The Donetsk Railways has resumed its usual service, with passenger and commuter trains running per schedule and freight services being carried out as per requests received from Donbas manufacturing companies, railways' spokesperson said.
On May 2, rail service was suspended on the
Lozova-Sloviansk-Druzhkivka and Forpostna-Krasny Lyman sections for
trains heading towards Bukine-Izium-Kharkiv and Tropa-Kupyansk. As a
result, 14 pairs of passenger trains were re-routed and two pairs of
Southern Railroad passenger trains canceled; 29 pairs of commuter trains
were canceled and nine pairs re-routed.
The takeover of the Donetsk Railways’ authority on May 19 led to a
suspension of freight services on the railroad. Freight trains were
stopped en route, while passenger and commuter trains continued running
without changes.
“A total 2,623 loaded railcars and 462 empty ones were stopped en
route to the Donetsk Railways. Donetsk Railways workers could not send
3,015 loaded railcars and 1,355 empty ones onto the other railroads at
the addresses of Ukrainian consignees because of the suspension of the
rail service,” Ukrzaliznytsia, the state administration of railroad
transportation in Ukraine, said a day earlier.
A few hours later freight services resumed.
The Donetsk railway crosses Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions and
partly those of Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv. The railway is
2,813 kilometers long, which is 13% of the total length of the Ukrainian
railroad network. At the same time, the Donetsk railway accounts for
47% of the loading and 36% of the unloading in the Ukrainian railroad
system.
