Vicșani railway station
Vicșani (Ukrainian: Вікшань) is a railway station near the town of Siret in Suceava County of northern Romania, 7km south of the Ukrainian border, on the line north from Bucharest.
The station functions as the
gauge change equipment
at Vadul-Siret to change from standard gauge to Ukrainian wide gauge of 1520mm.
Vicșani railway station serves the Căile Ferate Române Line 500.
In November 2022 as part of a joint Romania–Ukraine programme to provide extra rail capacity following the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, six standard gauge and seven broad gauge tracks were reopened for traffic.[1]
See also
References
- ^ "Test run begins on Romanian-Ukrainian cross border line". RailwayPro. 2022-11-09. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
External links
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