Rail transport in Ukraine

Rail network in Ukraine
An EKr1 between Boyarka and Vasylkiv in Kyiv Oblast
Operation
National railway	Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways)
Statistics
Ridership	53.7 million (2014, Ukrzaliznytsia only)[1]
Freight	443.222 megatonnes (436,222,000 long tons; 488,569,000 short tons) (2013, Ukrzaliznytsia only)[1]
System length
Total	21,640.4 kilometres (13,446.7 mi)[1]
Electrified	9,878 kilometres (6,138 mi)[1]
Track gauge
Main	1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)[1]
Features
No. stations	1,447[1]
Map

Rail transport in Ukraine is a major transport mode in Ukraine. Most railway infrastructure in Ukraine is owned by the government of Ukraine through Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways), a joint-stock company which has a de facto country-wide monopoly on passenger and freight transport by rail.

The first railway tracks were constructed in present-day western Ukraine by Austria-Hungary, but most lines were built under the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, resulting in a track web dominated by 1520 mm gauge railways. Part of the rail network in eastern Ukraine was privatized in the late 1990s, creating the biggest private railway company in the country, Lemtrans, which focuses on freight transport. Since the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014, intensified by the February 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, major parts of the Ukrainian rail network have been occupied by Russia-aligned military forces, while the Ukrainian government and Ukrzaliznytsia have undertaken considerable efforts to repair and transform the network for better vital logistical connections with the European Union (which mostly has standard-gauge railways) and Moldova.