Mockava

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Mockava is a village in Lithuania six km from the border with Poland. The Mockava Railway Station is located northeast of Mockava in the village of Template:Ill.

According to the 2011 census, the population of Mockava was 59.[1]

Transport

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Mockava railway station.

The Rail Baltica project runs through the area. A break-of-gauge facility at Mockava allows rolling stock to be exchanged between the European standard gauge, Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., and the Script error: No such module "Track gauge".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". gauge of former satellite states of the Soviet Union. To speed up though traffic, a track-gauge changing facility operates, which includes the SUW 2000 variable gauge axle system that allows fitted trains to pass through the break of gauge at walking pace.

Railway station

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Mockava railway station is a railway station east of Mockava, in the village of Zelionka, in southwestern Lithuania. It is served by the Polish State Railways's Mockava-Suwałki railway line.[2] This station is built at the end of a dual-gauge track between Mockava and Šeštokai, which supports both Lithuania's Russian gauge and Poland's standard gauge.

History

In 1997, a liquefied gas transfer terminal was introduced at the Mockava station, and in 1999, a bogie exchange machine was installed.[3]

On 23 July 2007, a plaque was unveiled at the station marking the launch of the EU-supported Rail Baltica project.[4] Finally, on 11 December 2022, for the first time, the international Kraków-Vilnius InterCity train stopped at Mockava station.[5]

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