Latający Wilnianin (English: Flying Wilnianin) was the popular name of a passenger train which in the interbellum period linked Warsaw with Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania). Another name for that train was Gwiazda Północy (The Star of the North).[1]
In 1919, it took around 20 hours for a train to cross the distance of 423 kilometers between Warszawa Zachodnia (Warsaw West) and the station in Wilno. In 1939, this distance was crossed in 5 hours and 45 minutes. In the summer of 1939, the fast train left Warsaw daily at 9:05 to arrive at Wilno at 14:50.[2] A second daily train between the two cities left Warsaw West at 16:41 and arrived at Wilno at 22:31.[2]
The trains, both of which finished routes at then-border station of Turmont - Zemgale, Latvia, stopped at the following stations:
a Wilnianin - Polish for inhabitant of Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania).