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Glūda–Reņģe Railway

railway line in Latvia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ553090 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Glūda–Reņģe Railway is a 60 kilometres (37 mi) long, 1,524 mm (5 ft) gauge railway built in the 19th century to connect Jelgava and Mažeikiai.

See also

Rail transport in Latvia

History of rail transport in Latvia

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External links

(in Latvian and English) Latvijas dzelzceļš (LDz) – state-owned railway infrastructure manager in Latvia.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Glūda–Reņģe Railway” is railway line in Latvia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Glūda, Reņģe and Railway, not as a finished interpretation.

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This entry incorporates text from “Glūda–Reņģe Railway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.