Narrow-gauge railway Kushnitsa-Irshava-Beregovo opened December 23, 1908 At the time the territory of Transcarpathia (Subcarpathian Rus), was ruled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. According to reports, the first sections were opened Beregovo - Khmelnik - Irshava - Long and Khmelnik - Vinogradov. The original track width is 760 mm. The ceremony was attended by the Minister of Transport of the Hungarian Kingdom (part of the dual Austro-Hungarian Monarchy). In the early twentieth century, the legislative commission Berezskoy zhupy attracted to the construction of the facility of transport and social infrastructure as a means of population and settlements Borzhavski valley and shareholders paevikov. And the result - the railway faithfully served the community. In 1909 the site was open for a long - Kushnitsa. Before that, residents of Transcarpathia had to get, for example, in Irshava Beregovo day, and with the advent of the railroad this way was reduced to 2 hours. In 1912 began exploitation of forest section of the railroad - from a sawmill in this village long before the station Bron'ka (on the left bank of the river Borzhava), then - in an easterly direction into the mountains. His nickname was narrow-gauge railway on behalf of Anna, a very popular in the Carpathian foothills. "Antsya - Transcarpathian option diminutive form of the name. Almost 100 years kushnytska antsya "is about people, has carried tens of millions of tons of cargo and passengers. Until 1994 on narrow-gauge railway carried a very heavy traffic to the village Kushnitsa. Now they dismantled the rails, and now the locomotive with one carriage rides from the first Irshava Khmelnik the village, there still cling to him two cars and the train goes in the grapes. From this city to Chmelnik train runs five times a day - a very narrow-gauge railway needs residents of neighboring villages, the total population of nearly 15 thousand people. Especially a lot of passengers on Sunday - a market day, when all three cars packed to capacity.
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