Volovets pass

Taking advantage of the warm and sunny weather during the May holidays, we went to dfaw day in the Carpathian Mountains. The ride in the Carpathian Mountains for just one day, of course, not serious, but ... well, as it happens. The purpose of the trip was a railway volovets pass (the road Lviv-Mukachevo), and more precisely to the area from Lavochne Volovtsa, where there are two points of interest Beskidy tunnel and Volovetsky loop. Apart from these, this section contains a few small tunnels and numerous bridges. In general, there is much to see, especially since around the mountain and the sun. via





1. At about 9 am we landed at the station Lavochne. We have to walk to the station Beskid.



2. Lavochne almost all coming from the Lviv compositions cling additional locomotives since further to the entrance to the pass starts very serious biases. Detachable additional equipment in the Volovtse; there, in turn, the procedure is repeated with trains arriving from Mukachevo.



3. The plot is almost entirely served by electric VL11M two sections:



4. Immediately behind us catches EPL2T station Lviv-Mukachevo:



5. The path is somehow completely laid on wooden sleepers. Moreover, fixing one of the ways - classic crutches.



6.



7. We decided to climb the hill and look out. Simpatishnye:



8. In the other direction:



9. Congresses front of the station. In the distance you can see the beginning of the steep climb to the pass:



10. Volovtsa raced toward the freight. We do not believe their eyes: the front was just three electric:



11. Another as rear pusher:



12. shunting traffic lights before the Congress:



13. Another freight train with opposite direction:



14. And we move on.



15.



16. The surrounding landscape:



17.



18. The input station lights Lavochne:



19.



20. Picket plaque tells us that from here to Moscow 1631 km:



21.



22. Past in the wrong direction followed single overhead lines. On this site, by the way, pretty often let the train down the wrong path. What is the reason, we could not understand, why this issue needs help room.



23.



24. In one of the curves putejtsy changed sleepers:



25. Nearby was found next to the post And this cute design:



26.



27. For curve overlooking the two bridges across the river Opir:



28. From the Volovtsa prichuhala another EPL2T titled "Georgy Kirpa»:



29. After some time, there is also shown the distillation of two Vlov. Notice how large a bias in the way this place



30.



31. But both the bridge over the Opir.



32. Near to us with supports in the form of stools was built already at the Union, and the long-range, which are only visible in the photo massive concrete pillars, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire:



33. A little lower. Because of the new bridge spans seemed old farm. More on the thrall of this bridge, unfortunately, there was no time.



34. Further practical route to the station Beskyd decided to go to the surrounding villages along the glands.



35. Local flora:



36.



37. We turn to another bridge:



38.



39. I was surprised that the road passing under the bridge, part of the protected zone.



40. Near to us the bridge - the old, the far - the new.



41.



42. Immediately after the bridge starts Beskid station, which is that all three ways:



43. The station buildings:



44. The overhead lines and chickens:



45. The station has already begun preparatory work for the construction of a new tunnel Beskydy.



46. ​​It is specifically cleared the ground and drank Forest:



47. Freshly technological path that is likely to be used to haul the soil:



48. Old single-track tunnel. This is the only place on the single-track section over the transport corridor from Russia to Italy, so there can pass only 24 pairs of freight and passenger trains 23 pairs a day. The new tunnel will be double-track and will miss up to 100 pairs per day. A new tunnel will be located 30 meters to the left from the old. The length of the new tunnel will be 1822 m 1746 m against the old. In light bulb burning in the tunnel in the photo, by the way, you can see the highest point volovets pass:



49. We were lucky: timetable of trains on the website of Lviv railway be obsolete and train arrived half an hour later than we expected, otherwise we simply did not have it. By train, we drove through Volovetsky loop and wandered around Skotarske, as I will explain in the second part.



Source: ">