Vilnius railway station
| Vilnius | |
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 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 11 |
| IBNR | 2400008 |
| opening | September 4, 1860 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Vilnius |
| Borough | Vilnius Municipality |
| district | Vilnius |
| Country | Lithuania |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 40 '13 " N , 25 ° 17' 4" E |
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| List of train stations in Lithuania | |
The station ( Lithuanian geležinkelio stotis ) of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius is located in the south of the city center. A freight yard to the west of the passenger station also belongs to the station . Here is the seat of the Lithuanian railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai , which is a state-owned company . There is also a bus station .
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The following train lines are available from Vilnius train station:
- Kaunas - Kaliningrad ( Russia , only corridor trains from the Russian heartland that cannot be boarded)
- Šiauliai - Klaipeda
- Daugavpils - Riga ( Latvia )
- Varėna , the route to Hrodna ( Belarus ) has been interrupted since 2004
- Baranavichy (Belarus)
- Minsk (Belarus) - Moscow (Russia)
- The station is also the center of an S-Bahn -like electrified suburban railway traffic around the Lithuanian capital, u. a. after Trakai .
The connection via Kaunas to Warsaw is no longer served by long-distance traffic. Only regional trains run between the border towns.
history
The Vilnius station was built as part of the construction of the Warsaw-Petersburg Railway (1853–1862).
In 1861 the line was extended by a branch via Kaunas to Eydtkuhnen in East Prussia , and in 1874 the connection to Minsk was added. After the First World War , the Lithuanian railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai was founded in 1919 , with its headquarters and main workshops here. After the occupation of Vilnius by Polish troops, both were moved to Kaunas, Vilnius became a provincial train station in the network of Polskie Koleje Państwowe (PKP) and the seat of the Wilno Railway Directorate . All connections to the rest of Lithuania were interrupted until 1938.
After the attack by the Wehrmacht on Poland, the town and train station were temporarily returned to Lithuania, which in turn was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940 . During the Second World War , Vilnius was temporarily occupied by Germany and later by the Soviets again. After the Second World War, the Vilnius station remained in the network of the Baltic Railway Directorate of the railways of the Soviet Union .
Only after Lithuania regained independence did the Vilnius train station become the seat of the re-established Lietuvos Geležinkeliai . However, the outskirts of the capital, close to the state border with Belarus, which has now been strongly secured as the EU external border, has disadvantages: Kaunas station is much more central and cheaper with regard to future European transport corridors in northeastern Europe .
International trains run to most of the direct neighbors, some even beyond. Most of these are corridor trains from Kaliningrad Oblast to Belarus , Ukraine and the Russian heartland .