Kaunas railway station

Kaunas railway station

Kauno geležinkelio stotis
Kaunas railway station; Kauno geležinkelio stotis
	Station in 2022
General information
Location	M. K. Čiurlionio g. 16, LT-44362, Kaunas; Lithuania
Coordinates	54°53′11″N 23°55′53″E / 54.88639°N 23.93139°E
Owned by	LTG
Line(s)	Kaunas–Vilnius; Kaunas–Palemonas–Šiauliai; Kaunas–Kybartai; Kaunas–Marijampolė; Kaunas–Białystok (Poland);
Connections	bus, trolleybus
Construction
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	1859
Location
	Kaunas railway station Location within Lithuania

Kaunas railway station (

Central Kaunas, Lithuania. Kaunas railway station was included into the Registry of Immovable Cultural Heritage Sites of the Republic of Lithuania in 2003.^[1]

History

After the

Nemunas river were constructed. On the 15 August 1861 the first train left Kaunas and reached Lentvaris.^[2] Kaunas railway station was officially opened on 21 February 1862. In 1944, the station was bombed by the withdrawing German army.^[3]

The present-day Kaunas railway station was built in 1948 on the foundation of the old station and designed by architect Petr Ashastin. Its architecture was based on the principles of classicism: strict symmetry, separate and large-scale inner spaces, horizontally continued shape, massive walls and centrally oriented stairs.[4] The station was reconstructed between 2005 and 9 April 2008.^[3]

Kaunas

Map of the planned Rail Baltica line

International Passenger Trains

Direct weekend trains to

Przewozy Regionalne.^[5] These run on the non-electrified single track standard-gauge railway built as a first stage of the Rail Baltica

project. As of 2019, this line terminates in a dedicated double-sided platform on the south-east side of the station.

References

^ [1] The Registry of Immovable Cultural Heritage Sites: Unique object code: 28268. Retrieved on 15 December 2010.
^ [2] Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine Lithuanian Railways. The History of the Tunnel. Retrieved on 15 December 2010.
^ ^a ^b [3] Kaunas: Dates and Facts. Under the Rule of Tsarist Russia. Retrieved on 15 December 2010.
^ [4] City and Ideology: Soviet Kaunas of 1945-1965 by Vaidas Petrulis. Retrieved on 15 December 2010.
^ "Rail Baltica: Bialystok - Kaunas route set to open for rail passenger transport in June - Think Railways". Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.

[1] [1] The Registry of Immovable Cultural Heritage Sites: Unique object code: 28268. Retrieved on 15 December 2010.

[litrail.lt-2] [2] Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine Lithuanian Railways. The History of the Tunnel. Retrieved on 15 December 2010.

[datos.kvb.lt-3] [3] Kaunas: Dates and Facts. Under the Rule of Tsarist Russia. Retrieved on 15 December 2010.

[4] [4] City and Ideology: Soviet Kaunas of 1945-1965 by Vaidas Petrulis. Retrieved on 15 December 2010.

[5] "Rail Baltica: Bialystok - Kaunas route set to open for rail passenger transport in June - Think Railways". Archived from the original on 20 September 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2016.

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