I took night train #105K from Kyiv to Odessa, Ukraine. It cost 124 Ukrainian gryvna, or about $15 for a second-class sleeper, and it took about 10 hours to reach Odessa.
It was a hot evening in Kiev, even hotter inside the train. So hot that I had to get out and wait on the platform just to get air. Our wagon was old and had no windows that opened.
Inside had red-leatherette bunks, fake wood paneling and funny old Russian switches and light fixtures. Unfortunately I was too hot and tired to take any photos.
It was a four-berth compartment, but I shared it with only one other person: Vesna, a Ukrainian flight attendant who worked on corporate jets and spoke good English. My bunk was facing backwards so she kindly switched with me. We talked about travel and about Odessa, where she lived. Unlike me, Vesna loved Kiev and said she found something new every time she went there.
Bedding was the usual inadequate mattress pad and sqooshy wonderful pillow.
The toilet in this old wagon was not nearly as nice as the one in train #92, but it was adequate and not too disgusting, and there was paper.
Once again I didn’t sleep well on the hard bunk, but all the same it didn’t seem long until we reached Odessa.
The first thing I saw when stepping out of the train was this, the Odessa train station:
Odessa train station
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