Classic route
LTG Link
Vilnius → Kaunas · Lithuania
LTG Link in pictures
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- Distance
- 102 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 5 min
- Average speed
- 94 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- LTG Link
- Train
- Škoda EJ575
- Countries
- Lithuania
- In service since
- 1862
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Hourly express between Lithuania’s two largest cities along a segment of the old St Petersburg–Warsaw Railway.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 87.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.4 km from the shape of R 873 (Zug-Nr. 873)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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