Jonava train station

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Jonava
Reception building
Reception building
Data
Location in the network Separation station
IBNR 2400187
opening 1871
location
City / municipality Jonava
Rajong Parish Kaunas Rajong Parish
district Kaunas
Country Lithuania
Coordinates 55 ° 5 '35 "  N , 24 ° 16' 33"  E Coordinates: 55 ° 5 '35 "  N , 24 ° 16' 33"  E
Railway lines
List of train stations in Lithuania
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The jonava railway station is a railway station in the city of Jonava in Kaunas in Lithuania . It is located on the Kaišiadorys – Liepāja railway line and is the starting point of a branch line to Kaunas. Thus, it is a junction on the railway connection from the Latvian Liepāja ( Libau ) to the Lithuanian capital Vilnius ( Wilna ) and to Kaunas. The station is operated by the Lithuanian railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai .

history

The station building was built in 1871 by the Libau-Romny-Bahn . At that time there were direct connections to Saint Petersburg and Liepāja . During the Soviet era there were trains to Lvov ( Lemberg ) in what is now Ukraine .

literature

  • Herman Gijsbert Hesselink, Norbert Tempel: Railways in the Baltic States . Working group LOK Report, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-921980-51-8 .

Web links

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