Kovel railway station

Kovel
Lviv Railway terminal
Kovel station
General information
LocationUkraine, Kovel
Coordinates51°13′18″N 24°42′43″E / 51.22167°N 24.71194°E / 51.22167; 24.71194
Owned byUkrainian Railways
Operated byLviv Railways
Platforms1 (main platform), 2 (island platform)
Tracks20
ConnectionsBus terminal
Construction
Structure typeat-grade
Parkingyes
Other information
Station code354003
History
Opened1873
Services
Preceding station Ukrainian Railways Following station
Terminus Kovel-Sarny 448 km
toward Zdolbuniv
Kovel-Zdolbuniv Bilyi Nalyv
toward Zdolbuniv
Cherkasy-Volynskyi
toward Chełm, Poland
 Chełm-Kovel Terminus
Mahary
toward Chełm, Poland
 Chełm-Kovel standard-gauge railway
Long-distance trains
Yahodyn
toward Warsaw West, Poland
 Kyiv-Express Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi
Terminus
Suspended/closed services
Preceding station Ukrainian Railways Following station
Verbka
toward Kamin-Kashyrskyi
 Kamin-Kashyrskyi-Kovel
Closed 2024
 Terminus
Verbka
toward Brest, Belarus
 Best-Kovel
Suspended since 2020[1]
Official nameЗалізничний вокзал (Railway station building)
TypeArchitecture
Reference no.2290-Вл
Location
Kovel railway station
Location within Ukraine
Kovel railway station
Kovel railway station (Volyn Oblast)

Kovel (Ukrainian: Ковель) is a railway hub of the Rivne directory of Lviv Railways.[2]

Along with Zabolottia railway station also serves as a rail border checkpoint at Belarus-Ukraine border.[3]

Kovel Station also has rail yard and locomotive depot.

  • Rail station in 1914
  • Rail station during World War I
  • Kaiser Karl I in Kovel in 1917
  • Monument of steam locomotive near the terminal (Su locomotive)

References

  1. ^ Service from Ukraine to Belarus was suspended in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and later, due to sanctions resulting from Belarusian involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  2. ^ Information Archived June 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ List of border checkpoints on the border with Belarus (НА КОРДОНІ З РЕСПУБЛІКОЮ БІЛОРУСЬ) Archived May 23, 2017, at the Wayback Machine. State Border Service of Ukraine.
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