Kaliningrad Railway () is the smallest subsidiary of the

Russian Railways Russian Railways or RZD () is a Russian fully state-owned vertically integrated railway company, both managing infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services and has a near-monopoly on long-distance train travel in Russia. ...

by route length (618 km) and differs from other Russian railways in having a string of

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lines.

Main information

The railway is headquartered in

Kaliningrad Kaliningrad,. known as Königsberg; ; . until 1946, is the largest city and administrative centre of Kaliningrad Oblast, an Enclave and exclave, exclave of Russia between Lithuania and Poland ( west of the bulk of Russia), located on the Prego ...

. Most lines were built by the

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before the

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. The railway terminal in Kaliningrad, currently known as Yuzhny Vokzal, was opened in 1929 as ''Königsberg Hauptbahnhof''. It was separated from the Pribaltic Railway after the breakup of the

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in 1992. Two lines are electrified and are used by commuter EMU traffic. Rail-freq b005c2

Many railways that did exist before World war 2 were closed down after the war. Most remaining railways were rebuilt from

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. The exception is the railway from Kaliningrad towards

Mamonovo Mamonovo (, , or , ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, near the border with Poland. Population figures: Etymology Mamonovo is named after a Soviet Commander, , killed in action near Pułtusk on ...

and Elblag in Poland, which has one track of each gauge.

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* {{Russian Railways Companies based in Kaliningrad Rail transport in Kaliningrad Oblast Railway lines in Russia Railway companies established in 1996 Standard-gauge railways in Russia