Bohinj Railway

The Bohinj Railway (Slovene: Bohinjska proga, Italian: Transalpina, German: Wocheiner Bahn) is a railway in Slovenia and Italy. It connects Jesenice in Slovenia with Trieste in Italy. It was built by Austria-Hungary from 1900 to 1906 as a part of a new strategic railway, the Neue Alpenbahnen, that would connect Western Austria and Southern Germany with the then Austro-Hungarian port of Trieste. The line starts in Jesenice, at the southern end of the Karawanks Tunnel; it then crosses the Julian Alps through the Bohinj Tunnel, and passes the border town of Nova Gorica before crossing the Italian border and reaching Trieste.

Jesenice–Nova Gorica–Trieste Campo Marzio
Bohinj Railway
Solkan Bridge, the second-longest stone bridge in the world
Overview
Line number
  • 70 (Austria)
  • 67 (Italy)
Technical
Line length129 km (80 mi)
Track gauge1435mm
ElectrificationVilla Opicina–Trieste: 3 kV DC
Operating speed80 km/h (50 mph) max.
Maximum incline2,5%
Route map

from Rosenbach (Villach and Klagenfurt)
0.0
Jesenice
to Ljubljana
2.6
Kočna
4.8
Vintgar
7.6
Podhom
10.1
Bled Jezero
14.1
Bohinjska Bela
Soteska
23.7
Nomenj
27.9
Bohinjska Bistrica
35.2
Podbrdo
40.4
Hudajužna
46.9
Grahovo ob Bači
50.4
Podmelec
55.8
Most na Soči
64.1
Avče
69.9
Canale
Kanal
73.2
Anhovo
75.9
Plave
86.5
Solkan
89.1
Nova Gorica
92.3
Šempeter pri Gorici
St. Peter
to Gorizia Centrale
95.7
Volčja Draga
97.1
Okroglica
100.1
Prvačina
101.4
Dornberk
103.2
Steske
106.3
Branik
113.2
Štanjel
St. Daniel
117.3
Kopriva
119.8
Dutovlje
Kreplje
to Sežana (since 1948)
Repentabor
19.466
State border Slovenia–Italy
former Austrian Southern Railway (Section Šentilj–Trieste)
Trieste–Ljubljana; now Autoporto Fernetti branch
from Ljubljana
15.695
Villa Opicina
Junction track with former Opicina South station
to Trieste
8.00
Guardiella
5.00
Rozzol-Montebello
until 2003
from Trieste Centrale
from Trieste Aquilinia / from Erpelle /
Narrow-gauge railway from Parenzo
0.799
Trieste Campo Marzio

During the First World War, it carried the majority of Austrian military supplies to the Isonzo Front. Due to new political divisions in Europe, with the dissolution of Austria-Hungary into separate states in 1918 and the isolation of communist Yugoslavia after 1945, the railway decreased in importance during the twentieth century. However, Slovenia's accession to the European Union has created new prospects for the railway as a convenient passenger and freight route from Central and Eastern Europe to the port of Trieste.

Distinctive features of the railway are the 6,327.3 metres (20,759 ft)-long Bohinj Tunnel under 1,498 metres (4,915 ft) high Mount Kobla and the Solkan Bridge with its 85 metres (279 ft) wide arch over the Soča River (longest railway stone arch in the world).

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