Heritage route
Carpathian Tram (Vyhoda Forest Railway)
Vyhoda → Dubovyi Kut · Ukraine
- Distance
- 7 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 45 min
- Average speed
- 9 km/h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- Vyhoda State Forestry (Karpatskyi Tramvai)
- Train
- TU8P / TU6D diesel locomotive · open carriages
- Countries
- Ukraine
- In service since
- 1890
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Ukraine’s last working forest railway, built in 1890 to haul Carpathian timber, now carries tourists up the Mizunka valley past waterfalls.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 13.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 426 m); the longest stretch away from it is 5 km
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in UK) ↗
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