Night trains
Night trains from Kyiv
6 sleeper routes · Ukraine
6 night trains serve Kyiv in the World Train Map atlas, with sleeper routes to Uzhhorod, Rakhiv, Chernivtsi, Warsaw, Mykolaiv, Kovel. The longest is the Night Express at 853 km (~11 h 30 min); the oldest service on this list has run since 1866. Board in the evening, wake up 853 km closer. Every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
- Night Express
Ukraine’s overnight hop across the Carpathians: asleep through Lviv, awake for the climb past Skole into the 2018 twin-bore Beskyd tunnel, then down the valley to Uzhhorod.
Wikipedia (UK) ↗ - Hutsulshchyna
Ukraine’s flagship sleeper into Hutsul country: dusk in Kyiv, dawn above the Prut gorge at Yaremche, then Vorokhta’s stone viaduct and the Yablunytsia pass down to Rakhiv.
Wikipedia (UK) ↗ - Kyiv–Chernivtsi
Overnight across western Ukraine: out of Kyiv just before nine, Lviv in the small hours, then Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia to Chernivtsi by breakfast, ending on the Habsburg line of 1866.
- Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper
Wartime lifeline to the EU: at the Bug border every carriage is jacked up and its bogies swapped from 1,520 to 1,435 mm gauge while passengers doze.
Wikipedia (UK) ↗ - Mykolaiv
The named train to the Black Sea shipyards, out of Kyiv in the evening and into a station the Russian Empire opened in 1908 at six in the morning. It has run daily right through the war.
Wikipedia (UK) ↗ - Svitiaz
The overnight named train to Volhynia, out of Kyiv at 22:50 and into Kovel at first light, over a junction the Russian Empire built in 1873 and the gateway to the Shatskyi lakes it is named after.
Wikipedia (UK) ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
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