Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) - Lines with Obscure or Sparse passenger services
Introduction
This list is based on 2007/2008 timetable information. Standard abbreviations used are explained in General Information. For details of recent history, please refer to Kaliningrad Oblast General Information.
Obscure services
[Braniewo PKP] – Mamonovo - Kaliningrad
[1] RU08/1
The daily cross border service from Poland is on standard gauge track and takes a totally different route between a junction to the north of Golubevo and Kaliningrad compared to the Broad Gauge RŽD services from Mamonovo. The standard gauge service arrives at the east end of the station, the broad gauge into the west.
Kaliningrad Severnyj
[22/24] RU08/2
Historically the terminus station of lines from the North and North East. The platforms are at the end of a 0.5km line at a higher level in comparison to the adjacent platform on the through line to Kaliningrad Main station and it is used in summer and near or on Public Holidays [for example 1 May] by additional trains between Kaliningrad Severnyy and Svetlogorsk II. The extras in the timetable period 2007/2008 are:-
6711 | 13:25 Kaliningrad-Severnyj - Svetlogorsk II | ||
E | SSuO | 7043 | 14:11 Kaliningrad-Severnyj - Svetlogorsk II |
E | SSuO | 7045 | 18:08 Kaliningrad-Severnyj - Svetlogorsk II |
6706 | Svetlogorsk II - 12:04 Čkalovsk-Zapadnyj – Kaliningrad-Severnyj | ||
E | SSuO | 7042 | 13:11 Svetlogorsk II – Kaliningrad-Severnyj |
E | SSuO | 7044 | 15:08 Svetlogorsk II – Kaliningrad-Severnyj |
Other sparse services
The following lines have few trains (relative to service levels generally in this country) - fewer than three trains each way on at least three days a week - or do not run each weekday.
8 | Černjachovsk – Železnodorožnyj |
14 | Kaliningrad-Severnyj – Sovetsk |
18 | Černjachovsk – Sovetsk |
Deletions since last edition
RU07/3 | Muromskoye - Zelenogradsk avoiding curve – Sokoľniki-1: no service since 2004. |
RU07/4 | Zapadnyj-Novyj – Kaliningrad-Severnyj: no service since 2006. Train 6402, which previously used this route, is now routed directly into Kaliningrad main station. |