Vilnius railway station

  • Saint-Petersburg - Warsaw
  • Vilnius Baranovitchi

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The train station ( Lithuanian Geležinkelio Stotis ) of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius is located in the south of the city center. The train station also has a passenger railway station situated west of the freight depot. Here is the seat of the Lithuanian railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai, which is a state-owned company. There is also a bus station.

Compounds

Made from Vilnius train station from the following railway lines

  • Kaunas -Kaliningrad (Russia, only corridor trains from the Russian heartland, may not be entered into )
  • Šiauliai - Klaipėda
  • Daugavpils, Riga ( Latvia)
  • Varėna, the route Grodno ( Belarus ) is interrupted since 2004
  • Baranovitchi ( Belarus )
  • Minsk ( Belarus ), Moscow ( Russia)
  • The train station is next to the center of a S -Bahn -like electrified suburban railway traffic around the Lithuanian capital, including to Trakai.

The connection via Kaunas to Warsaw is no longer operated in long-distance transport. It run only regional trains between the border locations.

History

The Vilnius railway station was built as part of the construction of the Warsaw - Petersburg Railroad ( 1853-1862 ).

In 1861 the route was extended to a branch about Kaunas to Eydtkuhnen in East Prussia, in 1874 came the compound added to Minsk. After the First World War, the Lithuanian railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai was founded in 1919, which got its head office and its main workshops here. After the occupation of Vilna by Polish troops both moved to Kaunas, Vilnius became the provincial railway station in the network of Polskie Koleje Państwowe (PKP ) and seat of the railway department Wilno. All connections to the rest of Lithuania were suspended until 1938.

After the invasion of the Wehrmacht in Poland reached town and the train station back to Lithuania for the time being, which in turn was occupied in 1940 by the Soviet Union. During the Second World War, Vilnius was partly German, later occupied by the Soviets. After the Second World War, the Vilnius railway station remained in the power of the Baltic railway management of the railways of the Soviet Union.

Only after the restoration of independence of Lithuania Vilnius railway station was once the seat of the re-established Lietuvos Geležinkeliai. However, the remoteness of the capital brought near the now heavily backed as EU border state border with Belarus disadvantages: So the Kaunas train station in view is much centralized and convenient on future European transport corridors in North-Eastern Europe.

International trains run in most of the direct neighbors, some even beyond. The majority of these are around the corridor trains of the Kaliningrad oblast, Belarus, the Ukraine and the Russian mainland.

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