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In this paper the authors outline the role of the Ruma–Vrdnik Local Railway Stock Company in the construction and exploitation of the Ruma–Vrdnik railway line and the mine in Vrdnik. The stock company was founded in 1889 in Zagreb. The Ruma–Vrdnik railway line was open for trafϐic on 4 July 1889. It was built for the purpose of exploiting the mine in Vrdnik. Both the mine and the railway line were owned by the Pongratz family. In 1907, after they were sold to the state, the reason for the existence of the railway stock company ceased to exist and it entered a liquidation process. After the brown coal mine terminated its production, the entire trafϐic on the Ruma–Vrdnik railway line was discontinued in the 1970s.

In this paper the author analyzes the organizing, activity and liquidation of the Ruma–Klenak Vicinal Railway Stock Company from 1901, when the company was founded, through 1933, when its liquidation was completed. During the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the railway line was under the jurisdiction of the Business Administration in Segedin i.e. Pecs and in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Yugoslavia it came under the jurisdiction of the Regional Board of State Railways in Belgrade. Based on the agreement of 7 February 1931, the state bought off the railway lines of the Ruma–Klenak Vicinal Railway Stock Company and hence it ceased to exist. In 1932 the company entered the process of liquidation, which ended on 12 April 1933.