GC1VQ15 Sidetracked - Svencioneliai (Traditional Cache) in Lithuania created by Kibiras

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Kibiras: Istorija.

GC1VQ15 ▼

A cache by Kibiras Message this owner

Hidden : 7/10/2009

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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SideTracked Caches are intended to provide quick Cache-and-dashes at Train Stations. This is one of the series of over 500 caches started in the UK and Ireland.

Švencioneliai grown up after the railway Petrograd-Warsaw was built through the town. In 1899 narrow railway from Lentupys to Panevežys was built in the town and Švencioneliai became the crossroad of the railways.

The narrow gauge railway was also used to carry people to the first broad gauge railway station, from which people were exiled to Siberia. For many of them this was the last trip, separating them from the native land forever...