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==(Lida -) Benjakonī/Беняконі BČ - Stasylos LG (- Vilnius)==
==(Lida -) Benjakonī/Беняконі BČ - Stasylos LG (- Vilnius)==
[D] The Vilnius - Simferopoľ summer service ceased at the end of summer 2008. Plans exist to create a new border station at the larger town of Šalčininkai 4 km south of Stasylos and to extend domestic services there, but no dates have been set. As part of a future relaxation of visa requirements, there are plans to introduce two trains each way per day between Vilnius and Lida. Still no service at December 2011.
[D] The Vilnius - Simferopoľ summer service ceased at the end of summer 2008. On 5 December 2011 a new border station was opened at the new (resited) Stasylos station, 1.3 km north of the former Šalčininkai halt and 5.5 km from the border. Cross border passenger traffic will resume, at the latest when the planned abolition of visa requirements for citizens of the border region comes into effect. However, there were still no service as at January 2012.


==Parėččė BČ - Senove LG (- Vilnius)==
==Parėččė BČ - Senove LG (- Vilnius)==

Revision as of 18:58, 5 February 2012

All rail routes between this pair of countries are 1520mm gauge.

Adutiškis BČ - Gudeliai LG (- Didžiasalis)

[D] Line closed and lifted. Formerly carried through Lithuanian trains between Pabrade (see next item) and Didžiasalis, but these ceased in 2001.

Lyntupy BČ - Geledne LG (- Pabrade)

[D] Line closed and lifted. Formerly carried through Lithuanian trains between Pabrade and Didžiasalis (see previous item), but these ceased in 2001.

(Maladzečna -) Hudagaj BČ - Kena LG (- Vilnius)

[D] Trains between Vilnius and Minsk, and long distance services between Kaliningrad and various cities in Russia.

(Lida -) Benjakonī/Беняконі BČ - Stasylos LG (- Vilnius)

[D] The Vilnius - Simferopoľ summer service ceased at the end of summer 2008. On 5 December 2011 a new border station was opened at the new (resited) Stasylos station, 1.3 km north of the former Šalčininkai halt and 5.5 km from the border. Cross border passenger traffic will resume, at the latest when the planned abolition of visa requirements for citizens of the border region comes into effect. However, there were still no service as at January 2012.

Parėččė BČ - Senove LG (- Vilnius)

[D] Line closed and cut at the border. LG works local passenger services as far as Marcinkonys. The line is out of use south of here. Formerly carried through Lithuanian trains between Vilnius and Druskininkai, but these ceased in 2001. It is reported that BČ operates trains to a platform just before the border at "Užberež" ("km99").

Parėččė BČ - Černuha LG (- Druskininkai)

[D] Line closed and lifted at Druskininkai. Formerly carried through Lithuanian trains between Vilnius and Druskininkai, but these ceased in 2001. Until 2008 BČ operated trains at weekends to a platform just before the border at "km7".

See also