Šeštokai is a small town in southern
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
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Infrastructure
The town is a
transport hub as it hosts Šeštokai
Intermodal Terminal and has
dual gauge
In railway engineering, "gauge" is the transverse distance between the inner surfaces of the heads of two rails, which for the vast majority of railway lines is the number of rails in place. However, it is sometimes necessary for track to c ...
track as well as
break-of-gauge for the
1435 mm standard gauge and
1520 mm broad gauge. It is also a major
rail junction on the
Rail Baltica I line from
Poland to the city of
Kaunas
Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai ...
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References
Towns in Alytus County
Towns in Lithuania
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