Presentation and cancellation of the stamp dedicated to the 155th anniversary of the establishment of the first railway line in Latvia will take place in the Riga Central Station

08.09.2016

Latvijas Pasts has released a new stamp to mark the 155^th anniversary of the establishment of the first railway line in Latvia. The official presentation of the stamp with the participation of the Minister of Transport Uldis Augulis and managers of Latvijas Dzelzceļš and Latvijas Pasts will be held in the Riga Central Station at 2 Stacijas laukums, Riga at 1 AM on the 12^th of September 2016. The first day cancellation of the stamp will take place in Riga post office No.50 located in the premises of the Riga Central Station from 8 AM to 8 PM.

The release and presentation of the stamp is timed to coincide with the date when the first railway line connecting Riga with Daugavpils was opened in Latvia 155 years ago, on the 12^th of September 1861.

The print run of the new stamp Latvian Railway History is 100,000 copies and its face value is €1.49, which corresponds to the cost of sending a regular Class B letter to any country of the world or mailing a registered Class A letter within Latvia. The stamp depicts Krustpils Station – the largest intermediate railway station on the Riga-Daugavpils Railway, which was built along with the construction of the line in 1861 and which serves as a junction with a number of other converging rail routes. Krustpils Station includes a motive power depot and a railway car shed and other railway facilities and buildings.

The release of the stamp is accompanied by the issue of a special cover with a print run of 1,500 copies. The stamp and the cover Latvian Railway History have been designed by the artist Ģirts Grīva.

Latvijas Pasts has repeatedly focused on the railway theme in its philatelic releases and has so far issued nine stamps featuring both Latvian railway history and railway transport infrastructure. Four stamps were dedicated to the railway history theme and issued in 2001, 2009, 2010 and 2011, four stamps in the series Latvian Bridges depicted various Latvian railway bridges, while the railway bridge in Carnikava was selected for the Latvian stamp in the joint stamp block Baltic Bridges in 2012.

The newest Latvijas Pasts stamp and cover in honour of the 155^th anniversary of the first railway line in Latvia can be viewed here, and all Latvijas Pasts stamps dedicated to the railway theme are available for viewing here.

The next philatelic release is scheduled for the 15^th of September.

About SJSC Latvijas Pasts

Latvijas Pasts ensures the widest availability of postal services throughout Latvia by maintaining more than 600 post offices. The primary function of the company is provision of the universal postal service; Latvijas Pasts also provides commercial transport, express mail, payment, press subscription, retail and philatelic services. Latvijas Pasts is a wholly State-owned company with more than 4,200 employees. The quality measurements of Latvijas Pasts domestic mail deliveries are regularly conducted by TNS Latvia, one of the leading market, social and media research agencies in Latvia. In turn, the quality measurements of the cross-border deliveries are provided within the framework of the International Post Corporation through the intermediary of the research companies TNS, Ipsos and Quotas.

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