Rēzekne – Zilupe railway line
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 ChME3-5206 in Rēzekne II station
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| Route number : | 08 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 55 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1520 mm ( Russian gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 120 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Rēzekne – Zilupe railway is a railway line in Latvia and Russia . It has the Russian track width of 1520 mm, a length of around 55 km, is single-track and is not electrified. The route is owned and operated by Latvijas dzelzceļš .
history
The line was built in 1894 by the Moscow-Windau-Rybinsk Railway , which it operated as a private railway until the end of the Tsarist Empire in 1918. From 1918 to 1940 it was part of the network of what was then the Latvian State Railway Latvijas Valsts Dzelzsceļi (LVD), then until 1991 to the network of the Soviet State Railway SŽD .
As a result of the renewed Latvian independence, the Zilupe station was taken over by the Latvijas dzelzceļš , as was the case from 1919 to 1940, as the border station to Russia .
business
In 2013, two national passenger trains per day and direction ran from Riga via Rēzekne to Zilupe and back. The travel time from Rēzekne to Zilupe was around an hour. Friday to Monday and Wednesday, train 608P left Rēzekne at 1:54 p.m. and reached Zilupe at 2:56 p.m. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, train 608P left Rēzekne at 11:43 a.m. and reached Zilupe at 12:45 p.m. The second train, which runs on this route, ran at the same time every day: It left Rēzekne as train 616P at 8:41 pm and reached Zilupe at 9:43 pm. In the opposite direction, train 615P left Zilupe at 03:34 a.m. and reached Rēzekne at 04:38 a.m.
The second train left Zilupe at 3:20 p.m. and arrives at Rēzekne station at 4:24 p.m. All trains stopped at all stations en route. A night train ran from Riga to Moscow , which stopped in Rēzekne and Zilupe. <In addition, 17 freight trains ran, 15 of which crossed the border to Russia. (As of April 2013)
literature
- Herman Gjisbert Hesselink, Norbert Tempel : Railways in the Baltic States, Lok-Report publishing house, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-921980-51-8
Web links
- Tīkla pārskats 2017–2018. In: ldz.lv. January 16, 2017, p. 5 (route number), 7 (gauge) , accessed on July 8, 2019 (Latvian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://travel.ldz.lv/en/
- ↑ Network Statement 2013 ( Memento of May 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.93 MB)