Lithuania has 158.8 km of 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) narrow-gauge railway lines remaining,[1] although only 68.4 km of them (serving five stations) are regularly used, employing 12 locomotives. They are included in the Registry of Immovable Cultural Heritage Sites of Lithuania.[2]
These railways were built during World War I by the German Empire at the gauge of 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in), converted to 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge by the Lithuanian state railways, and expanded to a network of 111 km.
World War I 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) field railway from Dūkštas, (Lithuania) to Druja. After takeover by Poland, the PKP regauged the line to 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) in 1932. After World War II the large part of the line was in Belorussia, the railway closed in the 1970s.
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