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Train routes in Ukraine
14 routes · classic 6 · night train 6 · heritage 1 · mountain 1
14 routes cross Ukraine in the World Train Map atlas. The longest is the Night Express at 853 km; the fastest is the Kyiv–Lviv Intercity+, running up to 160 km/h; the oldest line dates to 1866. Every route links to its facts, photo and story, and to the interactive world map.
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Classic (6)
- Kyiv–Lviv Intercity+
Launched for Euro 2012 and never stopped: the Hyundai-built Intercity+ keeps capital and Galicia linked across the steppe, through blackout and war.
Wikipedia (UK) ↗ - Intercity+
Ukraine’s flagship Intercity+ express, launched for Euro 2012, races across the steppe from Kyiv to Kharkiv via Poltava.
Wikipedia (UK) ↗ - Intercity+
Runs south from Kyiv through the black-earth farmland via the Znamianka junction to Odesa, the grand imperial port on the Black Sea.
Wikipedia (UK) ↗ - Intercity+
The first Intercity+ to cross a border, and since 2022 the way most of Ukraine reaches the European Union: Kyiv to the Polish frontier at Przemysl in nine hours, through Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil and Lviv.
Wikipedia (UK) ↗ - Intercity+
Fast Intercity+ from Kyiv to Dnipro, the rocket-building metropolis on the mighty Dnieper in Ukraine’s industrial east.
Wikipedia (UK) ↗ - R Zakarpatia
The daily crossing out of Transcarpathia into the European gauge, over the Tisza at Cierna nad Tisou on a line whose last section opened on 22 October 1873.
Night train (6)
- 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) ↗ - 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.
Heritage (1)
- Carpathian Tram (Vyhoda Forest Railway)
Ukraine’s last working forest railway, built in 1890 to haul Carpathian timber, now carries tourists up the Mizunka valley past waterfalls.
Wikipedia (UK) ↗
Mountain (1)
- Kyiv Funicular
Kyiv’s 1905 funicular climbs a 36% grade from riverside Podil to the St Michael’s monastery quarter — 2.8 million riders a year even in wartime.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
What is the fastest train in Ukraine?
The Kyiv–Lviv Intercity+, running Kyiv to Lviv at up to 160 km/h. It is one of 14 routes in Ukraine in this atlas.
Are there night trains in Ukraine?
Yes — 6 sleeper services in this atlas serve Ukraine: Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper (Kyiv – Warsaw), Mykolaiv (Kyiv – Mykolaiv), Svitiaz (Kyiv – Kovel), Night Express (Kyiv – Uzhhorod), and others.
Can you cross the border by train from Ukraine?
Yes — 3 of its 14 routes continue into another country: Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper (Kyiv – Warsaw), Intercity+ (Kyiv – Przemyśl), R Zakarpatia (Chop – Košice).
Which is the most scenic railway in Ukraine?
Ukraine has 1 scenic or mountain line in this atlas. The longest is the Kyiv Funicular, 0.24 km.
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