M101 railway (Croatia)

Savski Marof–Zagreb railway
Zagreb Glavni kolodvor
Overview
Line numberM101 (HŽ)
LocaleZagreb; Zagreb County
Stations11
Service
TypeSuburban rail; Regional rail; International rail
History
OpenedOctober 1, 1862
Technical
Line length26.709 km (16.6 mi)
Number of tracks2
Track gauge1435 mm
Electrification25 kV 50 Hz AC
Operating speedUp to 120 km/h (74.6 mph)
Route map

Legend
 to Ljubljana
Slovenia-Croatia border
Sutla river bridge
to Kumrovec
5
 Harmica
4
 Sutla
2
 Laduč
7
0
 Savski Marof
3
 Brdovec
5
 Zaprešić-Savska
to Zabok
7
 Zaprešić
Zagreb bypass A2 motorway
Krapina river bridge
Samoborček
11
 Podsused
12
 Podsused freight station
14
 Gajnice
15
 Vrapče
18
 Kustošija
Samoborček
Zagreb West station (freight)
20
 Zagreb West Station
line to Sisak and line to Rijeka
22
 Zagreb Main Station
to Budapest and Belgrade via Dugo Selo

The state border–Savski Marof–Zagreb Glavni kolodvor railway (Croatian: Pruga državna granica–Savski Marof-Zagreb Glavni kolodvor), officially designated as the M101 railway, is a 26.709-kilometre (16.596 mi) railway line in Croatia, connecting the nation's capital Zagreb and its main railway station to the Slovene railway network west of Savski Marof and further on with Ljubljana.[1][maps 1] Its route follows the Sava Valley.[2] It is an integral part of the Pan-European Corridor X running from Salzburg and Ljubljana towards Skopje and Thessaloniki. The line is electrified and double-tracked.[2] The line is used for passenger (urban-suburban, regional and international) and freight traffic.

The railway connects to the M102 railway at its eastern terminus in Zagreb, linking Zagreb with railways extending north to Budapest and east to Belgrade. Furthermore, the railway connects to the M202 linking Rijeka, the R201 to Čakovec via Zabok and the L102 railway to Kumrovec. The L102 is largely unused, and only a short section extending to the village of Harmica is in use.[3] The M405 railway, a short line branching off to the south between the Zagreb Zapadni railway station and Zagreb Glavni kolodvor. The M405 terminates at the Trešnjevka wye, where it connects to the M104 and M202 railways.[4]

The Savski Marof–Zagreb railway was opened in 1862 in former Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg), as a part of a railway line from Zidani Most (present day Slovenia) to Sisak. The second track was commissioned in 1944.[5] It was the route of the Orient Express service from 1919 to 1977.[6]

In the early 1990s, stops in Kustošija and Gajnice were added between Zagreb West Station and Zaprešić for the needs of then newly introduced Zagreb Commuter Rail.[7] In the first half of 2000s, stops in Vrapče and Gajnice were reconstructed: new 160 meter long and 55 meter high southern and northern platforms were built, with adding of the canopies, ticket offices, access for people with disabilities and rest of the urban equipment. [8]

  1. ^ "Odluka o razvrstavanju željezničkih pruga" [Decision on Classification of Railways]. Narodne novine (in Croatian). Government of Croatia. 2006.
  2. ^ a b 2014 HŽ network statement Archived 2013-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Karta pruga" [Railway map] (in Croatian). Croatian Railways. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013.
  4. ^ "Annex 3.1. Line classification". Network Statement 2014. HŽ Infrastruktura. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 May 2013.
  5. ^ Žuljić, Stanko (1978). "Razvoj sistema magistralnih željeznićkih pruga na području SR Hrvatske [Development of the railway network on the territory of the SR Croatia]". Geografski Glasnik (in Croatian) (40).
  6. ^ Smith, Mark. "A history of the Orient Express". Seat Sixty One. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  7. ^ "Stajalištu u Gajnicama obnova, Sesvetskoj Sopnici novi peron". www.vecernji.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  8. ^ "Listopad 2005". www.zagreb.hr. Retrieved 13 April 2022.


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