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Chop railway station

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Owned by
  
Ukrzaliznytsia

Tracks
  
11

Owner
  
Ukrainian Railways

Operated by
  
Lviv Railways

Opened
  
4 December 1872

Platforms in use
  
2

Chop railway station

Location
  
Rail Station Square, Chop (Pryvokzalna ploshcha) Zakarpattia Oblast Ukraine

Address
  
Chop, Zakarpatska, Ukraine, 89500

Similar
  
Bat'ovo, Mukacheve, Kol'chyno station, Beskyd station, Volovecs

Chop (Ukrainian: Чоп, Hungarian: Csap) is a railway station that is located in a small city of Chop, Zakarpattia Oblast in Ukraine. It is part of the Uzhhorod administration (Lviv Railways).

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General description

The station is an important transportation hub and gateway to Ukraine. There are two border checkpoints: Strazh for Slovakia and Druzhba for Hungary. The station serves passengers and freight trains. Among the services provided at the station is only embarkment and disembarkment of passengers for commuter and regional lines.

Locomotive depot

The station also contains a locomotive depot that services locomotives. Currently there are no locomotive units assigned to the depot and all M62, ChME3, and D1 multiple units were transferred either to Mukacheve or Koroleve locomotive depots.

References

Chop railway station Wikipedia