Bohinj Railway

Jesenice–Nova Gorica–Trieste Campo Marzio
Bohinj Railway
Solkan Bridge, the second-longest stone bridge in the world[1]
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

km
0.0
Jesenice
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
Yugoslavia
00Italy
border (1920–1947)
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
Ajdovščina
101.4
Dornberk
103.2
Steske
106.3
Branik
113.2
Štanjel
St. Daniel
117.3
Kopriva
119.8
Dutovlje
Kreplje
Repentabor
Sežana
19.466
former Austrian Southern Railway (Section Šentilj–Trieste)
15.695
Villa Opicina
8.00
Guardiella
5.00
Rozzol-Montebello
until 2003 [2]
0.799
Trieste Campo Marzio
km

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.

During the First World War, it carried the majority of Austrian military supplies to the Isonzo Front. Because of 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-metre (20,759 ft) Bohinj Tunnel under 1,498-metre (4,915 ft) Mount Kobla and the Solkan Bridge with its 85-metre (279 ft) arch over the Soča River (the longest stone railway arch in the world).

  1. ^ Gorazd Humar (September 2001). "World Famous Arch Bridges in Slovenia". In Charles Abdunur (ed.). Arch'01: troisième Conférence internationale sur les ponts en arc Paris (in English and French). Paris: Presses des Ponts. pp. 121–124. ISBN 2-85978-347-4.
  2. ^ "Impianti FS". I Treni (255): 8. January 2004.