Ukrzaliznytsia

Ukrzaliznytsia

Ukrzaliznytsia , also known as Ukrainian Railways, is the State Administration of Railroad Transportation in Ukraine, monopoly that controls vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country with a combined total length of track of over 23,000 km, which makes Ukrainian railroad...

's Darnytsia Railway Station is the largest railroad station (and the main freight station) of the Ukrainian

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

 capital Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

, located in the Left-bank

Subdivisions of Kiev

Subdivisions of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, include the formal administrative subdivision into raions and the more detailed informal subdivision into historical neighborhoods.-History of subdivision:...

 Darnytsia

Darnytsia

Darnytsia , is a raion of the Ukrainian capital Kiev.It is the southeastern raion of Kiev located on the left bank of Dnieper river. It borders Dnieper to its west with Holosiiv Raion of Kiev is lying across it, Dnipro Raion of Kiev city to its north, and Boryspil Raion of Kiev Oblast to its east...

 area.

Built in the nineteenth century, the Darnytsia complex has grown into a gigantic hub, stretching for more than 10 km along the main east-west route. There is a major passenger terminal under construction on the Darnytsia station. It is meant to become Kiev's second long-distance terminal, easing the traffic tension in the main Kiev Passenger Railway Station

Kiev Passenger Railway Station

Kiev Passenger Railway Station is a complex of Kiev's Central Station and adjoining "Southern Station," plus the adjacent Suburban Station, together serving more than 170,000 passengers per day . "Southern Station" is a misnomer in virtually universal usage in Kiev, referring to an entrance on the...

, especially in the eastward direction.

Infrastructure

The Darnytsia hub comprises:

• several sorting yards
  Classification yard
  A classification yard or marshalling yard is a railroad yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railroad cars on to one of several tracks. First the cars are taken to a track, sometimes called a lead or a drill...
  
  
• hump yard
• commuter passenger terminal and two additional train stops
• locomotive
  Locomotive
  A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
  
   and railcar depot
  Motive power depot
  Motive power depot, usually abbreviated to MPD, is a name given to places where locomotives are stored when not being used, and also repaired and maintained. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine sheds", or, for short, just sheds. Facilities are provided for refuelling and...
  
  s
• DVRZ railcar repairing company
• numerous industrial sidings.

Commuter service

On February 16, 2007, the renovated commuter train terminal of the Darnytsia Railway Station was opened to the public. Darnytsia station is planned to be a terminus for the new intracity rail service called "Urban Electric Train" which is already running in an initial phase, though not yet reaching Darnytsia.

Commuter and intra-city directions from Darnytsia:

• Hrebinka
  Hrebinka
  For Ukrainian poet and prosaic see Yevhen HrebinkaHrebinka is a city in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine. Population is 11,662 ....
  
  
• Nizhyn
  Nizhyn
  Nizhyn is a city located in the Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine, along the Oster River, north-east of the nation's capital, Kiev. It is the administrative center of the Nizhynsky Raion, though the city itself is also designated as a district in the oblast...
  
  
• central terminal (intra-city)
• Petrivka (intra-city)

Long-distance service

Currently the long-distance trains pass through Darnytsia non-stop. However, the ticket boxes in the commuter terminal sell tickets for all long-distance routes in Ukraine.

Interconnections with city transport

The railway station is not yet interconnected with the city's rapid transit system

Kiev Metro

The Kiev Metro is a metro system that is the mainstay of Kiev's public transport. It was the first rapid transit system in Ukraine and the third one built in the USSR . It now has three lines with a total length of 63.7 kilometres and 49 stations...

. The Darnytsia Metro station

Darnytsia (Kiev Metro)

Darnytsia is a station on the Kiev Metro's Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska Line. The station was opened on November 5, 1965 as part of the westwards eastwards expansion of the Brovary radius and is the second one to be fully on the left bank of the Dnieper River...

 is actually situated well away, despite sharing exactly the same name.

Kiev tram

Kiev tram

The Kiev Tramway is a tram network which serves the Ukrainian capital Kiev. The system was the first electric tramway in the former Russian Empire and the third one in Europe after the Berlin Straßenbahn and the Budapest tramway. The system currently consists of 139.9 km of track, including...

, bus

Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...

es and marshrutka

Marshrutka

Marshrutka , from marshrutnoye taksi is a share taxi in the CIS countries, the Baltic states, and Bulgaria. Marshrutnoye taksi literally means routed taxicab...

s are connected to Darnytsia station, but they are not up to needs even for the existing commuter passenger flow.

Connection to other city transport is to be improved, including through the Kiev Metro

Kiev Metro

The Kiev Metro is a metro system that is the mainstay of Kiev's public transport. It was the first rapid transit system in Ukraine and the third one built in the USSR . It now has three lines with a total length of 63.7 kilometres and 49 stations...

, which is planned to be linked via enlargement of the .

See also

• Ukrzaliznytsia
  Ukrzaliznytsia
  Ukrzaliznytsia , also known as Ukrainian Railways, is the State Administration of Railroad Transportation in Ukraine, monopoly that controls vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country with a combined total length of track of over 23,000 km, which makes Ukrainian railroad...
  
   - the national railways company of Ukraine
• Darnytsia Railcar Repairing Plant
• Bridges in Kiev
  Bridges in Kiev
  Kiev, that historically was situated on the right bank of the Dnieper River, since 1925-27 covers both banks of the river whose width, as it flows through the city, reaches some several hundred metres. Additionally, several tributaries fall into the Dnieper inside or just north or south of the...