Administrative Structure
The railways are split into 6 territorial railway companies: Donets'k, Lviv, Odessa, Southern, South-Western and Near-Dnipro. The subdivision is purely administrative as it doesn't correspond to the particular railway lines or branches. The names of regional railways are purely historic, inherited from the Russian and Austro-Hungarian Empires. For instance, the 'South-Western Railway' actually operates the 'north-central' part of Ukraine's rail network. The 'Southern Railway' actually operates in the east of the country, whilst the Near-Dnipro Railways are the southern-most.
The six separate territorial railways each have their own directorates, located in the following cities:
- Donetsk Railway – Donetsk
- Lviv Railway – Lviv
- Odessa Railway – Odessa
- Southern Railway – Kharkiv
- Southwestern Railway – Kiev
- Near-Dnipro Railway – Dnipropetrovsk
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