“Ukrzaliznytsia” built in the Carpathians a tunnel to Europe

This was announced by the Deputy Head of the Department of Tracks and Structures Heorhiy Lynnyk the Hromadske informs.

The tunnel is on the Beskyd pass and has the same name.

The single-track Beskyd tunnel was designed and built during the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1886 and is the second longest railway tunnel in Ukraine.

It is a part of the fifth Pan-European Transport Corridor (Italy-Slovenia-Hungary-Slovakia-Ukraine-Russia).

More than 60% of transit goods to Western and Central Europe go from this tunnel.

Source: Dzerkalo Kolomyi