JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” (UZ) has made changes to the schedule of two Intercity+ trains on the Kyiv-Premysl route to reduce the risk of delays at the border.
“Starting August 10: train No. 715 Kyiv-Premysl will depart from Kyiv at 11:26 instead of 11:59. Train No. 705 Kyiv-Premierzl will depart at 19:19 instead of 20:05,” the company’s press service posted on Facebook on Thursday.
At the same time, as indicated, the arrival time of both trains to Przemyśl will not change. The additional time will be used to extend the stop at Lviv station for border and customs control.
Due to the high traffic, Ukrzaliznytsia advises passengers to allow at least 2-2.5 hours for the transfer.
The Hungarian railroad on Saturday canceled trains #6284 from Debrecen to Mukachevo, #33 from Mukachevo to Budapest and #6285 from Zahony to Chop of “large passenger traffic and long border control,” Ukrzaliznytsia reported.
“The Hungarian railroad has just informed that today trains #6284 from Debrecen to Mukachevo, #33 from Mukachevo to Budapest and #6285 from Zahony to Chop will not run due to “large passenger traffic and long border control”. This is not the first such incident of this month,” Ukrzaliznytsia said in a Telegram message.
“We are unfortunate for the passengers waiting for these flights in Mukachevo, Chop and on the territory of Hungary; and although this route is served exactly by the Hungarian MAV START, we on the part of Ukrzaliznytsia apologize,” Ukrzaliznytsia notes.
“Having gone through the spring of 2022, we are not used to flight cancellations due to a large number of passengers and we value the reputation of the railroad as a whole as a predictable and most reliable transportation, so we will use all official channels with a demand to our Hungarian colleagues to establish uninterrupted traffic for our passengers,” Ukrzaliznytsia emphasized.
Due to a month of scheduled repairs of railway infrastructure in Przemyśl (Poland) in September, Ukrzaliznytsia JSC (UZ) will cancel a number of trains in this direction, assigning a new train to Chełm and changing the schedules of several operating trains, the UZ press service reported on Telegram.
“On September 8, Polish Railways will start the planned infrastructure repairs in Przemyśl. This could have meant the cancellation of all flights in this direction, but together with our Polish colleagues, we minimized the impact of the repair work,” UZ said.
For the duration of the repair work, from September 7 to October 6, train services #89/90 Kyiv-Premysl and #73/74 Kharkiv-Premysl departing from Kyiv and Kharkiv will be canceled, the statement said.
At the same time, a new train No. 119/120 Kyiv-Chelm will be launched on September 3, which will become the third daily train to Chełm. The train will depart from Kyiv at 6:28 and arrive in Chełm at 17:27, conveniently connecting with the Polish IC 21100, which departs from Chełm at 18:12 and arrives at Warsaw Skhidna station at 21:02. In the opposite direction, the IC12100 train arrives in Chełm at 8:42 a.m., which will allow for a transfer to a train at 10:23 a.m. arriving in Kyiv at 22:45 p.m., the UZ press service said, noting that passengers of the newly designated train will not be checked at the border at night.
“This flight will be convenient for those who have flights from Warsaw Chopin Airport after 23:00 or early in the morning (Cairo, Ostrava, Munich, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna),” the UZ press service said.
During the “repair month,” two Intercity+ trains will continue to run on Fridays and Saturdays, departing from Kyiv on September 7-8, 14-15, 21-22. In particular, the existing Intercity+ train No. 705/706 Kyiv-Premysl and the new train No. 707/708 Kyiv-Premysl will depart from Kyiv at 22:17 and arrive in Przemyśl at 6:23, and return from Przemyśl at 11:15, arriving in Kyiv at 20:41.
Trains #53/54 Kyiv-Premysl, #89/90 Kyiv-Premysl, #31/32 Zaporizhzhia-Premysl, #35/36 Odesa-Premysl, #73/74 Kharkiv-Premysl, #715/716 Kyiv-Premysl will be canceled on September 7-8, 14-15, 21-22.
Due to repairs in September, the schedule of trains #54 and #36 will also be changed. Train #54 Przemyśl-Kyiv will depart from Przemyśl at 13:45 (instead of 20:28) and arrive in Kyiv at 5:34 (instead of 9:00). Train No. 36 Przemyśl-Odesa will depart at 13:45 (instead of 20:28) and arrive in Odesa at 8:10 am.
Thus, despite the repairs near Przemysl, the number of seats offered by UZ to Poland in September will even increase by about 100 due to the new flight to Chełm (three pairs of trains on weekends), UZ emphasized, noting that after the repair work is completed in October, if popular, the additional flight to Chełm will be maintained. In this case, the number of tickets to Poland will increase by 10%.
“Ukrzaliznytsia” introduces a new schedule of trains for the summer season-2023 from June 10, according to the Odessa City Council.
“In the new schedule, railroad workers have provided for a new train #148/147 Kiev – Odessa, which will run through Cherkassy,” the Odessa City Council said in a message in the Telegram channel on Saturday.
In addition, the following Ukrzaliznytsia trains extended the route:
№105/106 Odessa – Kiev – Odessa optionally will follow to and from Sumy station, which will allow Sumy residents to reach the seaside city by a direct flight with a convenient time of arrival in Odessa;
№53/54 Odessa – Dnipro – Odessa will optionally be able to run to and from Zaporizhzhia according to the new schedule.
JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” (UZ) has appointed commuter trains from Kharkiv to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk.
The company said in a Telegram that trains will run from Feb. 2:
No. 6812 Kramatorsk-Kharkiv. Departure from Kramatorsk – at 7:25, arrival in Kharkiv (via Slavyansk, where the train will stop at 7:48) – at 13:00;
#6813 Kharkiv-Slaviansk. Departure from Kharkiv – at 13:40, arrival in Slavyansk – 18:41.
As reported on 14 October, Ukrzaliznytsia resumed railway service to Kramatorsk (Donetsk Region), where trains have not run since early April last year.
Due to the enemy-induced de-energizing of the contact network, 17 trains of Ukrzaliznytsia are already running with delays of more than 30 minutes.
As emphasized in the communication in the telegram channel UZ, at the same time:
– not a single long-distance train has been cancelled;
– if a passenger misses his trip due to alarm – he will be delivered to the next one with the same ticket;
– reserve diesel locomotives are put out to work and back up the de-energized sections;
– train stations are working on boarding and disembarking through underpasses; people are in shelters.
Trains are delayed by more than an hour:
– No. 45/46 Uzhgorod – Kharkiv (+1:46);
– №111/112 Kiev – Izyum (+1:40);
– No.149/150 Chernivtsi – Poltava-South (+1:20);
– #31/32 Peremyshl – Zaporizhzhia (+1:18);
– #21/22 Truskavets – Kharkiv (+1:17);
– No. 707/708 Kyiv – Chernihiv (+1:17);
– #15/16 Rakhiv – Kharkiv (1:15);
– #93/94 Chelm – Kharkiv (+1:15);
– №131/132 Dnipro – Lviv (+1:13);
– #119/120 Lviv – Zaporizhzhya-1 (+1:11);
– #721/722 Kyiv – Kharkiv (+1:10);
– No. 731/732 Kyiv – Dnipro (+1:07);
– No. 725/726 Kharkiv – Kiev (+1:07);
– #715/716 Peremyshl – Kiev (+1:01).
On the Odesa, Prydniprovska, and Yuzhnaya Railways, commuter trains, which are already on their way, will continue to run under diesel locomotives with a delay of up to 2 hours.
The Kiev ring train continues with delays due to power outages in several sections of the capital, but traffic across both bridges continues.
