Narrow-gauge railways in Lithuania


Lithuania has 158.8 km of narrow-gauge railway lines remaining, although only 68.4 km of them are regularly used, employing 12 locomotives. They are included in the Registry of Cultural Property of Lithuania.

gauge railways

gauge military railways

These railways were built during World War I by the German Empire at the gauge of, converted to gauge by the Lithuanian state railways, and expanded to a network of 111 km.
World War I 600 mm field railway from Dūkštas, to Druja. After takeover by Poland, the PKP regauged the line to 750 mm in 1932. After World War II the large part of the line was in Belarus, the railway closed in the 1970s.

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