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Draft:Railway electrification in the Baltic states

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Estonia

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Electrificted lines on Estonia in 2016

The Estonia Railways use 3000 V DC rail lines for commuter traffic with a total length of 132.5 km. These are the railway lines:

  • Tallinn – Pääsküla – Electrified in 1924 to a 1200 V DC and being the first ever electrified railway line in the Baltics.
  • Tallinn – Keila – The line was electrified in 1958 to a 3000 V DC.[1]
  • Keila – Paldiski – Electrified 1958-1962.[1]
  • Klooga – Kloogaranna – Electrificted in 1960.[1]
  • Tallinn – Kehra – Electrified in 1973.
  • Kehra – Aegviidu – Electrified in 1978.
  • Keila – Turba – The line is electrified between the sections of Keila – Vasalemma in 1965 and between Vasalemma – Riisipere in 1981.
  • The electrficted part Riisipere – Turba was opened in December 2019.[2]

The Tallinn to Tartu railway is due to be electrified by 2024, with electrification of the remaining network expected to be completed by 2028.[3]

Estonian Railways are planning to raise the Voltage on the Commuter Railways from the 3000 V DC to a 25 000 V AC between the years of 2024-2028.

Latvia

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Electrificted lines on Latvia in 2016

The Latvian railway network has 257 kilometers of electrified 3 kV DC on four lines centered around Riga. The LDz has the following electrified railway lines:[4]

The electrification schedule for the following railway lines was planned for 2015–2020:

  • Aizkraukle – Krustpils
  • Krustpils – Rezekne
  • Krustpils – Daugavpils
  • Krustpils – Jełgawa
  • Jełgawa – Tukums 2
  • Tukums 2 – Ventspils

The project was not implemented according to the schedule, and in March 2020 it was decided to limit it for financial reasons.

By 2040, electrification of the entire railway network in the country is planned, along with a voltage change to 25 kV AC.[5]

Lithuania

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The electrification of Vilnius–Kaunas Railway was achieved on 29 December 1975. In 1979, electrficted line Naujoji Vilnia – Kaunas and Lentvaris – Trakai.[6]

The electrification was first implemented in 1975 for the Vilnius–Kaunas line.[7] This was followed by extention of catenary to Naujoji Vilnia (the part of Vilnius-Turmantas railway [lt] within Vilnius city limits) Vilnius–Trakai lines and, since 2017, Vilnius–Minsk line.[8]

Vilnius-Marcinkonys railway [lt]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "HORISONT - inimene, loodus, universum".
  2. ^ "VIDEO ja FOTOD: Riisipere-Turba rong tegi Eesti kiireimal raudteel esimese sõidu".
  3. ^ ERR News. €43 million missing from Estonia's railway electrification budget. Retrieved 9 July 2021
  4. ^ "Latvijas dzelzceļa vēstures muzejs". Archived from the original on 2014-03-29.
  5. ^ "Latvian Railway announces massive plans for railway electrification". 28 January 2022.
  6. ^ ""Nepriklausomybės sąsiuviniai". Kelionė Lietuvos geležinkelių istorijos bėgiais, I dalis". 11 January 2015.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference LTG-infra-history was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ "Oficialiai atidarytas elektrifikuotas geležinkelio ruožas Minskas – Vilnius". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Lithuanian). 18 September 2017. Archived from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 10 October 2021.