Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) - Lines with Obscure or Sparse passenger services
Introduction
This list is based on 2013 timetable information. Standard abbreviations used are explained in General Information. For details of recent history, please refer to Kaliningrad Oblast General Information.
Obscure services
[Braniewo PKP] – Mamonovo – Kaliningrad
[1] (33A3, not completely shown; 115C1) RU13/1
Broad and standard gauge tracks run parallel from Poland until just north of Golubevo and then take totally different routes into Kaliningrad. The standard gauge line heads east with an interlaced Broad gauge freight only track to join the line in from Bagrationovsk near the closed station of 6 km to enter Kaliningrad South station from the east, whereas the Broad gauge passenger service runs via and calls at Kaliningrad Kievskaya to arrive into Kaliningrad South station from the west. The daily standard gauge service between Gdansk and Kaliningrad was discontinued in 2012 although occasional charters from Germany still run.
Kaliningrad avoiding line: Zapadnij Noviy – Kaliningrad Severniy
(33A3, not shown; 115B1-115C1) RU13/2
This curve allows trains from the Baltiysk line to avoid Kaliningrad Passazersky and proceed directly to Kaliningrad Severniy
SSuX | 6400 | Baltiysk/БАЛТИЙСК – 08:34 Zapadnij Noviy/ЗАПАДНЫЙ-НОВЫЙ – Chkalovsk Zapadniy/ЧКАЛОВСК ЗАПАДНЫЙ | |
E1 | 6422/6421 | Kutuzovo Novoye/КУТУЗОВО-НОВОЕ – 08:50 Kaliningrad Severniy/КАЛИНИНГРАД-СЕВ – Baltiysk/БАЛТИЙСК |
E1: Runs on Navy Day only. See RU13/3 for details.
(Kaliningrad – Primorsk Noviyy –) 39 Km – Baltiysk
(33A3; 115B1) RU13/3
Baltiysk is the base of the Russian Baltic Fleet and became a closed town after WWII: access was forbidden to foreigners or those without a permit. Access is still in principle available only to those with a permit. Trains are checked at a platform named 39 Km, about 8 km north of Baltiysk, although this may no longer be so rigorously enforced. However, the public is able to visit Baltiysk without a permit once a year on Navy Day, the last Sunday in July. A special train service is provided for this.
In 2013, Navy Day fell on 28 July and the following trains were booked:
6401 | 08:00 Kaliningrad/КАЛИНИНГРАД ПАСС ЮЖНЫЙ – Baltiysk/БАЛТИЙСК |
6422/6421 | Kutuzovo Novoye/КУТУЗОВО-НОВОЕ – 08:50 Kaliningrad Severniy/КАЛИНИНГРАД-СЕВ – Baltiysk/БАЛТИЙСК |
6403 | 14:40 Kaliningrad/КАЛИНИНГРАД ПАСС ЮЖНЫЙ – Baltiysk/БАЛТИЙСК |
6405 | 17:45 Kaliningrad/КАЛИНИНГРАД ПАСС ЮЖНЫЙ – Baltiysk/БАЛТИЙСК |
5585 | 21:07 Kaliningrad/КАЛИНИНГРАД ПАСС ЮЖНЫЙ – Baltiysk/БАЛТИЙСК |
6424 | 10:00 Baltiysk/БАЛТИЙСК – Kaliningrad/КАЛИНИНГРАД ПАСС ЮЖНЫЙ |
6426 | 13:10 Baltiysk/БАЛТИЙСК – Kaliningrad/КАЛИНИНГРАД ПАСС ЮЖНЫЙ |
6404 | 16:22 Baltiysk/БАЛТИЙСК – Kaliningrad/КАЛИНИНГРАД ПАСС ЮЖНЫЙ |
6406 | 19:10 Baltiysk/БАЛТИЙСК – Kaliningrad/КАЛИНИНГРАД ПАСС ЮЖНЫЙ |
6428 | 22:40 Baltiysk/БАЛТИЙСК – Kaliningrad/КАЛИНИНГРАД ПАСС ЮЖНЫЙ |
Other sparse services
The following lines have few trains (relative to service levels generally in this country) - fewer than three trains each way on at least three days a week - or do not run each weekday.
14 | Kaliningrad-Severnyj – Sovetsk |
Deletions since last edition
RU08/2 | Kaliningrad Severnyj: no additional trains are scheduled to use the terminal platforms in 2013. |
8 | Černjachovsk – Železnodorožnyj: service withdrawn |
18 | Černjachovsk – Sovetsk: service withdrawn |