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The idea of a railway connecting Riga with Rūjiena is much older than the railway itself. At one time, not even a single party promised at the elections that there would be a line to Rūjiena. At first it was designed as a narrow-gauge railway, but in 1930 the Saeima passed a law that it would be a broad-gauge railway. It was completed in 1937 and it went down in history as the longest built at that time. Unfortunately, it did not last long. The railway was closed step by step, until in 1999 the movement of passenger trains was stopped. Currently, only the Riga-Skulte section remains from the former line. However, several stations continue to live. Not only history lovers, but also pizza lovers should visit Aloja, Limbaži were transformed into station buses, but Stiene was one of the few that was not destroyed during the Second World War. #sif_maf2024