Mitava Railway

• On June 9, 1867, a concession was issued to a joint-stock company consisting of representatives of the local aristocracy and wealthy merchants (Count Palen, Baron Gan, A. Tillo, etc.)
• On November 21, 1868, traffic began from Torensberg station (on the left bank of the Western Dvina) to Mitava (39 miles long).
• According to the new Charter of the Mitava Railway Society, approved on March 18, 1872, it was allowed to extend the road to Art. Mozheki Libava Railway.
• On November 1, 1873, traffic from Mitava to the Mozheki station (88 miles) was opened.
• April 1, 1894 purchased by the state treasury.
• Since 1896 , as part of the Riga-Oryol Railway .

Riga

Jelgava I

 

Mazeikiai

Line on a country map

• Riga II

Nodal station: Riga-Dinaburg railway d.

• Riga III Commodity
• Thorensberg (milestone)

Nodal station: Riga-Bolderaa railway. d.

• Mitawa
• Mozheiki-Commodity. 126 miles
• Mozheiki (Muravyovo). 2nd grade.

Nodal station: Libava railway d. ( Libavo-Romny railway )

• RGIA, f 446, op. 29, d.12. Report No. 11. February 4, 1894 “On the admission of S. Petersburg-Warsaw, Nikolaev, Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod, Mitava, Riga-Dvinsk, Bolderaa and Orel-Vitebsk railways to the treasury”.

• Charter of the Mitava Railway Society. Approved March 18, 1872 Specifications for the Mozheykovsky site. SPb. 1872
• Report of the Board of the Mitava Railway Company. 1873-1894 Riga. 1874-1896
• Explanatory note by the Board of the Mitava Railway to the project for the continuation thereof from Art. Mozheiki to m. A new place on the Prussian border. Riga. 1874 and 1885
• Statistics of the shipment of goods of all three categories on the Mitava Railway for 1891-1894 Riga. 1892-1895

• Mitava Railway // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.