Classic route
Vivi
Riga → Daugavpils · Latvia
- Distance
- 218 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h
- Average speed
- 73 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Pasažieru vilciens
- Train
- DR1A DMU
- Countries
- Latvia
- In service since
- 1861
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The historic Riga–Dünaburg line to Daugavpils, Latvia’s second city, hard by the Lithuanian and Belarusian borders.
How this line was checked
- The 217 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 10987988 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of R 802 (Zug-Nr. 802)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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