Railways in Slovenia
beautiful lines in magnificent countryside
Mountains characterizes the landscape in Slovenia, apart from the eastern parts of the Pannonian Basin on the border with Hungary. The railway winds in narrow river valleys and has to climb up some passes. Everything is required from the locomotives of the Slovenian Railways, especially the diesel locomotives hauling goods trains, what you can enjoy as a marvelous sound when they have to go uphill. On the main line from Koper on the Adriatic coastline to Divača, Pivka, Postojna, the capital Ljubljana, Zidani Most, Celje and Maribor, you will experience varied train traffic with German, French and Italian locomotives in front of Intercity trains, local trains and heavy freight trains.
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One of the most famous railway lines in Slovenia is the Bohinj Railway, also known as the Transalpina. In addition to the local trains and a freight train that runs on demand, there is a steam train for tourists offered on the weekend (note the timetable). However, there is another attraction running every day. On the Bohinj Railway offer Slovenian Railways the probably most minute shuttle service with motor vehicles in the same way like on the great Alpine routes. A diesel locomotive transports the car shuttle train through the 6,327 meter long Bohinj tunnel (Bohinjski predor) between Bohinjska Bistrica on the north side and Podhrdo or Most na Soči or from Nova Goriza in the morning, to Nova Gorica in the evening in summer. The train contains flat wagons type R, on which the cars, small trucks, sprinter, vans, bicycles and motorcycles are loaded. Furthermore a passenger wagon is appended, in which passengers without their own vehicle can use the train. The “auto vlak” (means: car train) offers for motorists a convenient and stress-free alternative to get from the Karawanks Mountains into the Isonzo / Soči Valley easily and without having to drive the 55 bends over the Vršič Pass or the pass of the country road 909.
The Slovenian Railways Slovenske železnice and the Turistična agencija C.L.U.B.
offer rides with the heritage train from May to November. Both companies use the same train with
the same coaches and the steam locomotive SŽ 33-037 and drive the same line on the Bohinj Railway.
The state railway goes from Jesenice to Nova Gorica on Saturdays and there are also excursions organized,
like from Most na Soči to Kobarid or from Kanal to Goriška Brda and Sabotin.
The C.L.U.B., however, drives on Sundays and vice versa. The charter steam train goes from Nova Gorica
to Lake Bled (Slovenian: Blejsko jezero), where even Josip Broz Tito took possession of a villa and
occasionally resided there as head of state. For both companies, the train doesn't run every Saturday
or Sunday. Please note the driving days, which are published on the Internet.
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If you want to admire the Japanese Shinkansen high speed trains, please change to the
railway gallery Japan. Also the railway traffic in
Sri Lanka,
Germany,
Slovakia and
Croatia
were joined into a separate national gallery due to the huge choice of available pictures.
All other countries are summarized in the
international photo gallery. The steam locomotives mustn’t be missing,
but they have as well their own national galleries, one is reserved for
German steam trains, another for
Japanese steam train operations.
Although there are only 3 operational steam locomotives in
Sri Lanka, they have their own gallery, because an organized journey
will cause a lot of beautiful pictures in a magnificent landscape.
Chinese factory and coal mine railways were also spun off and joined together in its
China winter steam gallery, because the amount of available photos is simply
too intensive to show them in the regular steam locomotive gallery.
All other steam locomotives and trains pictures are joined together in the
worldwide photo gallery.
Following on from the picture gallery, there are explanations and requirements.
Further pages can be found on the subject of railways, train and locomotives.
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