Classic route
Zemitāni–Skulte railway
Skulte → Rīga · Latvia
Zemitāni–Skulte railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 52 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 02 min
- Average speed
- 50 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Vivi
- Train
- Vivi regional
- Countries
- Latvia
- In service since
- 1937
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Latvian 1,520 mm track north from Riga to the Gulf coast at Skulte — what remains in service of the old Riga–Rūjiena and Riga–Tallinn route, cut at the Estonian border in 1992.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11497603 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 2 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.3 km from the shape of R 6109 (Zug-Nr. 6109)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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