Classic route
Vivi
Riga → Liepāja · Latvia
- Distance
- 215 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 16 min
- Average speed
- 66 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Pasažieru vilciens
- Train
- DR1AM DMU
- Countries
- Latvia
- In service since
- 2017
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A once-daily run reborn in 2017, crossing Courland to Liepāja, the windswept Baltic port and former Tsarist naval base.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 11336326 (42 km), relation 18000679 (180 km) — 222 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 2 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 723
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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