The Crimea Railway (; ; ) is a Rail transport located in Crimea, providing passenger and freight services to Sevastopol and the Republic of Crimea.
Crimea Railway is a unitary enterprise company independent of Russian Railways, and headquartered in Simferopol.[ Ukraine: Putin signs Crimea annexation, BBC News (26 March 2014)]
Basic information
The Crimea Railway has three locomotive depots at
Simferopol,
Djankoy, and
Kerch; a carriage depot in
Dzhankoy; two carriage depots with facilities for repairs; and one rail car depot in
Simferopol. The Crimea Railway does not possess its own railway track machine for laying down new tracks. The
Crimea passenger service travels to
Moscow,
Voronezh and
Rostov-on-Don on an inter-modal scheme via a combination of train and ferry.
[ Будет мост – будет жизнь]
In November 2014, a railroad cargo ferry across the Kerch Strait reopened with three train ferries in operation: two for the route Caucasus-Crimea and one for Caucasus–Kerch.
History
The territorial predecessor of Crimea Railway was the Crimean Directorate of Cisdnieper Railways, the regional operator Ukrainian Railways in
Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Zaporizhya Oblast,
Kharkiv Oblast,
Kherson Oblast and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. On 26 March 2014, a month after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, the Crimean authorities of the new Republic of Crimea established Crimea Railway as a publicly owned company (a unitary enterprise in Russia) and the city of
Sevastopol. In Spring 2014, railway equipment was exported from Crimea to mainland Ukraine, including passenger
locomotives,
and new
Railway cars. The parts of the Crimean Directorate in the Kherson Oblast and Zaporizhya Oblast of Ukraine were transferred to the Zaporizhia Directorate of Cisdnieper Railways.
[ Ukraine had "stolen" new Crimean trains] The seized trains of the reassigned railway were painted over, with the emblem of Ukraine and the logo of Ukrainian Railways replaced by the emblem of the Republic of Crimea and the abbreviation "CR", but the blue and yellow colors were preserved. On passenger cars, the code of registry was amended from 045,046 to 085.
In October 2014, inspectors conducted a survey of Crimea and concluded that the structures of rail tracks and turnouts were in poor condition. As a result, the maximum speed was reduced to 40 km/h, 25 km/h, and occasionally 10 km/h.
Stations
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Feodosia railway station
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Armyansk railway station
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Dzhankoy railway station
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Vladislavovka railway station
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Kerch railway station
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Port Krym railway station
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Simferopol railway station
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Yevpatoria railway station
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