a long time! At the end of August, Ukrainian railways completed restoration of 19.3 kilometers of tracks and was waiting for the completion of works on the Romanian side.

Same place 2 months ago:

Another reason why I love being on this railway is that it's one of those places where you kind of forget about time. People here are as they are, there is a homely atmosphere without the hustle and bustle of big cities.

Authenticity lives in such places A package of fresh pies in conductor's compartment

Haivoron is an exotic place on the railway map of Ukraine. There are two gauge standards at local station: wide 1520 mm and narrow 750 mm. And if you are very lucky, you will see a real narrow-gauge steam locomotive. Reparation German loco 🙂 🧵 On the outskirts, narrow-gauge railway crosses the charming Pivdennyi Buh river, and than begins a considerable ascent from the river valley, steam and diesel locos have to strain a little here. Fishermen and sometimes kayakers are always hanging out near the bridge