Classic route
Jūrmala Line
Riga → Tukums · Latvia
- Distance
- 67 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 54 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Vivi
- Train
- Vivi Škoda EMU
- Countries
- Latvia
- In service since
- 1877
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Latvia’s beach train: across the Lielupe to the villas and pines of Jūrmala’s resort strip, then the bog boardwalks of Ķemeri national park.
How this line was checked
- The 66 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 11327349 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 7 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 1.9 km from the shape of 6513
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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