Prosiana. The V. V. Pryklonskyi Railway Station

A railway station is a line subdivision through which the railway's link with its users is carried out.  The V. V. Pryklonskyi Prosiana station is located in the settlement of Prosiana in the Synelnykove district of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Prosiana railway station, Dnipropetrovsk region

This freight-and-passenger station of the Krasnyi Lyman division of the Donetsk Railway sits at an equal distance between the stations of Chaplyne (12 km) and Demuryne (12 km).

 

Prosiana station. Looking west towards Chaplyne station

Prosiana station. Looking east towards Demuryne station

The station has been in operation since 1884, when the Synelnykove-Yasynuvata section of the Katerynynska Railway was opened, linking two industrial regions — the Donbas and the Kryvbas.

 

The opening of the station encouraged the extraction of the kaolin deposits and the building of the fireclay works and the kaolin plant.

 

Prosiana station. The lavatory and the service building

The track maintenance section

The railway dead end

Along with the enterprises, houses appeared in the station settlement on the southern side of the station building, belonging to the owners of the timber and goods warehouses and the oil depot, to the keeper of the coaching inn, to the postmaster and to the shopkeepers.

 

Prosiana station. The railway workers' dwelling houses

In 1882, under the direction of the engineer V. O. Tytov, a two-storey house was put up for the station staff. A brick ornament adorned the structure of hewn natural stone. The red framing of the windows and the openwork cornice around the perimeter of the building lend it refinement and singularity.

 

Prosiana station. A dwelling house for railway workers

The two-storey station building has single-storey annexes on two sides.

The railway station building of Prosiana station

Inside are the waiting hall and the technical services.

The ticket office is closed as unprofitable. In the waiting hall the heating works during the winter season.

Prosiana station. The ticket office is not working

An electronic clock and an air temperature indicator are mounted on the façade.

 

Prosiana station. The waiting hall

On the northern side of the station building there are 7 railway tracks and 2 passenger platforms.

Prosiana station. The side platform

Prosiana station. The island platform

The access track running in an easterly direction serves the freight traffic of the Prosiana grain elevator, and the one running west with a turn to the south that of the Prosiana kaolin plant.

 

At the petition of the Donetsk Railway and with the aim of perpetuating the name of its former head, in 2011 the station was named in honour of Viktor Vasyliovych Pryklonskyi. Memorial monoliths bearing the new name have been set up on both sides of the station building.

 

Signs «Prosiana Station named after Pryklonskyi 

There is a well on the station grounds.

 

In 2021 the station is served by passenger train No. 135/136 Kyiv-Avdiivka, regional train No. 826 Dnipro-Avdiivka, and the suburban trains running Dnipro-Mezhova, Chaplyne-Pokrovsk and Chaplyne-Avdiivka. 

The Chaplyne-Avdiivka suburban electric train at Prosiana station

Coordinates: 48°7’3"N 36°22’30"E

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This story is also available in Ukrainian: Просяна. Залізнична станція імені В. В. Приклонського