LÎÒ #30491. Parcel card, from St. Peterburg, Russia 23.1.1908 To: station Granica, township Petrokovskoy province, ariv. 26.1.1908. Total = 65 kop., frank.: 1 x 50 kop., 1 x 15 kop. = 65 kop. Please see scan.
The station Granica, township Petrokovskoy province
- County borough Bendinskogo Petrokovskoy province, on the River Biala Przhemshoy, border station of the Warsaw-Vienna Railway. dor. Residents before 5000. A first-class custom. For 1889 brought through it to 17,085 rubles., Transported to 1762 thousand rubles. (
Warsaw-Vienna Railway main line of the road from Warsaw to the Austrian border - the oldest in Russia after Tsarskoselskaya. It originated in the following circumstances. In the early forties of the Kingdom of Poland was a special governorship, which was headed by an influential Paskevich-Warsaw. He fussed about the early implementation of the road is very important for given it the edge, passing through the rich agricultural and industrial localities of the kingdom and linking Warsaw with a network of Austrian railways. It must be noted that while the Polish Kingdom was separated from the Empire Customs limits, destroyed only in 1850, with import duties in the Kingdom of Poland were much lower than in the Empire. Because of these conditions greatly facilitates communication Kingdom of Poland with the border part of the Austrian Empire and the Prussian Kingdom and found it difficult relations with the Empire. A new railroad, of course, to further facilitate relations with Austria. Construction of it was transferred to a private company, the term of the concession (90 years) will expire on October 20 (November 1) 1932 Track width of the Warsaw-Vienna railroad adopted the same as that of the railways of Prussia and Austria - are narrower than in most Russian railways. Thus, all goods coming from inside Russia on the road, always loaded and abroad freely reach Warsaw.
In the late 50's to another Railway Company, called the Warsaw-Brombergskim, was granted a concession for a railway connecting the city Lovich with the Prussian border in Alexandrov (near the Prussian fortress of Thorn). Subsequently, (1 January 1890) the two companies have merged under the name of the Warsaw-Vienna railway.
