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Ukrainian Railways Ukrainian Railways ( uk, Укрзалізниця, Ukrzaliznytsia, abbreviated as UZ) is a state-owned joint-stock company of rail transport in Ukraine, a monopoly that controls the vast majority of the railroad transportation in the country. I ...

station (and the main

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station) of the

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capital

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, located in the city's Left-bank

Darnytsia Darnytskyi District ( uk, Дарницький район, ), is an urban district of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. It is the southeastern district of Kyiv located on the left bank of Dnipro river. It borders the Holosiivskyi District of the city t ...

area. Built in the nineteenth century, the Darnytsia railway hub has grown into a gigantic railway center, expanding for more than 10 km along the main east–west route. Started in 2004, construction is under way at the new Darnytsia railway terminal complex. When finished, the station will serve long-distance passenger trains, house own station of the Kyiv metropolitan, a two-storey car parking, a tunnel for automobile and tram traffic. The complex is meant to become Kyiv's second long-distance terminal, easing the traffic tension in the main

Kyiv Passenger railway station Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi (''Kyiv-Passenger'', uk, Київ-Пасажирський) is a railway station in the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv. The station is a railway hub consisting of several railroad station buildings, along with its own repair facilit ...

Infrastructure

The Darnytsia hub comprises: several sorting yards,

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, commuter passenger terminal and two additional train stops,

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and railcar

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s, Darnytsia Railcar Repair Factory railcar repair company, numerous industrial sidings.

Passenger service

Commuter service

On 16 February 2007, the renovated commuter train terminal (pair of mirroring opposite buildings) of the station opened to the public. Commuter and intra-city directions from Darnytsia: Hrebinka,

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, central terminal (intra-city), Petrivka Railway Station (Kyiv) (intra-city). On 30 November 2018, the

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high-speed train service linking

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and Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi was launched, which stops at Darnitsa station.

Long-distance service

Currently, most long-distance trains pass through Darnytsia non-stop; none of them originates or terminates at the station. However, the ticket boxes in the commuter terminals sell tickets for all long-distance routes in Ukraine.

Interconnections with city transport

In 2011, Darnytsia station became the terminus for the new intracity circle rail service called "Urban Electric Train". Trains for both circle directions arrive at Darnytsia and change heads.

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es and

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. The Darnytsia Metro station is situated well away, despite sharing precisely the same name. Connection to other city transport is to be improved, including through the Kyiv Metro, which is planned to be linked via enlargement of the .

Railway hub

Besides the passenger terminal, Darnytsia train station also has its own locomotive and railcar depots. In addition to the east of Darnytsia railway hub is located Darnytsia Railcar Repair Factory (DVRZ) which is a major railcar repair factory of the

. Darnytsia locomotive depot is specialized in maintaining and repair of

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locomotives.

Prospects of future expansion

Since 2012,

gradually increases the number of long-distance passenger trains that stop for Darnytsia in order to relieve the

and prevent some of the passenger flow from crossing the overloaded city bridges Паровозы в депо Дарница

Darnytsia Station will also harbor a dedicated

for

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s that are being launched by the Ukrzaliznytsia in 2012.Trainer for drivers of Hyundai Rotem electric trains installed at Darnytsia Station
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References

External links

Google maps
- Satellite view of the Darnytsia passenger railway terminal
Wikimapia
Larger satellite view of the whole Darnytsia railway hub * {{Transport in Kyiv Southwestern Railways stations Railway stations in Kyiv