Murom Railway

The Murom Railway, 107 km, was opened officially on January 1, 1880, and operated from the beginning by the Nizhnyi Novgorod Railway with 13 locomotives, of which eight (class V) were built at state owned Votkin Works in 1877 - 1878, located at Votkinsk.

The Murom Railway favored trade growth and Moscow's bread supply and provided metal and forest for Central Russia.

The rolling stock of the Murom Railway included thirteen steam locomotives (eight of them from the Votkin Factory, the other five from a German company named Schwartzkopff) and 300 cars.

Also, they built a three small locomotive depots and car sheds in Kovrov, Selivanovo, and Murom.

In May 1918, all of the Russian railways were nationalized and transferred under the authority of the People's Commissariat for Communications (Народный Комиссариат Путей Сообщения).