Pivka – Rijeka railway line

Pivka – Rijeka
Route number :	64 ( SŽ ) / M203 ( HŽ )
Course book range :	80 ( HŽ )
Route length:	55.386 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C2 ( SŽ ) / D4 ( HŽ )
Power system :	Pivka – Šapjane: 3 kV  =
Power system :	Šapjane – Rijeka: 25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	25  ‰
Top speed:	75 ( SŽ ) / 50 ( HŽ ) km / h
Legend from (Vienna–) Spielfeld-Straß 0.000 Pivka (578 m) to Trieste 4.400 Narin 9.100 Kilovče 16.000 Ilirska Bistrica (405 m) Reka 22.000 Mala Bukovica 24,490 State border Slovenia - Croatia 27.816 Šapjane A7 motorway 34.645 Brgud 37.539 Permani 39.832 Jurdani (343 m) 41.345 Jušići A7 motorway 43,039 Rukavac 45.758 Opatija-Matulji (210 m) A8 motorway 52.138 Former border between Austria and Hungary 52.772 Krnjevo 55.386 Rijeka (5 m) to Zagreb Swell:

The Pivka – Rijeka railway is a main line in Slovenia and Croatia that connects the Ljubljana – Trieste railway and the Croatian port city of Rijeka . It is around 55 km long, single-track and electrified.

history

The railway line from Pivka to Rijeka was licensed by the Austrian state administration in 1859 and built as a branch of the Archduke Johann Railway by the Southern Railway Company and opened in 1873. The direct accessibility of Vienna created with the railway line led, among other things, to a considerable boom in the seaside resort of Abbazia .

As a result of the First World War and on the basis of the Treaties of St. Germain and Rapallo , the catchment area of ​​the line was annexed to Italy . The Pivka – Rijeka railway line also fell to the Italian State Railways on this basis . After the Second World War and as a result of the Paris Peace Conference in 1946 , the region became part of Yugoslavia , and the railway facilities became part of the Yugoslav State Railways .

With the disintegration of Yugoslavia in 1991, the respective sections were again transferred to the newly founded railway companies of Slovenia ( Slovenske železnice , SŽ ) and Croatia ( Hrvatske željeznice , HŽ ).

electrification

After 1935 the then Italian leg Trieste- Postojna the former Austrian Southern Railway with the Italian railway power system 3000 V dc was electrified, also the route Pivka-Rijeka from the 1936 Italian state railways equipped with this system.

After several years of construction, the Croatian section Šapjane – Rijeka was converted by the Croatian Railways to the AC system with 25 kV and 50 Hz in mid-December 2012 together with the Moravice – Rijeka section of the Zagreb – Rijeka railway line . The Šapjane station thus became a system transfer station . The almost three kilometers to the north of it to the state border with Slovenia are thus the last section of the route electrified with direct current in Croatia.

Today's operation

In the 2017 annual timetable, the entire route is served by two pairs of express trains on the Ljubljana - Rijeka route every day . The travel time in both directions is just under 2 hours and 50 minutes, of which around 1 hour and 45 minutes for the section between Pivka and Rijeka (including border crossing and changing locomotives). Local rail passenger transport services are currently not offered on the Croatian side.

gallery

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  Pivka station (2011)

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  Kilovče stop (2011)

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  Reception building of the Opatija-Matulji applicant (2009)

See also

• List of railway lines in Croatia
• List of railway lines in Slovenia

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Freiherr von Röll: Austrian Southern Railway. In: Encyclopedia of Railways. Volume 7, Berlin / Vienna 1915, pp. 444–448.
2. ↑ Network Statement 2020. Annex 3A: Technical data on rail lines (PDF). Slovenske železnice, accessed on June 1, 2020.
3. ↑ Network Statement 2020. Annex 3F: Line speed (PDF). Slovenske železnice, accessed on June 1, 2020.
4. ↑ Network Statement 2020 (PDF). HŽ infrastructure, Annex 3.5, 3.13 and 3.18; accessed on June 1, 2020.
5. ^ Railway Atlas Italy and Slovenia / Atlante ferroviario d 'Italia e Slovenia . Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89494-129-1 .
6. ↑ ^{a b} Encyclopedia on the railway history of the Alps-Danube-Adriatic region: Pivka-Bahn. Elmar Oberegger, 2006, accessed on July 22, 2013 . 
7. ^ Fritz Stöckl: Railways in Southeast Europe. Bohmann Verlag, Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-7002-0431-X , pp. 41 and 46.
8. ↑ Croatia: The conversion of direct current lines has started. Lok Report, December 17, 2012, accessed December 21, 2012 . 
9. ↑ 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, only via download). 
10. ↑ HŽ Putnički prijevoz doo: Vozni red 11.XII.2016. - 9.XII.2017. Zagreb 2016.

Web links

Commons : Pivka – Rijeka railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Article Pivka Railway . In: Dr. Elmar Oberegger, encyclopedia on the railway history of the Alps-Danube-Adriatic region. 2011ff.
• Article Rijeka Railways . In: Dr. Elmar Oberegger, encyclopedia on the railway history of the Alps-Danube-Adriatic region. 2011ff.