Crimea Railway

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Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Crimea Railway"
Native name
Федеральное государственное унитарное предприятие «Крымская железная дорога»
Company type Federal state unitary enterprise
Industry Rail transport
Predecessor Cisdnieper Railways (Ukrainian Railways)
Founded26 March 2014;11 years ago (2014-03-26)
Headquarters
Simferopol
,
Russia
Area served
 Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol and Crimean Bridge
Services Passenger trains, Rail transport, Cargo
Revenue ₽ 2.1 billion [1]  (2017)
₽ -5 billion [1]  (2017)
₽ 300 million [1]  (2017)
Total assets ₽ 10.6 billion [1]  (2017)
Total equity ₽ 8 billion [1]  (2017)
Parent Federal Agency for Rail Transport
Website www.crimearw.ru

The Crimea Railway [a] is a state-owned railway company located in Crimea, both managing infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services and has a near-monopoly on train travel in the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol. [2] [3]

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Crimea Railway is a unitary enterprise company independent of Russian Railways, and headquartered in Simferopol. [4] It was founded in 2014 following the Russian annexation of Crimea from units of the Crimean Directorate of the Ukrainian Cisdnieper Railways. [5]

History

The territorial predecessor of Crimea Railway was the Crimean Directorate of Cisdnieper Railways, the regional operator Ukrainian Railways in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Zaporizhya Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Kherson Oblast and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. On 26 March 2014, a month after the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, the Crimean authorities of the new Republic of Crimea established Crimea Railway as a publicly owned company (a unitary enterprise in Russia) and the city of Sevastopol. In Spring 2014, railway equipment was exported from Crimea to mainland Ukraine, including passenger locomotives, track machines and new cars. The parts of the Crimean Directorate in the Kherson Oblast and Zaporizhya Oblast of Ukraine were transferred to the Zaporizhia Directorate of Cisdnieper Railways. [6] [ failed verification ] The seized trains of the reassigned railway were painted over, with the emblem of Ukraine and the logo of Ukrainian Railways replaced by the emblem of the Republic of Crimea and the abbreviation "CR", but the blue and yellow colors were preserved. On passenger cars, the code of registry was amended from 045,046 to 085.

In October 2014, inspectors conducted a survey of Crimea and concluded that the structures of rail tracks and turnouts were in poor condition. As a result, the maximum speed was reduced to 40 km/h, 25 km/h, and occasionally 10 km/h. [3] [7]

Infrastructure

Map of the Crimea Railway as of 2020 Map Krymskaia zheleznaia doroga 2020-04-13 no boundaries.svg
Map of the Crimea Railway as of 2020

The Crimea Railway has three locomotive depots at Simferopol, Dzhankoy, and Kerch; a carriage depot in Dzhankoy; two carriage depots with facilities for repairs; and one rail car depot in Simferopol. The Crimea Railway does not possess its own railway track machine for laying down new tracks. The Crimea passenger service traveled to Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don on an inter-modal scheme via a combination of train and ferry until the completion of the Crimean Bridge in 2019. [7]

In November 2014, a railroad cargo ferry across the Kerch Strait reopened with three train ferries in operation: two for the route Caucasus-Crimea and one for Caucasus–Kerch. [3]

Major stations

Notes

  1. ↑
    • Russian: Крымская железная дорога, romanized: Krymskaja železnaja doroga
    • Ukrainian: Кримська залізниця, romanized: Krymśka zaliznycia
    • Crimean Tatar: Къырым демирёлу, romanized: Qırım demirölü

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "ФГУП "КЖД" реквизиты, ИНН: 9102157783, ОГРН: 1159102022738, ОКПО: 00827113 - адрес, телефон организации" (in Russian). kartoteka.ru.
  2. ↑ "Crimea Railway does not listen to Ukraine". cit.ua. Archived from the original on 26 March 2015. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Общие сведения". crimeagd.ru. 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
  4. ↑ "Russia will launch direct railway transport service to Crimea". Railway PRO Communication Platform. 22 April 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2017.
  5. ↑ Ukraine: Putin signs Crimea annexation, BBC News (26 March 2014)
  6. ↑ Ukraine had "stolen" new Crimean trains
  7. 1 2 Будет мост – будет жизнь
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