Kyiv City Express
Overview
LocaleKyiv, Ukraine
Transit typeUrban Rail
Number of lines1
Number of stations15
Daily ridership1,608,000[1]
Operation
Began operationSeptember 2, 2009
Operator(s)Kyivpastrans
Technical
System length50.8 km (31.6 mi)
Electrificationoverhead lines
System map
23,5
 Livyi Bereh
17,7
 Vydubychi Line 3 Ukrainian Railways
 Kyiv-Demiivskyi Ukrainian Railways
 Lybidska Line 2
14,3
 Protasiv Yar Ukrainian Railways
12,3
 Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi Light Rail Line 1 Ukrainian Railways
8,8
 Karavaievi Dachi
 Vidradnyi
4,3
 Kyiv-Volynskyi
0
 Borshchahivka Light Rail
 Sviatoshyn Line 1 Ukrainian Railways
3,2
 Rubezhivskyi Line 1
5,2
 Syrets Line 3
8,8
 Vyshhorodska
11
 Zenit
12,3
 Pochaina Line 2
14,2
 Obolon
 Troieschyna-2 Light Rail
18,3
 Troieschyna
20,5
 Kyiv-Dniprovskyi Ukrainian Railways
 Livoberezhna Line 1
23,2
 Kyivska Rusanivka
27
 Darnytsia Ukrainian Railways

The Kyiv City Express (Ukrainian: Київська міська електричка, romanized: Kyivska miska elektrychka) is an urban rail transit passenger service in Kyiv, Ukraine. The service is operated by Ukrainian Railways and Kyivpastrans. The project uses a long-existing railroad ring in the city for peak hour circulation of electric multiple unit trains.

Working 2 since September 2009[2] Kyiv Urban Electric Train is the first instance of a combined municipal railway service and an intracity passenger rail route in Ukraine, and arguably in the former Soviet Union as a whole.

The ring was fully completed on 4 October 2011, the full length of lines is 50.8 km with 15 stations.[2] Opening hours are from 5:48 until 21:37 with a time between trains of between 10 and 30 minutes.[2] 12 trains operate on the line; the fastest time to complete a loop is 1 hour and 25 minutes.[2] A train ticket costs ₴15.[3]

Name

The project intentionally uses the colloquial Ukrainian term electrychka ("electric train") as its official name. This reflects the essence of the service, which is provided with exactly the same rolling stock and railway personnel that are used for the conventional electrychka commuter rail since Soviet rule.

Another name, kiltseve metro (a Kyiv "ring metro") was sometimes used, but never became official or widespread.

Infrastructure

All the railroad infrastructure the Kyiv Urban Electric Train utilizes already existed in the city and is shared with other services of the Ukrzaliznytsia (both passenger and freight). However, not all of the Kyiv's rail stations and halts are served by the project.

The trains depart from and arrive to the dedicated terminus platform at the Darnytsia Station, thus making a circle on the Kyiv ring railroad through the Kyiv Passenger Railway Station. However, not all of the trains commence full circle: some early and last runs start or terminate at the Kyiv-Volynskyi Station. Passengers are advised to consult with the schedule and pay attention to the on-platform audio announcements.

Connections with other public transport

Kyiv Urban Electric Train is designed as a mean of transporting passengers to- and from the Kyiv Metro stations and major public transport routes. Thus, all stops for the moment are essentially multimodal transfer hubs.

Rolling stock

Similar railroads

References

  1. ↑ Statistics on KMDA website. Archive of the original. Cited 8-4-2021
  2. 1 2 3 4 Повелитель "електричок": як одіозний залізничник продав Києву ліцензію на міську електричку [Master of "electric trains": how odious railwayman sold to Kyiv a license for a city train] (in Ukrainian). Ukrayinska Pravda. 18 December 2017. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. ↑ "Міська електричка м. Київ. Розклад руху". Киевская Городская Электричка (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2023-07-11.
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