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==(Lida -) Bieniakonī/Benyakone (Беняконі/Беняконе) BČ - Stasylos LG (- Vilnius)== | ==(Lida -) Bieniakonī/Benyakone (Беняконі/Беняконе) BČ - Stasylos LG (- Vilnius)== | ||
[D] | [D] Freight only since the one train each way at weekends only between Hrodna/Гродна and Vilnius reintroduced from 6 June 2015 with no advertised stop between Vilnius and the Belarus border was withdrawn from 14 November 2015. Previously the LG internal passenger service had been extended to a new (re-sited) Stasylos station, 1.3 km north of the former Šalčininkai halt and 5.5 km from the border from 5 December 2011 but this was withdrawn on 1 January 2015. A through Vilnius - Simferopoľ summer service had ceased at the end of summer 2008. | ||
LG closed this border crossing from 16 February 2023 due to alleged smuggling of goods to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad with Lithuanian customs officials advising this decision was linked to the lack of x-ray systems at the border. No timescale was given but the Lithuanian Minister of Internal Affairs was quoted in Lithuanian media that it would re-open once two scanners are installed. | |||
==Parečča/Porech'e (Парэчча/ Поречье) BČ - Senove LG (- Vilnius)== | ==Parečča/Porech'e (Парэчча/ Поречье) BČ - Senove LG (- Vilnius)== | ||
Revision as of 14:37, 16 February 2023
All rail routes between this pair of countries are 1520mm gauge.
Haduciški/Godutishki (Гадуцішкі/Годутишки) BČ - Adutiškis 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/Lyntupy (Лынтупы/Лынтупы) 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.
(Maladziečna -) Hudahaj/Gudogay (Гудагай/Гудогай) BČ - Kena LG (- Vilnius)
[E] BČ operates all cross border freight and loco hauled passenger trains to Kena. 25kv AC operation of freight traffic started on 6 September 2017, followed by passenger services on 10 December 2017.
The line was used by trains between Vilnius and Minsk, and long distance services between Kaliningrad and various cities in Russia. All services between Vilnius and Minsk have been suspended since at least December 2021. The Kaliningrad trains are thought to be still running as at autumn 2022 but have no public stop within Lithuania.
(Lida -) Bieniakonī/Benyakone (Беняконі/Беняконе) BČ - Stasylos LG (- Vilnius)
[D] Freight only since the one train each way at weekends only between Hrodna/Гродна and Vilnius reintroduced from 6 June 2015 with no advertised stop between Vilnius and the Belarus border was withdrawn from 14 November 2015. Previously the LG internal passenger service had been extended to a new (re-sited) Stasylos station, 1.3 km north of the former Šalčininkai halt and 5.5 km from the border from 5 December 2011 but this was withdrawn on 1 January 2015. A through Vilnius - Simferopoľ summer service had ceased at the end of summer 2008.
LG closed this border crossing from 16 February 2023 due to alleged smuggling of goods to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad with Lithuanian customs officials advising this decision was linked to the lack of x-ray systems at the border. No timescale was given but the Lithuanian Minister of Internal Affairs was quoted in Lithuanian media that it would re-open once two scanners are installed.
Parečča/Porech'e (Парэчча/ Поречье) 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. It formerly carried through Lithuanian trains between Vilnius and Druskininkai, but these ceased in 2001. BČ operates trains to Užberež, at km 99, just before the border.
Parečča/Porech'e (Парэчча/ Поречье) BČ - Druskininkai LG
[D] Line closed and lifted at Druskininkai. Formerly carried through Lithuanian trains between Vilnius and Druskininkai, but these ceased in 2001. BČ operates rare local trains to platform Nastaŭnik/Uchitel' just before the border.
