Railway

The Polesia railways were put into operation as sections were completed: from Zhabinka to Pinsk - November 9, 1882, from Vilna to Luninets - December 30, 1884, from Luninets to Pinsk - December 30, 1884, from Luninets to Rovno - August 2, 1885, from Luninets to Gomel - February 15, 1886, from Baranovichi to Bialystok - November 23, 1886, from Gomel to Bryansk - August 8, 1887.

But let's go back to the time when the railway came to the town. On December 30, 1884, the first trains started running on the lines connecting Vilna and Luninets (297 versts), Luninets and Pinsk (53 versts). The construction of the tracks was completed in record time for those days - in just 1 year and 8 months. Luninets began to grow. In 1909, there were almost 600 houses and more than 3 thousand inhabitants. There were 19 trading shops, an inn, three taverns, a reception room of a small railway hospital, two schools - a public one and a railway one. Those arriving at the station were greeted by a beautiful stone station building, whose doors were opened by a doorman.

Thanks to the construction of the railway, Luninets began to develop, growing from a village into an industrial town. Today it is an important railway junction. More than 2.2 thousand people pass through the station per day. About twenty pairs of passenger trains running in suburban and interregional directions pass through Luninets.