For construction works has been hired Ernest Goüin et Cie. company from Paris. To evolve complete national railway systems out of the cast-off strategic railways of Tsarist Russia was a task difficult of accomplishment. The importance of the railways to the Lithuanian can hardly be exaggerated, particularly of the lines leading to Memel, the country’s outlet to the Baltic Sea. In the early period of the new Republic the locomotive fuel was either firewood or shale oil in its raw state. By reason of her uniformity in the matter of rail gauge with Central and Western Europe, Lithuania is much less isolated than Estonia, though she is in a correspondingly bad position where the broad gauge countries are concerned. [From part 41, published 8 November 1935], [Read the previous article in this part]     [Read the next article in this part]. The museum consists of an indoor exhibition hall, a gallery and other interactive rooms. In 1851, the government of Russia made the decision to build the Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railway. Locomotives and vehicles of the former Prussian State Railways form the mainstay of the rolling stock. It is located in the building of the train station. Founded by a Danish king in 1219 and held successively by Danes, Germans, Swedes and Russians, its history is reflected in its architecture. At this point travellers formerly began the long south-westerly detour almost as far as the east Prussian border before their train again turned north-west to its destination on the Baltic Sea. Peat, also developed since the war, is consumed at power stations from which the current is taken all over Estonia. Though there are few expresses on the Estonian railways, and speed, judged by West European standards, is not high, railway travel is comfortable as well as inexpensive. This new line, just under seventy-nine miles in length, gives direct communication between Central Lithuania, including the capital city of Kaunas (Kovno) and Klaipeda, the important seaport on the Baltic coast. In 1851, the government of Russia made the decision to build the Warsaw – Saint Petersburg Railway. It may be thought that the Lithuanian State Railways are simply a counterpart of the Estonian system, in view, of the fact that practically the whole of their system formerly belonged to Russia. While Moscow wanted the document to be accessible and easy to buy, Vilnius attempted to keep control over the traffic through Lithuanian territory and right to refuse entry into its territory. Lithuanian Railways strengthens the ties with Poland: a new train from Vilnius to Warsaw and a joint freight transportation company in the plans In August LTG Cargo transported record amount of grain and recorded cargo growth Lithuanian Railways presented a modern image: after renewing the interior, the exterior also changes Leaving Pasvalys the line runs to Birzai, near the Latvian frontier. On Monday, the European Commission announced its decision to fine Lithuanian Railways more than 27 million for abusing its dominant position. Based on earlier DR1P. First class is provided on some international trains. They were followed by invading Russians. From Petseri to Valga the distance is sixty miles. carriages are comfortably fitted out. Ordinary Lithuanian rolling stock, similarly to the locomotives, is of essentially German design and construction, the passenger coaches consisting of modern and convenient corridor and compartment vehicles. This is museum is about history and present of Lithuanian railways. At peace after nearly six years of warfare, the Estonians began the work of reconstruction. The bigger saw-mills are in Tallinn, Narva, Pärnu, and Tartu, and boards and boxes are exported; the timber industry accounts for nearly half the goods traffic on the railways. Locomotives 2M62-0001 to 2M62-0752 are equipped with M62 headlights, 2M62-0756 or later are equipped with DM62 headlights, 2M62-565 or later is equipped with new snowploughs. SHALE OIL is the standard fuel for locomotives in Estonia and makes for economical working. By means of high-tension lines totalling ninety-six miles in length, and with the aid of thirty-eight transforming stations, power and light are supplied to a number of towns and to thousands of farms; this plant produces twenty-two per cent of the total output of the country. The line included a stretch from Daugavpils–Vilnius–Kaunas–Virbalis which was started in 1858 and finished in 1860. THE RAILWAY SYSTEM of Lithuania consists of 755. miles of standard gauge track and 317 miles of narrow-gauge rural light railways. The section from Lelle, being new, has shortened the route by many miles. 1520 mm track railways extend to the Baltic States and CIS, while 1435 mm track railways connect Lithuania with Poland and, through the latter, with West European states. The surrounding country is covered by forests, and the soil is such that fog and dew are unknown, so that the air is dry, and the resort is frequented by visitors in search of health. falls in this region are very beautiful. Lithuania length of rail lines was at level of 1,911 km in 2018, unchanged from the previous year. Line Mazeikiai (Lithuania) - Renge (Latvia) closed, removed from the map (Square B3). Through Memel also there is a large volume of imports, food, mainly herrings, clothing in the form of textile goods, and large quantities of machinery. Lithuania passenger rail map Lithuanian passenger railway services scheme with times necessary to get between stations marked. The length of railway lines in Lithuania totals 1868,8 km including 1520 mm track-1745.8 km and 1435 mm track – 123 km. The standard to achieve is dual track 240 km/h design speed electrified railway line from Polish/Lithuanian border to Kaunas, from Kaunas reaching Vilnius and Riga. Nearly 170 of these are built to the standard gauge. In Estonia the passenger may have to be content with one small window, from which it is difficult to watch the passing scenery; nevertheless the carriages are comfortable. The Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania is a government agency, which participates in the shaping of national policy in the field of management and use of documents and archives, as well as implements this policy, supports the Chief Archivist of Lithuania in the carrying-out of state administration of the field of documents and archives. The population in 1935 was over 140,000, the next largest towns being Tartu with 58,600, Narva with 23,200, and Pärnu with 20,700 inhabitants. Just like with many other things, it would have been better to have a single standardized gauge everywhere, but, for historical reasons, different countries use different gauges. Read more. After years of warfare the Estonians were faced with the grim necessity of evolving a modern railway system from the ruins of the old. You can read more on “Poland’s Main Lines”, “Russia and Siberia” and “The State Lines of Latvia” on this website. Subclasses 2M62K and 2M62M have new engines. The steam locomotives are almost equally divided between broad and narrow gauges. These lines are operated by some 245 locomotives, of which 169 are on the standard gauge main lines. Since the war a new broad-gauge line has been built from Tartu south-east to Petseri (fifty-four miles), which is on the international line from Valga to Pskov, in Russia, the Estonian border town being Irboska, fourteen miles from Petseri. During the war Russian soldiers burnt many of the trees which made up its thirty miles of avenues, but these have been replanted and the resort has recovered its former aspect of trees and flowers. A NEW RAILWAY BRIDGE over the Pärnu River. An unusual 2-4-4 tank locomotive built at Prague by the Skoda works. The shale is worked in open and underground mines, operated by the Government and by private companies. Memorializing History’s Dark Corners With Absurdity Keith Lowe Visits Lithuania's Grutas Park ... Grūtas Park in Lithuania contains a collection of monuments dedicated to some of the greatest monsters of the 20th century, including a statue of Joseph Stalin. As the country is part of the Great European Plain it does not present many difficulties to the railway engineer. Valga, 169 miles from Tallinn, is the frontier station and is known as Valga E. The frontier runs through a house in the town, as stated in the chapter “Stations and Their Story”, which begins on page 758. In 1933-34 the railways showed a credit balance and were beginning to pay their way after a few years of depression. the Lithuanian railways); no single Lithuanian railway passenger died during the last fifteen years, etc. By using EU financing, the project will be completed until 2022. Tour the capital, Vilnius, and stroll the cobblestone streets of Old Town. The next significant era of its existence saw Lithuania as a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Since 1919, 362 bridges, sixty-five stations, and 255 miles of new lines have been constructed in Estonia. In 2006 Lithuanian Railways transported 6.2 million passengers and 50 million tonnes of freight. Say hello to the only railway museum in Lithuania – its situated in Vilnius, at the city’s train station and it offers a thorough look into the past of the country’s railways. The routes from London are via Harwich, Flushing, Berlin and Riga, via Dover, Calais, Brussels and Berlin, and via Dover, Ostend, Brussels, and Berlin; all the lines pass through the Latvian capital of Riga. In summer steamers go from Narva to the resort of Narva-Jõesuu, at the mouth of the river, about an hour’s journey. As one-fifth of the country is covered by forests the timber industry employs many hands Coniferous trees are worked up in sawmills and pulp mills, birch is used for plywood and cabinet making, and aspen is made into matches. On the Baltic this was at first impossible, as the German stock would not run on the 5 ft gauge lines. Date of experience: April 2018. Above is a 2-8-0 engine, one of the some hundred locomotives in operation on the narrow gauge lines. Snowplough and headlights are the same as later 2M62 have. There was no alternative to converting the entire system of main lines to standard 4 ft 8½ in gauge. The tedious journey, over lines arranged in the form of a letter S is now obviated. The development of Estonian railways has proceeded methodically and without interruption since the formation of the Republic. In the old days of the Great Western broad gauge in England, the difference was too great to allow for anything of this kind to be evolved in a practical form even had it occurred to anyone. In 1920, Poland seized the city and territories of Vilna (Wilno), with their considerable mileage of railway. Another line goes east from Lelle to Türi (ten miles) and then north-east to Tamsalu, where it links with the trunk line from Tallinn to Tartu, as stated earlier in this chapter. The city of Tartu lies in the deep valley of the Emajõgi River, which flows from Lake Wõrtsjärv to Lake Peipus, and before the war was known as Dorpat. 3-car formation adapted from DR1A. Moisaküla is also the junction for a line, forty-two miles long, to Valk, in Latvia, but this line crosses the frontier south of the. Tallinn lies on the north coast; Narva, in the east, is near the Russian frontier, and on the broad gauge line to Leningrad. Kovno forms an interesting link with Napoleon’s “Grande Armée”, which, on June 23, 1812, reached the left bank of the Niemen opposite the city. Instead, therefore, of making invidious comparisons between them and the big systems of Western Europe, we should rather applaud, and indeed wonder at, the magnificent way in which their respective administrations have evolved complete order out of the chaos caused by the Russian retreat, the pre-war Russian methods, and the sad disintegration caused by war conditions. It is ninety miles from Tallinn on the narrow-gauge system, and is connected with Valga and with Latvia by other lines. Thanks to Stefan Bartholomae. The distance from Tallinn to Narva is 130 miles on this broad-gauge line Tallinn is a city of steeples and towers, and has railway, sea, and air communications with the rest of Europe. As there is no coal in the country the development of the industry of extracting oil from shale has solved the fuel problem of the railways. Check it out here! Subclass 2M62UM have new engines. From Türi a narrow-gauge line goes south to Moisaküla (sixty miles), and then north-west to Pärnu (ninety-three miles) connecting at Riisselja (seventy-six miles) with another line, thirty miles long, which goes south-west to the coast at Ikla on the border of Latvia. The Germans were defeated, an armistice was signed, and a peace treaty was made with Russia on February 2, 1920. Other industries were begun after the war, including those manufacturing chocolate, sweets, biscuits, and cigarettes. Lithuania Rail Travel Map showing major locations and routes through the country. This city is built in picturesque surroundings on a tongue of land between the Viliya and the Niemen, where the river banks are about 200 ft high. It was not revealed how many geese paid for one engine, but, bearing in mind the price of even a small tank engine, the cackling army must have been. In 1991, the railways of the Baltic region were once again divided into separate railway companies. On February 24, 1919, Tallinn, the capital, was freed from Russian Communist troops and independence was proclaimed. Not only did this lessen the extent of the Lithuanian system, but it also cut a piece out of it, to the great inconvenience of that which remained, for the through Lithuanian line of communications was severed by the “revised” Polish frontier. These rail-cars augment the ordinary train services and are capable of fairly high speeds. [4] A 179 km 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) narrow gauge network, listed as an object of cultural heritage, was split off into a separate company Aukštaitijos Siaurasis Geležinkelis in 2001. Oil shale is still used in a pulverized form for goods engines, but passenger locomotives burn oil produced from the shale. The railway system consists of 755 miles of standard gauge railway, together with 317 miles of narrow gauge rural light railways. Rapla, thirty-four miles south of Tallinn, is the junction for various towns on this system, which serves the country south and south-west of the capital. Now and then in the newspapers, we read about trade being carried on by barter between certain European countries, but it may occasion surprise to learn that a recent batch of narrow-gauge locomotives, ordered from the Czechoslovakian Skoda Works by the Lithuanian State Railways, were paid for with their value in native Lithuanian geese. Of the 422 passenger train vehicles, over 300 are standard gauge, while of goods vehicles there are over 3,900 standard gauge and about 500 narrow-gauge wagons and vans. The tunnel's diameter has the shape of a horseshoe. Most of the trains take second- and third-class passengers. Above the town the falls of the river provide power for a big cotton and flax spinning factory. A new line, sixty miles long, has been constructed from Rapla to Virtsu Sadam, which is on the coast about midway between Haapsalu and Pärnu. Trains in Lithuania are mainly operated by AB 'LG Keleiviams'. But the Russians had a trump card, namely, the break of gauge. It was founded in 1228 by the Order of the Knights and contains the ruins of a castle. The mud is a soft pulpy mass bluish grey in colour, and its curative properties are due principally to sulphuric compositions. The water of the sheltered bay often has a temperature of between 70 and 80 degrees F, which is almost that of the ocean in the tropics, and the climate in summer is mild, the temperature varying but little. © Railway Wonders of the World 2012-20  |  Contents  |  Site Map  |  Contact Us at info@railwaywondersoftheworld.com. The times are approximate but fast and slow trains in Lithuania do not deviate that much from each other, so you shouldn't expect the real travel time to be more than 20% longer or shorter than specified here. It is believed that, at any rate as far as the State Railway is concerned, there is not a single 4-4-0 express locomotive at work in Germany to-day, following upon the comprehensive scheme of standardization carried out since the war. 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