Kerch | |
Address: | Disputed: Kerch |
Line: | Port Krym—Dzhankoy main line |
Platform: | 4 (3 island platforms) |
Tracks: | 8 |
Parking: | Yes |
Opened: | 1900[1] |
Electrified: | No |
Code: | 47110[2] |
Owned: | Disputed:[3] |
Zone: | 0 |
Former: | Kerch-2 (1900—1970) |
Kerch Railway station (Russian: Керчь, Ukrainian: Керч, Crimean Tatar; Crimean Turkish: Keriç) is the main railway station of Kerch in Crimea, a territory recognized by a majority of countries as part of Ukraine, but de facto under control and administration of Russia.
The station can receive container shipments weighing up to 20 tons, and cargo, originating from ports of Kerch.The station is the destination of passenger and commuter trains on the line Vladislavovka—Port Krym. On other lines (Kerch — Kerch-South and Kerch — Port Krym) passenger traffic was from 2010 to 2014.
The station opened in 1900 as Kerch-2.
In 1970 renamed Kerch.
From 1 August 2014 Russian Railways restored passenger traffic on the line Kerch — Port Krym (passenger train Simferopol — Rostov-on-Don — Moscow).[4]