Rail Baltica is a project to link Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland with a European standard gauge rail line, providing passenger and freight service between the countries and improving rail connections between Central and Northern Europe. It envisages a continuous rail link from Tallinn (Estonia), to Warsaw (Poland), via Riga (Latvia) and Kaunas (Lithuania). It will bypass the Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia) and Hrodna (Belarus), which have historically hosted two Poland–Lithuania rail routes. Rail Baltica is one of the priority projects of the European Union: Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T).
The largest Baltic-region infrastructure project in the last 100 years
- A 10-year construction period
- For both passenger and freight traffic
- Length: 870 km
- Environmentally friendly – powered by electricity, produces less noise and vibration
- Max. speed: 240 km/h (passengers), 120 km/h (freight)
- More than €5 bn investment in the region
- Implemented by Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
- Part of the EU’s North Sea Baltic TEN-T corridor
- Financed by EU (CEF), Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
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