Night train route
Hutsulshchyna
Kyiv → Rakhiv · Ukraine
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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.
How this line was checked
- The 146 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 5595082 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 16 m); the longest stretch away from it is 6 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Ukrzaliznytsia — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Hutsulshchyna?
The Hutsulshchyna runs 845 km from Kyiv to Rakhiv.
How long does the Hutsulshchyna take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ~12 h for the 845 km. That is an average of 70 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 120 km/h.
Who runs the Hutsulshchyna?
Ukrzaliznytsia, with flagship sleeper № 95/96.
How old is the Hutsulshchyna?
The line has been in service since 2014. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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