• 1906 – licence for the construction of the railway line from Krásno nad Kysucou to Nová Bystrica. Nevertheless he construction was not realized.
• 1914.- The stock company for mill and timber industry buys the logging rights to forests in the river basin of Bystrica from count Karolyi for a period of 10 years.
• 17. 12. 1914 – public survey to obtain a licence for building a the logging railway from the timber store in Oščadnica through the valley of Bystrica to Chmúra
• 12. 5. 1915 - construction licence issued
• 7. 7. 1917 – traffic licence issued for the division Oščadnica – Stará Bystrica (0- 16 km)
• 15. 3. 1918 – traffic licence issued for the division Stará Bystrica – Nová Bystrica
• 15. 10. 1918 – a temporary traffic licence issued for divisions to Vychylovka and to Harveľka, applicable until 31. 8. 1919.

• 1626 – formation of the Orava Compossessorate as a kind of joint ownership of nobility lands to manage the forests in the water basin of Bílá Orava
• 3. & 4. 4. 1914 – administrative survey to obtain a licence to build the logging railway for the Orava Compossessorate
• 27. 7. 1918 – traffic licence issuued for the whole project

After the construction of the connection line a part of the extension Vysoká Magura (3,92 km) became a division of the main line whereas the end of the former main line in the division Ustrig – Podrusnáčka (from km 17,5) became an extention.

OLR was an isolated traffic system lacking connection with the standard-gauge railway and therefore it could not provide for an adequate export of timber beyond the limits of the region. The timber was forwarded by cartloads to the local line Kraľovany – Trstená rising thus the costs considerably. This situation led from the very beginning of the traffic on the OLR to the idea of connecting this railway with the KLR, whose track was only 4 km away in crow-fly distance beyond the Beskyd Pass (939 m above sea level). It was proposed to cover the difference of elevation of 217 m on the Kysuca side by a system of five dead-ends (2 dead-end stations and 3 line dead-ends). By operating the connection line the main direction of the traffic was reversed, and unlike on most of the logging railways, were timber was collected in the downward direction, here it was hauled upwards across the Beskyd Pass.

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• 11.-.13.1925 – administrative survey of the division Gontkula – Beskyd (km 0 – 4,4) on the Orava side
• 31. 12. 1925 – confirmation of the contruction licence for the Gontkula – Beskyd division
• 9. 4. 1926 – administrative survey of the division Beskyd – Chmúra on the Kysuca side (km 4,4 – 9,55)
• 24. 7. 1926 – confirmation of the construction licence for the Beskyd - Chmúra division
• 1. 10. 1926 – technical and police survey of the finished connection line
• 15. 2. 1928 – confirmation of the traffic licence of the connection line

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