Narrow-gauge railways in Lithuania explained

Lithuania has 158.8 km of narrow-gauge railway lines remaining,[1] although only 68.4 km of them (serving five stations) are regularly used, employing 12 locomotives. They are included in the Registry of Cultural Property of Lithuania.[2]

gauge railways

gauge military railways

These railways were built during World War I by the German Empire at the gauge of, converted to gauge by the Lithuanian state railways, and expanded to a network of 111 km.

World War I 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) field railway from Dūkštas, (Lithuania) to Druja. After takeover by Poland, the PKP regauged the line to 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) in 1932. After World War II the large part of the line was in Belorussia, the railway closed in the 1970s.

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Notes and References

  1. http://home.zonnet.nl/p.engelbert/LIT.html
  2. http://www.siaurukas.eu/ Siaurukas