{"id":5500,"date":"2019-07-11T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T08:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/place\/narrow-gauge-railway-station\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:43:00","slug":"narrow-gauge-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"place","link":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/place\/narrow-gauge-railway-station\/","title":{"rendered":"The Siaurukas Narrow-Gauge Railway Station \u2013 Big Stories of a Small Steam Locomotive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dark red brick building standing on Priesto\u010dio Street is the former Klaip\u0117da Narrow-Gauge Railway Station, warmly called <em><i>Siaurukas<\/i><\/em>\u00a0by the townspeople. On 22 October 1906, first trains departed from there, going out of the city on a narrow, just 1,000 mm wide, gauge. The railway was built and operated by a private joint-stock company, and the name of the network itself was <em><i>Memeler Kleinbahn<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The railway lines connected Klaip\u0117da with Dovilai, V\u0117\u017ea\u010diai, Plikiai and Laugaliai townships, transporting both passengers and cargo. Although the trains did not run fast, they ran reliably, and such a trip by train used to be the highlight of a day, especially for children and travellers with suitcases. The narrow-gauge railway was also used to transport sawmill products and lime.<\/p>\n<p>The station was filled with horn sounds of steam locomotives, echoing footsteps, and the hustle and bustle of departures, daily city life was in full swing there. Today, the station building is like a frozen memory of the times when small trains travelled from Klaip\u0117da to all corners of the region, leaving a trail of smoke and the excitement of departure in the air.<\/p>\n<p><strong><b>Address:<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0Priesto\u010dio Str. 3 and 5, Klaip\u0117da<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4082,"menu_order":835,"template":"","format":"standard","place-category":[208],"restoranu-kategorija":[],"class_list":["post-5500","place","type-place","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","place-category-places-to-visit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place\/5500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/place"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place\/5500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"place-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place-category?post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"restoranu-kategorija","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/restoranu-kategorija?post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}