Lithuania - Lines with Obscure or Sparse passenger services
Introduction
This list is based on the timetable current as at January 2015. Standard abbreviations are explained in General Information.
Obscure services
Kaunas avoiding line: Palemonas (Pamaris) – Garliava (Jiesia)
(ERA1 115B3) LT15/1
All services between Vilnius and Kaliningrad-Pass.
(Vilnius –) Paneriai – Valčiūnai
(ERA1 115B4, not shown) LT15/2
There are two routes between Paneriai and Valčiūnai, a line used by trains serving Vaidotai staff halts (see the map below) - a direct south curve and a longer north curve, which climbs to cross over the Kaunas main line. Both curves are reversibly signalled. Rail staff confirm that their use is variable at the signaller's discretion. Services that use these curves are identified in the next entry.
Railway Map of Vaidotai area:
(Vilnius) – Paneriai – Vaidotai Yard - Valčiūnai
(ERA1 115B4) LT15/3
An afternoon service in each direction on the Vilnius – Stasylos runs via the western part of the Vilnius southern avoiding line as a service to railway staff working at Vaidotai marshalling yard. The southbound service uses the line on the south west side of the yard and the northbound train the line on the north east side. There are identically named staff halts at Vaidotai KIK, MRC & AIK on each separate line. Calls at these halts are listed as footnotes in the journey planner and appear on the printed timetable sheets available from major stations. See the map above.
| 636 | Stasylos - 18:43 Valčiūnai - Vilnius | ||
| 637 | Vilnius - 18:49 Paneriai - Stasylos |
Radviliškis
(ERA1 115A3) LT15/4 Radviliškis station lies between two marshaling yards, one to the NW and another, larger yard to the SE. Trains from Šiauliai run on the south side of both yards whereas those from the Vilnius direction run on the north side of the yards. The maximum separation of these running lines in the larger yard is over 300 m.
Other sparse services
The following lines have fewer than three trains each way on at least three days a week, or do not run each weekday.
- (Radviliškis -) Linkaiciai - Panevēžys - Rokiškis
- Marijampolė - Šeštokai (service suspended south of Kazlų Rūda at present)
- Turmantas – Daugavpils (Latvia)
- (Kaunas) - Palemonas - Jonava - (Šiauliai)
