Narrow-gauge railways in Ukraine


Various gauge railways operate in Ukraine as common carrier, industrial railway or children's railways.

gauge common carrier

Lines in Carpathian Ukraine
Antonivka-Zarichne system in West Ukraine
  • Built around 1900 at the gauge of
Central Ukraine

gauge industry, agricultural and forest railways

Industrial, peat, sugar and forestry lines
  • Mykhailivka sugar railway, 1932–1990.
  • Okhtyrka sugar railway, 56 km, 1940–1999.
  • Potash industrial lines, 49 km, 1933–2003.
  • Smyha peat railways
  • Teresva forestry railway, 138 km, built at the gauge of and regauged to and back to.
  • Vyhoda system, 180 km of forest railways

pioneer railways

Ten pioneer or children's railways exist in various cities.