The Latvian Railway History Museum in Riga preserves locomotives, carriages and the tools and records of railway workers. Its collections connect the engineering of trains with the people, routes and decisions that made the railway operate.
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A railway carriage can have more than one working life. Third-class passenger carriage No. 01776 was built in Riga by the Fenikss factory to a 1925 design. After passenger service, it was adapted as temporary accommodation for railway workers; seats and fittings were removed and the heating and electrical systems changed. It reached the Latvian Railway History Museum in 1994 after years at a railway maintenance station in Jelgava.
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- Latvijas dzelzceļš founded the museum in 1994.
- Third-class carriage No. 01776 was built in Riga to a 1925 design and later used as railway workers’ accommodation.
- Steam locomotive L-0312 was built in 1948 and began service in Latvia in 1963.
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