Rail transport in Latvia

The main railway company is the state-owned Latvijas dzelzceļš (LDz), with its subsidiary Pasažieru vilciens (PV) providing passenger services.

The Rail Baltica project aims to connect Latvia and the other Baltic states to the European standard gauge by approximately 2030.

[1] Although PV has been a monopolist in passenger train, in February 2022 the Road Transport Administration of the Ministry of Transport of Latvia announced the first market survey on potential private rail passenger service providers.

[2] Rail Baltica is an ongoing greenfield railway infrastructure project which will link all Baltic States, including Latvia, Poland and, eventually, Finland.

Being a part of the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T), it is one of the priority projects of the European Union.