Railway Šamac – Sarajevo

The title of this article is ambiguous. The former narrow-gauge line Bosanski Brod – Zenica – Sarajevo is described in the article Bosnabahn .

Samac – Sarajevo
Route number :	12
Route length:	242 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Top speed:	70 km / h
Dual track :	Kostajnica (Doboj) –Nemila Alipašin Most– Sarajevo
Legend from Strizivojna-Vrpolje Slavonski Šamac 21.7 Save , border HR - BiH 22.5 Border HŽ - ŽRS Samac Miloševac Garevac from Gradačac Modriča Brvno Vranjak Koprivna Donja Koprivna Gornja Bosnabahn from Bosanski Brod Kožuhe Osječani Vasiljevići Bušletić Kostajnica Donja from Banja Luka , Bosna 78.9 Kostajnica Srpska 82.3 Kostajnica Gornja Doboj to / from Tuzla 84.7 Doboj Usora Valley Railway Bosna Pridjel Ševarlije Jabučić Polje Trbuk Paklenica Rječica 103.5 Border ŽRS-ŽFBH Bosna 108.0 Maglaj 110.2 Baking soda 113.7 Fojnica 115.2 Tomići 117.3 Bradići 121.2 Globarica 125.3 Dolina 127.3 Alići 130.5 Zavidovići 135.9 Vinište Bosna Bosna 142.2 Žepče Bosna Bosna 148.3 Želeće 153.2 Mračaj 155.9 Begov Han Bosna 160.5 Bistričak 164.5 Nemila Vranduk (1532 m) Vranduk 171.6 Jelina Bosna 177.9 Zenica teretna freight yard Connection steelworks / Bosna 179.7 Zenica Bosna Bosna 186.7 Drivuša 188.6 Janjići by Donji Vakuf 193.5 Lašva 197.6 Gora 200.1 Modrinje 204.9 Roščevina 208.0 Kakanj Bosna 211.3 Čatići 216.7 Dobrinje 219.0 Buzići 221.2 Poriječani 226.0 Visoko 230.0 Lješevo from Vareš 233.1 Podlugovi 236.0 Ilijaš 239.7 Vogošća , Montanbahn to Čevljanovići 242.4 Semizovac 246.6 Reljevo 249.1 Rajlovac Narenta Railway , from 1966 Ploče Railway 252.7 Alipašin must Bosnian Eastern Railway 257.1 Sarajevo light red: former Bosnabahn

The Šamac - Sarajevo railway is an electrified railway line in Bosnia and Herzegovina . The partially double-track line is part of the Pan-European Transport Corridor 5c from Budapest via Osijek and Sarajevo to Ploče .

prehistory

Poster advertising the construction of the Šamac – Sarajevo youth railway.

After Austria-Hungary had occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina , the Austro-Hungarian army first built a narrow-gauge taxiway from Bosanski Brod to Zenica . In 1882 the continuation of the Bosna Railway to Sarajevo was opened to traffic. The substructure of this section with a minimum radius of 275 meters has already been designed for standard gauge in order to facilitate subsequent gauge changeover .

In the 20th century, the Bosnabahn with its narrow gauge of 760 millimeters was no longer able to cope with the demands. In 1910, the route was simplified with the opening of the 1532-meter-long Vranduk Tunnel . In addition, the standard-gauge Sava bridge between the Slavonski Brod and Bosanski Brod stations was blown up during the Second World War . Yugoslavia decided to convert the Sarajevo – Doboj section of the Bosna Railway to standard gauge and to extend it to Bosanski Šamac .

construction

Youth Brigade in action at Zenica; on the right in the background the old narrow-gauge track

The railway line was built by the youth brigades with simple means.

The construction of the 242-kilometer-long railway line by the youth brigades only took a little less than eight months. The railway line and the 107 buildings belonging to it were built by around 210,000 young people from Germany and abroad. Among them were Olof Palme , Pierre Trudeau , Pierre Alechinsky and Jurij Brězan . On November 16, 1947, the Bosanski Šamac – Sarajevo railway was opened. Larger engineering structures are the bridge over the Sava in Šamac as well as the Vranduk tunnel and eight other shorter tunnels with a total length of 2354 meters. The total length of the track is 239 kilometers.

business

On February 14, 1971, in the Vranduk railway accident, the diesel locomotive of a passenger train caught fire in the Vranduk tunnel. 33 people were killed. Diesel locomotives could be dispensed with after the Jugoslovenske Železnice (JŽ) electrified the line with 25 kV 50 Hz .

After the division of Bosnia-Herzegovina into two entities as a result of the Dayton Treaty , the section Šamac– Maglaj came to the Željeznice Republike Srpske (ŽRS) and the section in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2001 to the Željeznice Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine (ŽFBH). In the border station Maglaj despite the same technical standards changed locomotives between ZSR and ŽFBH.

The railway line plays an important role in freight transport, especially for opening up the country's industrial centers. It is only of minor importance in passenger transport. In the 2015 timetable , two express trains ran daily between Doboj and Sarajevo , one of them from Zagreb . There were three regional trains between Doboj and Zenica and six on the section between Zenica and Sarajevo . The short section Kostajnica –Doboj is shared by the trains coming from Banja Luka , which usually end in Doboj. The Talgo connection Sarajevo – Banja Luka, which has existed since 2017, was supplemented in 2018 with a second pair of trains from Sarajevo via Novi Grad to Bihać on the Una Railway . It is planned to reintroduce the international Sarajevo – Zagreb trains.

photos

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  Freight train with a locomotive series 441 of the ŽFBH between Doboj and Maglaj.

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  A type 441 ŽRS locomotive reaches Doboj on a regional train.

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  Bosna Bridge at Zenica.

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  Three-part electric multiple unit in Zenica.

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  Railway station Žepče .

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  Freight train with locomotive ŽFBH 441-307 in front of the Kakanj cement factory .

literature

• Ajdin Fevzija-Braco: From the history of the railway. Homepage of the Željeznice Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine (ŽFBH), accessed on April 1, 2016 . 
• Zvonko Springer: Building the new nation (Part 2). Construction of the railway line Samac - Sarajevo 1947. Accessed April 1, 2016 . 
• November 16, 1947. godine krenuo prvi voz prugom Bosanski Šamac - Sarajevo. (On November 16, 1947 for the first train Bosanski Šamac - Sarajevo). Homepage of the city of Kakanj , accessed April 1, 2016 (Bosnian). 
• Putujući Bosnom, nekada ponosnom: Pruga Šamac - Sarajevo, bosanska suza. (Traveling in Bosnia, once proud: the Šamac - Sarajevo railway line, Bosnian tears). Visoko.co.ba agency, accessed April 1, 2016 (Bosnian).
• Elmar Oberegger : Encyclopedia. Bosna Railway. Retrieved April 1, 2016 . 
• Željeznice Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine. BiH Federation Railway. Homepage of the ŽFBH , accessed on April 1, 2016 . 

Route data

• Railways through Europe - network maps and interoperability. Map of Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herc. Institute of Transport Science (VIA), accessed April 1, 2016 . 
• Mapa pruga. (Route map). Homepage of the Željeznice Republike Srpske (ŽRS), accessed on April 1, 2016 (Bosnian). 
• Tobias Heinze: Welcome to www.ec-tobias.de. Line and table timetables 2015: Kursbuch Bosnia-Herzeg. Retrieved April 1, 2016.
• Maps of the Franzisco-Josephinische Landesaufnahme : Historical maps of the Habsburg monarchy. Austrian State Archives , accessed on March 1, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Šamac – Sarajevo railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pruga Šamac – Sarajevo on the Serbian-speaking forum “Forum ljubitelja železnica” with lots of photos

Remarks

1. ↑ according to agency Visoko.co.ba; the Bosnian, Croatian and Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia pages give the length without reference to the source as 239 km.
2. ↑ The northern track is used by trains to and from Šamac, the southern track is used by trains to and from Ploče.
3. ↑ ^{a b} formerly Bosanski Šamac
4. ^ Mathias Rellstab: Talgo to Banja Luka. In: Swiss Railway Review. No. 10/2017. Minirex, ISSN  1022-7113 , p. 513.
5. ^ Toma Bacic: Talgo trains to Bihać. In: Swiss Railway Review. No. 8–9 / 2018. P. 426.
6. ↑ Toma Bacic: Bosnian Talgo trains finally in use. In: Swiss Railway Review. No. 11/2016. P. 545.