Around 1935, Latvian

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s consisted of 536 km (335 miles) of gauge, 432 km (270 miles) of gauge, and 48 km (30 miles) of meter gauge.The TU2 Pages
/ref> One public, one museum, and some industrial peat railways survive.

Common carrier

Track gauges were gauge unless otherwise specified. * First Russian Supply Railway Company *

Valka Valka (; german: Walk) is a town and municipality in northern Latvia, on the border with Estonia along both banks of the river Pedele. Valka and the Estonian town Valga are twins, separated by the Estonian/Latvian border but using the slogan "O ...

– Rūjiena–

Mõisaküla Mõisaküla ( lv, Muižciems; Meizakila) is a town in southern Estonia, part of Mulgi Parish of Viljandi County, just next to the border of Latvia. It is considered to be the smallest town in Estonia. The town has 32 streets, with the total leng ...

– Pärnu, branch of the Gulbene Line * Liepāja–

Alsunga Alsunga (also Alšvanga, german: Alschwangen) is a village in Alsunga Parish, Kuldīga Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia. Alsunga is the center of the Suiti, a small Catholic community in the Lutheran western part of Latvia. The ...

line, 67 km, opened in 1932, extended to Kuldīga (20 km) * Liepāja– Rucava line, 52 km, narrow-gauge military line,

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to narrow gauge * Liepāja–

Aizpute Aizpute (german: Hasenpoth) is a town in western Latvia's South Kurzeme Municipality in the valley of the Tebra River, northeast of Liepāja. History The territory of modern Aizpute was inhabited by ancient Curonians since the 9th century. St. ...

railway, 48 km. * Livonian Supply Railway Company ** Gulbene line, Pļaviņas–

Gulbene Gulbene (; german: Schwanenburg) is a town in northeastern Latvia. It is an administrative center of Gulbene Municipality. The area of this region is , with a population of 29,797 inhabitants (69,369 sealen, 10,015 urban, 19,782 rural populat ...

– Alūksne– Ape–

Mõniste Mõniste, formerly known by its German name Menzen, is a village in Rõuge Parish, Võru County in southeastern Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the ...

– Valga, 202 km, opened in 1903, partially closed in stages. * Pāle– Staicele, 16 km, opened 1927 * Puikule– Aloja, 12 km. * Riisselja–

Ainaži Ainaži (pronounced ; et, Heinaste) is a port town in Limbaži Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. The town is located near the Estonian border on the site of an ancient Livonian fishing village. Before 1917, it was known by its Ge ...

, 76 km, closed 1975. * Valmiera supply railway company, gauge, 1912: ** Valmiera– Smiltene, 32 km, closed 1969. ** Valmiera–

Harbour, 83 km, closed in 1979.

Peat railway

The peat companies mainly use gauge, but there also exists and gauge railways. * Peat railway based at Ozoli * Peat railway based at Seda * Peat railway based at Misa * Peat railway based at Puikule * Peat railway based at Zilaiskalns * Peat railway based at Strūžāni * Peat railway based at Līvāni * Peat railway based at Baloži

Other

* There is an historic train in Ventspils. The track gauge is and the length is a 2 km circle. The locomotives are former " Brigadelok" steam locomotives. From 1918 until the early 1960s they ran a regular service from Ventspils along the coast to Mazirbe and further down to Talsi and

Stende Stende (; german: Stenden) is a town in Latvia. History The settlement was on the land of the manor Stende since the 14th century. The whole of it was owned originally by the lord of the manor Philipp von der Brüggen, to whom it was granted b ...

. * The Riga Pioneer Railway, 2 km long, was in existence from 1956 to 1997.

References

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