Night train route
Svitiaz
Kyiv → Kovel · Ukraine
- Distance
- 525 km
- Fastest time
- 10 h
- Average speed
- 53 km/h
- Operator
- Ukrainian Railways
- Train
- UZ sleeping cars
- Countries
- Ukraine
- In service since
- 1873
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 2519762 (341 km), relation 2519763 (182 km) — 523 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Ukrainian Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in UK) ↗
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