Railway line Knin – Split

Knin split
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C4
Route number :	M604 Knin – Split Predgrađe L218 Split Predgrađe – Split
Course book range :	70a (HŽ)
Route length:	102.658 km
Top speed:	100 km / h
Dual track :	Split Predgrađe – Split
Legend from Oštarije from Novi Grad from Zadar 223.689 Knin Orašnica Krka 231,589 Kaldrma 234,321 Kosovo 240.893 Tepljuh 243,346 Siveric 245.031 Drniš Čikola 253,554 Žitnić 258.017 Sedramić 262,016 Planjane 265,351 Unešić 271.177 Cera 274,334 Koprno Autocesta A1 277,399 Perković to Šibenik 281,370 Donji Dolac 284.659 Primorski Dolac 287,563 Bakovići 289.683 Brdašce 290.715 Preslo 293,350 Prgomet 296,500 Labin Dalmatinski 303.872 Sadine 308,087 Kaštel Stari Državna cesta D8 ( Jadranska Magistrala ) 311.750 Kaštel Kambelovac 312,950 Kaštel Gomilica 315,464 Kaštel Sućurac 319.163 Solin Jadro 323.501 Split Predgrađe (Split Suburb) 325.155 Split Trg Hrvatske bratske zajednice (planned) 326,347 Split

The railway line Knin – Split is a main line in Croatia, which was built and operated as one of the first railway lines in Dalmatia . It leads from Knin via Perković to Split .

history

In the 1860s, u. a. Bernhard von Wüllerstorf-Urbair decided to build a privately operated railway connection between the heartland of Austria-Hungary and Dalmatia . These plans were not implemented because no financiers could be found. In the 1870s, the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB) decided to build these railway lines themselves. In the years 1874 to 1877 the sections from Siverić to Šibenik and Split were built, and by 1888 the connection from Knin to Siverić was also implemented. It was connected to the railway network in 1925 with the completion of the Lika Railway.

As a result of the First World War , the catchment area of ​​the line became part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes proclaimed at the end of October 1918 ( Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1929 ) . On this basis, this route was also incorporated into the railways of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and later into the Yugoslav State Railways . With Croatia's independence in 1991, the route was again transferred to the newly founded Hrvatske željeznice (HŽ) railway company . The northern part of the route was from 1991 to 1995 on the territory of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina and thus outside the sphere of influence of the HŽ. In the official timetable of the HŽ for the 1994 summer timetable, only traffic offers between Sedramić and Split were shown on this route. During the Croatian War, part of the line was partially destroyed in 1991 and was impassable. After the war it was rebuilt and reopened in early 2001.

Since 2005, the route Zagreb – Split has been served by the Croatian Railways (HŽ) with tilting technology trains of the 7123 series . These trains are known as InterCity Nagibni (ICN), they run significantly faster than the trains previously used and are considered to be more comfortable. In the 2012 annual timetable, the scheduled travel time of these trains between Zagreb and Split was just over six hours, 97 minutes of which were for the Knin – Split section. The long-distance range between Zagreb and Split is (2012) supplemented by several locomotive-hauled rapid and night trains , with a pair of trains and car passenger coach carries. Through car connections to and from Budapest are also offered seasonally, and once a week to Moscow . Long-distance transport services to Šibenik are not offered.

On July 24, 2009, the ICN 521, a tilting train , derailed near the Kaštel Stari station in a tight curve at excessive speed. Six people died and 40 (55 according to other sources) were injured. The reason was that immediately before the train involved in the accident drove on the route, a construction train had not only sprayed the wooden sleepers with a fire protection agent, but also the rails. A greasy film of oil formed there, preventing the tilting train from braking to the permissible speed in front of the curve. During the clean-up work, a train service vehicle braked itself on the oil film and derailed. Nobody was harmed. It took eleven days to clean the rails.

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  Knin Station (2008)

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  Freight train with 2062 111 in Kosovo station (2013)

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  Perković station (2011)

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  Train between Sadine and Primorski Dolac (2013)

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  Train at Sadine (2013)

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  Railcar crashed at Kaštel Stari in 2009 , parked here near Solin station (2012)

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  A railcar of the HŽ series 7122 , which is used on this route in regional traffic, in the Split station (2014)

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  Tilting technology train of the HŽ in Split station (2007)

Web links

Commons : Knin – Split railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Art. Dalmatiner-Bahn In: Dr. Elmar Oberegger, encyclopedia on the railway history of the Alps-Danube-Adriatic region. 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ HŽ Infrastruktura doo: Izvješće o mreži 2014. (PDF) In: hzinfra.hr. December 5, 2012, archived from the original on October 21, 2013 ; accessed on April 25, 2018 (Croatian). 
2. ^ Encyclopedia on the railway history of the Alps-Danube-Adriatic area: Dalmatiner-Bahn. Elmar Oberegger, 2006, accessed on August 11, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Hrvatske Željeznice po: Vozni red 29.V.1994. - 24.IX.1994. Zagreb 1994, p. 210ff.
4. ↑ HŽ Putnički prijevoz doo: Vozni red 11.XII.2011. - 8.XII.2012. , Zagreb 2011.
5. ↑ bac / an: Serious train accident in Dalmatia . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . October 2009, p. 494 .
6. ↑ Tilting train accident on the Zagreb – Split line. Zug & Eisenbahn Blog, July 25, 2009, accessed May 21, 2014 .