Société du Chemin de Fer Riajsk-Wiasma

Общество Ряжско-Вяземской Железной Дороги
Riajsk-Wiasma Railway Company
Riaschsk-Wiasma-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft
Other city spellings: St.-Pétersbourg, Petrograd, Pétrograde

Concession granted in April 1872 with head office in St. Petersburg. Initial capital was 7,006,875 roubles (metallic) in shares of 125 roubles. The undrawn shares were converted into 3% bonds in 1889. The railway ran from Riajsk to Vyazma, west of Moscow, on the line to Smolensk and Poland.  The company was nationalised in 1889.