Vicșani (Ukrainian: Вікшань) is a railway station near the town of Siret in Suceava County of northern Romania, 7km south of the Ukrainian border, on the line north from Bucharest.
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The station functions as the border control point for crossings between Romania and the border transit station at Vadul-Siret railway station (Ukrainian: Вадул-Сірет) in Ukraine with immigration and customs controls. After crossing the border, trains can use gauge change equipment at Vadul-Siret to change from standard gauge to Ukrainian wide gauge of 1520mm.
Vicșani railway station serves the Căile Ferate Române Line 500.
In November 2022 as part of a joint Romania–Ukraine programme to provide extra rail capacity following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, six standard gauge and seven broad gauge tracks were reopened for traffic.[1]
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