Novooleksiivka railway station () is a major junction railway station in

Novooleksiivka Novooleksiivka () is a rural settlement in Henichesk urban hromada, Henichesk Raion, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. It had a population of History In 1874 under the Russian Empire, a small railway station called Novooleksiivka was founded near a vi ...

, Ukraine. It is currently operated by Novorossiya Railway.

History

The station was opened on 14 October 1874 as part of the

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line. In 2014, the line to

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was closed due to the

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. Consequently, all lines that previously were linked to Crimea now end at this station. On 24 February 2022, the first day of the

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, Russian troops from occupied Crimea crossed the border and seized control of Novooleksiivka. On 8 March 2022, an armored Russian train was recorded by locals using the lines near the station. The train was widely believed to be the

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, which had previously participated in Russian military drills in Crimea in 2016. On 11 July 2023,

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channel describing an explosion at a Russian ammunition depot, a building that was previously the station's coal warehouse. The report outlined how the shells inside exploded over the course of roughly three hours. It was later revealed that the explosion was caused by a Ukrainian

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Trains

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– Novooleksiivka File:690f5326020a.jpg, One of the platforms

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