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Railway operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina are successors of the Yugoslav Railways within the country boundaries following independence from Yugoslavia in March 1992.

Overview

The two companies operating services (in their respective divisions following the Dayton Agreement) are:

• Railways of Republika Srpska (ŽRS), which operates in Republika Srpska
• Railways of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ŽFBH), which operates in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Railways of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Railways of Republika Srpska have been members of International Union of Railways (UIC) since 1992 and 1998, respectively. They were assigned separate UIC Country Code, 44 for the Republika Srpska and 50 for the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The new code for Bosnia and Herzegovina is 49.

History

The railway system in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Austro-Hungarian period was shaped by military, economic, and strategic considerations. Following the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878, the region's railways were developed under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War. The first railway in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a normal-gauge line between Dobrljin and Banja Luka, completed in 1873. It was initially part of the planned Oriental Railway project, which was later abandoned in 1875.

After the occupation, all subsequent railways were built as narrow-gauge lines (0.76 m), making Bosnia and Herzegovina the only country in Europe with an exclusively narrow-gauge railway network by 1914. The first narrow-gauge railway was the Bosanski Brod–Doboj–Zenica line, constructed in 1879 by the Bavarian company Hügel & Sager. This railway was initially designed as a temporary military line using materials readily available in the company’s storage in Romania. Upon completion, the line was opened for civilian use in passenger and goods transport. The railways were financed primarily by Bosnia and Herzegovina itself, with Austria-Hungary providing loans secured by the exploitation of the region’s natural resources, particularly timber. In 1895, the Bosnian State Railways was established, centralizing administration under the Ministry of Finance. In 1895, the Bosnian State Railways adopted Serbo-Croatian as its official language.

See also

• Narrow-gauge railways in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Sarajevo Tramway
• Transport in Bosnia and Herzegovina

External links

• ŽRS - Railways of Republika Srpska
• ŽFBH - Railways of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Timetable of train in B&H
• Bosnian passenger trains - photo gallery

References

1. ^ Danijel Kežić (2023). "The Bosnian and Serbian Narrow-Gauge Railways and the Construction of the Yugoslav Transport and Economic Space". In Danijel Kežić; Vladimir Petrović; Edvin Pezo (eds.). TAMING THE YUGOSLAV SPACE: Continuities and Discontinuities in Coping with the Infrastructural Challenges of the 20th Century. Belgrade & Regensburg: Institute of Contemporary History Belgrade & Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. pp. 19–44. doi:10.29362/2023.2794.kez.19-44.

• Rail transport in Bosnia and Herzegovina