It lies on the territory of six oblasts of Ukraine: Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad and Vinnytsia. Odessa railways account for about 20% of freight and more than 16% of passenger traffic of Railways of Ukraine. In the region of Odessa Railways there are large sea and river ports, which ensure high traffic load.
The first section of the Odessa railways from Odessa to Birsoy with a branch from Rozdilna to Kuchurhan and with a branch to the quarantine Wharf entered into force3 December 1865. Next 13 years of the Odessa railways existed as an independent mechanism, and then became part of the joint stock companySouthwestern Railways. First Odessa railway station was near the Alexis area. Sergei Witte and Odessa entrepreneurs have shown interest in the organization of freight traffic between major enterprises of the city, also put forward the idea of building branches in important to the city's defense of the military unit. Was built by the Slobodka-Romanovka branch in the port of Odessa, and later in the most important industrial area of the city — Peresyp, which further marked the beginning of kolosovskogo direction. With the growth of passenger traffic, it was decided to build trains, local traffic Razdelnaya railway station, and using existing wrap station only long-distance trains. Dead-end station was built in 1884 in the region of the Italian Boulevard and the adjacent part of which was rebuilt in station square, and was named "Small station", and the existing one was called "the Big station". Also the route was built to service the military units located on the coast between the Middle Fountain and Lustgarten, later demolished in the 1930s. Constructed branch pomichna — podgorodnoe to pair with a vast hive of narrow gauge Railways of Vinnytsia. Then begins the construction of a branch line to service the Balts. Due to the difficult terrain the railroad was constructed a few kilometers South of the city, and around the station Balta rose village belino. Building a direct road connection between the city and the station required a large volume of earthworks. It was conducted a few years and for Oceania investment travel on the road for several more years after construction was paid.
Independent Ukraine
In 1992 Odessa railway became part of the national company "Ukrzaliznytsya". Further electrified the plot Kotovsk — Rozdilna, allowing you to increase the circulation of the electric rolling stock and reorganize the traffic on DWS. Also electrified branch line Odessa-Peresyp — Odessa-Port. Commissioned plots pomichna — Kotovsk — Lobed, Vapniarka — Kotovsk — Lobed, Kuchurhan — Rozdilna, pour — Odessa-Port. The length of electrified lines becomes 1708 km. Stops passenger traffic on the branch Baraboi — Ovidiopol. After the completion of the electrification of the Odessa site begins mass write locomotives M62.
