Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
has 158.8 km of
narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard-gauge railway, standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
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lines remaining, although only 68.4 km of them (serving five stations) are regularly used, employing 12 locomotives. They are included in the Registry of Immovable Cultural Heritage Sites of Lithuania.
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gauge railways
* Švenčionėliai–Pastavy
Pastavy ( be, Паставы, lt, Pastovys, russian: Поставы, pl, Postawy) is a city in the Vitebsk Region of Belarus, an administrative center of Pastavy District.
Location
Pastavy is located on the river Myadelki. Postavy Air Base ...
–Berezvetsh; 125 km opened in 1895. Most of the line was (and is now) in Belorussia. Švenčionėliai - Lyntupy stretch closed, Lyntypy - Berezvetch (Glubokoye) stretch regauged (1520 mm).
* Švenčionėliai– Panevėžys; 145 km, opened in 1901. Švenčionėliai - Utena stretch regauded (1520 mm), Utena - Rubikiai stretch dismantled, and Rubikiai - Panevėžys stretch still working.
gauge military railways
These railways were built during World War I by the German Empire
The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ...
at the gauge of , converted to gauge by the Lithuanian state railways, and expanded to a network of 111 km.
* Panevėžys– Joniškėlis; 36 km
* Joniškėlis– Biržai; 42 km
* Joniškėlis– Žeimelis; 37 km
* Joniškėlis– Petrašiūnai (Pakruojis)– Šiauliai; 68 km
* Petrašiūnai (Pakruojis)– Linkuva; 7 km
* Joniškis
Joniškis (; Samogitian language, Samogitian: ''Juonėškis'') is a town in northern Lithuania with a population of about 9,900. It is located 39 kilometers north of Šiauliai and 14 kilometers south of the Lithuania–Latvia border. Joniškis i ...
- Žeimelis; 28 km, not converted to 750 mm gauge
World War I 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) field railway from Dūkštas, (Lithuania) to Druja. After takeover by Poland, the PKP regauged the line to 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) in 1932. After World War II the large part of the line was in Belorussia, the railway closed in the 1970s.
Other
* Vilnius pioneer railway, 1,6 km in the Vingis Park
Vingis Park ( lt, Vingio parkas) is the largest park in Vilnius, Lithuania, covering . It is located in a curve of the Neris River, hence its Lithuanian name: 'vingis' means "bend", "curve"; the same meaning has the historical Polish name of the l ...
in Vilnius
* There are also many peat factories, which have private narrow-gauge railways for transportation of peat from field to factory.
See also
* Aukštaitija narrow gauge railway
References
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