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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 | [D] The "Rail Baltica" standard gauge [1435 mm] track crosses the border [interlaced with Broad gauge track [1520 mm] from Mockava [LG] to just south of Šeštokai] and continues in Lithuania parallel to the broad gauge until Kaunas station when it is partly interlaced to reach an Intermodal terminal at Palemonas [opened October 2020]. 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 - 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 | Note the former interchange island platform at Šeštokai (one platform face for each gauge) had been demolished by June 2016 so the through Kaunas 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had previously worked a daytime TLK service from Warszawa to the then limit of standard gauge track at Šeštokai until withdrawn on 15 December 2013.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. | 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had previously worked a daytime TLK service from Warszawa to the then limit of standard gauge track at Šeštokai until withdrawn on 15 December 2013.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 dealt with at Šeštokai. | ||
In March 2019 Rail Baltica announced when completed [estimated 2026] 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. | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
Revision as of 17:18, 8 January 2021
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 [interlaced with Broad gauge track [1520 mm] from Mockava [LG] to just south of Šeštokai] and continues in Lithuania parallel to the broad gauge until Kaunas station when it is partly interlaced to reach an Intermodal terminal at Palemonas [opened October 2020]. 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 - 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 through Kaunas 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 dealt with at Šeštokai.
In March 2019 Rail Baltica announced when completed [estimated 2026] 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.
