{"id":412923,"date":"2025-09-10T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412923\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:43:20","slug":"ukraine-launches-first-eu-gauge-rail-link-in-historic-step-for-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/412923\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine launches first EU-gauge rail link in \u2018historic step for integration\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ukraine has launched its first railway line built to the European standard gauge, linking Uzhhorod and Chop on the country\u2019s western border. The 22 km stretch, funded equally by the EU and the European Investment Bank, marks \u2018a historic step\u2019 in Ukraine\u2019s integration with the European rail network while war continues to weigh on the country\u2019s transport system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSubscribe to gain access to all news<\/p>\n<p>Already have a subscription? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railtech.com\/login\/?redirect_to=%2Finfrastructure%2F2025%2F09%2F10%2Fukraine-launches-first-eu-gauge-rail-link-in-historic-step-for-integration%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tChoose your subscription<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tWant to read this article for free?<\/p>\n<p>You can read <strong>one free article per month<\/strong>. Enter your email and we&#8217;ll send you a free link to access the full article. No payment required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine has launched its first railway line built to the European standard gauge, linking Uzhhorod and Chop on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[141908,141909,2000,299,1699,133423,141910,141911,141912,141913,657,141914,141915,141916],"class_list":{"0":"post-412923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-chop","9":"tag-connecting-europe-facility","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-european-investment-bank","14":"tag-gert-jan-koopman","15":"tag-magda-kopczynska","16":"tag-oleksandr-pertsovskyi","17":"tag-teresa-czerwinska","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-ukraine-facility","20":"tag-ukrzaliznytsia","21":"tag-uzhhorod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115179592332461133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}