Train and Train stations, Kiev - Lviv

The fun isn't just in Kiev.  We went to Lviv via a night sleeper train.  Lviv will be covered in a separate chapter.  This the train ride itself.  Regretfully there were many pictures of the train at all.  But the train stations are pretty.

The train schedule was convenient, from 11 pm to 6 am.  Get on the train, lie down, get up, start a new day in Lviv.  That was the idea at least.  Sergei and I were in this 4 sleep suit.  Ended up only two of us there on that ride.  It was a $20 ride.  Yep, I didn't miss a zero.

Kiev Train Station, the main entrance.

Main entrance, shot from the main lobby.

The escalator to the second floor

On left side of the escalator.  See the schedule board?

Wall and ceiling to the right, once entering the main lobby.

Chandelier and part of the beautiful vaulted ceiling.

Second floor.  The people just got off the escalator, rushing to their platforms.

Same with the previous one, only from the opposite side of the hall (of the same end).  Confusing, right? What it is is that, escalator brings you up to the second floor, then you turn slight left or right to enter the hallway.

Down the hall, there will be access to the platforms on left and right.

Same as the prev, only on other side of the hallway. The middle are a bunch of stores.

Platform.  This is our train.  It was 11 pm at night.

A brighter shot of our train and the platform.  It was still 11 pm at night.  :-)

You can order tea on the train.  The attendant will bring to you.  It was 2.25 rph a cup.  What was interesting was on the way back from Lviv to Kiev, the tea was 4 rph.  Depending on the direction of the train going, it seems, :-)  The sugar it came with was slightly fancier, which was probably really why the difference.

Nice cup holders.  Good tea.  And it worked too.  I didn't sleep all that night.  Lying down on my sleeper nice and comfy, wide awake wondering why I drank all that caffeine.

Our train and the platform.  Only geographically shifted to Lviv, and temporally shifted to 6 am in the morning.  And I was about start my whole day of journey in a truly stylish town.

I couldn't record the music it played on the platform while I was taking this picture.  It was signature Soviet style revolutionary music, to me that is.  Sergei said it was just some regular music they play on the platform when trains arrive.  I usually do not argue with Sergei when it comes to how it is in Ukraine.
It was only short minute long clip.  But I loved it.

Main lobby exit / entrance.  It seems all train station lobbies are the same in Ukraine.

A bright shot here.

Lviv train station.

Lviv train station.

Last shot of the station.  We were head to downtown.