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==(Šeštokai -) Mockava LG - Trakiszki PKP (- Suwałki)== | ==(Šeštokai -) Mockava LG - Trakiszki PKP (- Suwałki)== | ||
[D] The "Rail Baltica" standard gauge [1435 mm] track crosses the border with Broad gauge track [1520 mm] as far south as Mockava [LG] | [D] The "Rail Baltica" standard gauge [1435 mm] track crosses the border with Broad gauge interlaced track [1520 mm] as far south as Mockava [LG] from just south of Šeštokai. A limited weekend standard gauge passenger service between Białystok and Kaunas commenced on 17 June 2016 operated by PKP diesel units. Despite various periods of suspension due to Covid-19, it was planned to introduce a daily Białystok and Kaunas service from 1 January 2021! | ||
Note the former interchange island platform at Šeštokai (one platform face for each gauge) had been demolished by June 2016 so the above trains could only call at Šeštokai from 6 October 2017 after a platform on new standard gauge tracks on the west side of the station had been completed. | |||
Standard gauge tracks currently reach Kaunas but in March 2019 Rail Baltica announced it proposed to run six daytime trains between Warszawa and either Tallinn or Vilnius, plus overnight Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas – Warszawa – Berlin and Vilnius – Kaunas – Warszawa – Berlin trains when the line opens in 2026. | PKP had previously worked a daytime TLK service from Warszawa to the then limit of standard gauge track at Šeštokai until withdrawn on 15 December 2013. From 29 October 2000 to 28 May 2005 there was a through overnight passenger train between Warszawa and Vilnius with 25AN/S bogied coaches equipped with 'SUW2000' variable gauge wheelsets which used gauge changing equipment at Mockava. This GC is believed to have been removed with all transhipment of freight at Šeštokai. | ||
Standard gauge tracks currently reach Kaunas but in March 2019 Rail Baltica announced it proposed when completed further that they plan to run six daytime trains between Warszawa and either Tallinn or Vilnius, plus overnight Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas – Warszawa – Berlin and Vilnius – Kaunas – Warszawa – Berlin trains when the line opens in 2026. | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 13:29, 16 December 2020
Note that there is a one hour time difference between Lithuania and Poland
(Šeštokai -) Mockava LG - Trakiszki PKP (- Suwałki)
[D] The "Rail Baltica" standard gauge [1435 mm] track crosses the border with Broad gauge interlaced track [1520 mm] as far south as Mockava [LG] from just south of Šeštokai. A limited weekend standard gauge passenger service between Białystok and Kaunas commenced on 17 June 2016 operated by PKP diesel units. Despite various periods of suspension due to Covid-19, it was planned to introduce a daily Białystok and Kaunas service from 1 January 2021!
Note the former interchange island platform at Šeštokai (one platform face for each gauge) had been demolished by June 2016 so the above trains could only call at Šeštokai from 6 October 2017 after a platform on new standard gauge tracks on the west side of the station had been completed.
PKP had previously worked a daytime TLK service from Warszawa to the then limit of standard gauge track at Šeštokai until withdrawn on 15 December 2013. From 29 October 2000 to 28 May 2005 there was a through overnight passenger train between Warszawa and Vilnius with 25AN/S bogied coaches equipped with 'SUW2000' variable gauge wheelsets which used gauge changing equipment at Mockava. This GC is believed to have been removed with all transhipment of freight at Šeštokai.
Standard gauge tracks currently reach Kaunas but in March 2019 Rail Baltica announced it proposed when completed further that they plan to run six daytime trains between Warszawa and either Tallinn or Vilnius, plus overnight Tallinn – Riga – Kaunas – Warszawa – Berlin and Vilnius – Kaunas – Warszawa – Berlin trains when the line opens in 2026.
