Riga–Daugavpils Railway

The Riga–Daugavpils railway line (Latvian: Dzelzceļa līnija Rīga—Daugavpils) is a 218-kilometre (135 mi) long[2] railway line in Latvia which connects the cities of Riga in central Latvia and Daugavpils in south-eastern Latvia.

It was built in 1861, and is one the oldest railway lines in Latvia.

[1] It was a part of the Riga–Oryol railway line, a 15,467 km (9,611 mi) long railway line in the Russian Empire, constructed to connect the Baltic Sea at Riga with Oryol in central Russia.

At Daugavpils the line connected with the Saint Petersburg–Warsaw Railway, and thus joined the city of Riga with the Russian rail network.

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View of Dvinsk Station in Riga (before 1893 Dinaburg Station , later called Riga Central Station ), western terminus of the Riga–Daugavpils railway line. The building was demolished in the 1950s .
Railway lines in Latvia in 2016.