Mockava is a village in
Lithuania six km from the border with
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
. The Mockava Railway Station is located northeast of Mockava in the village of Zelionka.
According to the 2011 census, the population of Mockava was 59.
Transport
The
Rail Baltica
Rail Baltica (also known as Rail Baltic in Estonia) is a high-speed railway under construction between Warsaw, Poland and Tallinn, Estonia, with further connections to Finland via Baltic Sea cruiseferries or the proposed Helsinki–Tallinn Tunn ...
project runs through the area. A
break-of-gauge facility at Mockava allows
rolling stock
The term rolling stock in the rail transport industry refers to railway vehicles, including both powered and unpowered vehicles: for example, locomotives, freight and passenger cars (or coaches), and non-revenue cars. Passenger vehicles can ...
to be exchanged between the European standard gauge, , and the gauge of former
satellite state
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s of the
Soviet Union
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. To speed up though traffic, a
track-gauge changing facility operates, which includes the
SUW 2000 variable gauge axle
A variable gauge system allows railway vehicles in a train to travel across a break of gauge between two railway networks with different track gauges.
For through operation, a train must be equipped with special bogies holding variable gauge wh ...
system that allows fitted trains to pass through the break of gauge at walking pace.
References
Villages in Marijampolė County
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