Latający Wilnianin (English: Flying Wilnianin[a] ) was the popular name of a passenger train which in the interbellum period linked Warsaw with Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania). Another name for that train was Gwiazda Północy (The Star of the North).[1]
In 1919, it took around 20 hours for a train to cross the distance of 423 kilometers between Warszawa Zachodnia (Warsaw West) and the station in Wilno. In 1939, this distance was crossed in 5 hours and 45 minutes. In the summer of 1939, the fast train left Warsaw daily at 9:05 to arrive at Wilno at 14:50.[2] A second daily train between the two cities left Warsaw West at 16:41 and arrived at Wilno at 22:31.[2]
The trains, both of which finished routes at then-border station of Turmont - Zemgale, Latvia, stopped at the following stations:
- Warsaw Główna
- Warszawa Wschodnia
- Białystok
- Grodno
- Porzecze (32 kilometers northeast of Grodno)
- Turmont - Zemgale, Latvia
See also
Notes
a ^ Wilnianin - Polish for inhabitant of Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania).
References
- ↑ "W pogoni za luxtorpedą | rp.pl". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18.
- 1 2 Official Time-Table of Polish State Railroads, Summer 1939, page 282
- Herbich, Anna (2010-11-11). "Wilno - podróże w czasie" (in Polish). Presspublica Sp. z o.o. Retrieved 2011-07-11.