Train No. 143 Sumy-Rakhiv. Ammendorf compartment car and platzkart car. View from the window

Train No. 143 Sumy-Rakhiv connects Sumy Oblast (5 stations), Chernihiv Oblast (2 stations), the capital of our country, Vinnytsia Oblast (2 stations), Khmelnytskyi Oblast (1 station), Ternopil Oblast (1 station), Lviv Oblast (2 stations), Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (6 stations) and Zakarpattia Oblast (3 stations).

 

Train No. 143 Sumy-Rakhiv

Departure from Sumy station on even-numbered dates at 19.01, arrival at the terminal station on odd-numbered dates at 18.10. The journey time is 23 hours 9 minutes.

 

The route runs along the tracks of the Southern Railway, the South-Western Railway, and the Lviv Railway. The number of stops is 23: Bilopillia, Vorozhba-Pasazhyrska, Putyvl, Konotop, Bakhmach-Pasazhyrskyi, Nizhyn, Brovary, Darnytsia, Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi, Koziatyn-1, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil-Pasazhyrskyi, Lviv, Khodoriv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Nadvirna, Deliatyn, Yaremche, Tatariv, Vorokhta, Yasinia, Kvasy. In Nizhyn the stop lasts 25 minutes, and the rolling stock of train No. 142 Chernihiv-Ivano-Frankivsk is coupled to train No. 143. In Lviv, where passenger traffic is heavy, the stop lasts 20 minutes. The same applies in Ivano-Frankivsk: at the terminal station of train No. 142, the cars that ran from Chernihiv are uncoupled. In Yaremche, the boarding and alighting of travelers with hiking gear takes 19 minutes. The passenger rolling stock is serviced by a crew of railway workers from the city of Sumy.

Interior of the Ammendorf compartment car.

Interior of the platzkart car.