Vilnius - Berlin by Train - part 1: LTG Link Train Vilnius - Mockava (Suwałki Gap / Rail Baltica)

Excellent trip report with a lot of information. Thank you.

thank you for the tip! Might actually try it... it is my feeling PESA has some designer who immerse himself with those "pissed off" look-like loco faces HAHA! Ceske drahy are running RegioShark from the brand so it definitely looks like "a shark" but I call the face "Neanderthal's Brow Ridge" And if you actually try to Google PESA products almost everything lately looks like that!

There are quite a few different train/travel videos here, but yours are simply the best of them all.

Train doesn't stop in Šestokai because there is no such a possibility. For 1520 here is a platform to terminate or change direction from Marijampole to Alytus (or v.v.) but not if you run to Mockava. It is possible to stop in Šestokai running from Mockava to Marijampole at 1435 only.
This is obviously wrong design. Not the only one at present route of Rail Baltica at LT...

Schönes Video. Danke! 😊

My assumption on why PKP IC train wasn't certified to go all way beyond Mockava to Kaunas is a fuel efficiency

I was lucky to ride on the PKP sleeper to Vilnius a year before the service ended. It only had two couchettes and one sleeper, and it was almost empty. The track between Sestokai and Kaunas was so bad back then that the train could only run at 30 km/h at certain sections, and it was REALLY bumpy. I really loved the trip though.

Po pekapowsku. Trzy godziny na manewry wagonikami 🙄

Fascinating report! And I have not used the forward button. ... I think I will use this link as well (with some stops). Thank you.

Thanks for sharing such pleasant moments. I have a great passion for trains, their whistles, even the diesel smell on the tracks. In shorter, the whole universe that surrounds them. Great video. I couldn't blink my eyes enchanted by the lovely snow white Lithuanian landscape. From Belo Horizonte, the Capital City of the State of Minas Gerais, Southeast of Brazil, my greetings. Seeking more videos. Hugs.

What is a porvoniza??

Very interesting ! 🥸🥸

Hi there, I have a question about the booking process. When booking it, can I select seats/choose if I want to travel in a compartment carriage?

The emblem in the left upper corner of the initial video screen is not the emblem of the CSTO.

sorry but russian tv is huilo

No suprise these trains are empty. This is train travel in 19th century style. A regional commuter DMU on the Lithuanian branch, no comfort, train change in bitter cold on a forlorn station in the middle of nowhere, and 9 hours of ride... by air same route in one hour. I believe they keep this service just for the sheer sake of it, mainly on political reasons. Perhaps cheaper direct buses are running as well. What the three Baltic nations really need would be a HSR line, Tallinn - Riga - Kaunas - Bialystock - Warsaw - Posznan to Berlin, connecting with the German HSR system into western Europe. 250 to 300 km/h instead of 120. Well, instead Europa pumps all money into this war. Fair enough, they did not start it. But that service here has no future

well.. at least not walking across the border like some kilometers away to another country.... for the difficult times it is a good solution ! very good video!!!

Nice video, but the train from Kiev to Riga is withdrawn now not only because of pandemic ;)

Part 1 & part 2 of this video are VERY INTERESTING. I am waiting for part 3 with GREAT INTEREST & IMPATIENCE.

Very informative video, thank you, best from Hungary...

Love ther video top notch

Lithuanian language reminds me of Latin and Greek, with its "-us"s "-is"s and "ai"s

Good one and up to date especially the NATO War against Russia! Keep up the good work!

Why are you so worried about Russia? If the war has taught us anything, it's that the Russians couldn't win a war against any country larger than Georgia if their lives depended on it. Of course, it's easy for me to say, on a neutral island at the very edge of Europe (or, in other words, an extremely strategic location with no defence worth mentioning and no defence treaties...) But the Russians suffer from the same problems that they've always suffered from, and chances are poor that they'll be anything other a regional power over the next couple of decades. The best that they can hope for is to rig some more elections in the USA and get Trump back in power.

not correct .. (2 dots) correct ... (3 dots)

Hancza is the name of deepest lake in Poland, located in North East region of the country.

done Vilnius - Berlin in 1989, if I am not mistaken but the cars was lifted and the weels base has been changed. Will do this once again soon

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Excellent video! I know this railway line very well. Since 1999 I'm heading from Germany to the Baltics several times a year. Then this line was operated 2 or 3 times a day, including a night-train, which was stopped in 2005. And from then the train "Hancza" was the only connection between Poland and Lithuania, with junction at Šeštokai. After the standard gauge was extended to Kaunas, the line was operated by 2 polish trains to Kaunas, only at weekends. Now "Hancza" is going again to Lithuania, station Mockava.
The line from Berlin to Kaunas could be very attractive for a new night-train connection between the 3 countries.
The route on the classic Warsaw - St.Petersburg line could be operated too, with junction at Sokolka. The time for the journey from Warsaw to Vilnius would be more than 2 hours less than via Suwałki. But due to political reasons it's actually not possible.

Hi mate, in your opinion how many people use this service as trains looks empty...?

Only 8 trains a day from airport?

Do you seriously use Rossiya 1 as your source of information about the war in Ukraine?

Zamiast skupić sie na temacie odcinka, prowokacyjne wstawki z Russia 1. Im wiecej polityki tym mniej merytoryki, Stracisz wielu subskrybentów....Do tej pory naprawde lubiłem ten vlog ogladać...

You mentioned in part II about your videos being long... don't change a thing!! I love your history details and no narration-I feel like I really took the trip... yours are the best I've seen so far. Broke American, can't afford a trip to the next town. Makes me wish I'd been born into Europe. The auto industry destroyed the rsilroads here and the decline and living standards are going down like the Edmund Fitzgerald. Plus I love the details on locomotives and equipment that you have. European electrics are beautiful. 👍👍👍

I have to leave a thumb down due to promotion of a terrorists-owned television network

Super trasa !

While neither the Lithuanian or the Polish rolling stock are particularly interesting, the winter scenery through out this journey is spectacular. Thanks for sharing.

из Вильнюса в Белосток напрямую не проедишь а надо пересадка и горько смотреть.

Lithuanian language sounds like Russian. It's said that it could be some kind of sound of the proto-european language.

Hi. Will be that possible to make the same journey this year? Are those trains going every day?

Уважаемый автор я обращаюсь с вопросом о том где сейчас смотрите информацию и в каком источнике ??

Suvalki is a part of a old lithuania rimerber that

It's not an airport express train it's a train that goes to jasiunai and just happens to stop at the airport