Kaunas train station
| Kaunas | |
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 7th |
| IBNR | 2400050 |
| opening | 1862 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Kaunas |
| Borough | Municipality of Kaunas |
| district | Kaunas |
| Country | Lithuania |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 53 '11 " N , 23 ° 55' 53" E |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Lithuania | |
The Kaunas railway station is an important railway station in Lithuania . Between the First World War and the Second World War , the seat of the Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai - the national Lithuanian railway company - was located here .
history
Kaunas received its rail connection in 1862 with the construction of the Landwarow – Eydtkuhnen line ( Lentvaris - Tschernyschewskoje ), a connecting line between the Warsaw-Petersburg Railway and the main line of the Prussian Eastern Railways . This connection was of international importance right from the start, including the Nord-Express , which stopped in Kaunas. The importance of the station increased between the world wars when Kaunas was the provisional capital and the Lithuanian railways were based here.
After the Soviet occupation, the station was only of minor importance in the large network of Soviet railways. The route towards Vilnius was electrified and a bypass route was built east of the city.
After regaining independence, the railways in Lithuania played a major role, especially in the transit of goods. The importance of passenger transport decreased significantly. Nevertheless, Kaunas train station has an important transport planning significance, as Kaunas is more favorable to the transport corridors through the Baltic States than the capital Vilnius , which is close to the EU's external border with Belarus and thus in a kind of "dead angle".
The corridor trains from Russia / CIS to the Kaliningrad Oblast run through Kaunas . Those who stop at Kaunas train station have the opportunity to get off or on. All others use the bypass route.
The international connection to Warsaw was canceled, but since June 2016 there has been a direct regional train connection to Bialystok in Poland again on weekends , operated by the Polish railway company Przewozy Regionalne .
In the future it is planned to run the high-speed Rail Baltica connection from Warsaw to Helsinki via Kaunas.
See also
- Kaunas railway bridge
- Timetable and ticket sales for the weekend connection Bialystok (Poland) to Kaunas. (As of September 2016)
literature
- Herman Gijsbert Hesselink, Norbert Tempel: Railways in the Baltic States . Working group LOK Report, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-921980-51-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rail Baltica: Bialystok - Kaunas route set to open for rail passenger transport in June - Think Railways. (No longer available online.) In: www.think-railways.com. Archived from the original on September 20, 2016 ; accessed on September 5, 2016 .