L202 railway (Croatia)
| L202 railway | |
|---|---|
| Overview | |
| Type | Local rail |
| Status | Active |
| Locale | Krapina-Zagorje County, Croatia |
| Operation | |
| Opened | June 18, 1916 |
| Owner | HŽ Infrastruktura (present) |
| Operator(s) | Croatian Railways (present) |
| Technical | |
| Line length | 10.823 km (6.725 mi) |
| Number of tracks | 1 |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge |
| Electrification | No |
| Operating speed | Up to 60 km/h (37 mph) |
The Hum Lug-Gornja Stubica railway, officially designated as the L202 railway, is a 10.823 km (6.725 mi) railway line of local significance in Croatia that connects the station Gornja Stubica (corridor's east terminus) along with the halts Donja Stubica, Stubičke Toplice and Oroslavje with the R201 railway corridor (Zaprešić-Čakovec) in Hum Lug.
The line is officially opened on June 18, 1916 in former Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (autonomous kingdom within the Austro-Hungarian Empire; present day Croatia). Like the rest of railway corridors in Krapina-Zagorje County, the line is single-tracked and non-electrified. All of scheduled passenger trains that operate on this line run between Gornja Stubica (east terminus) and Zabok (about 2 kilometers south from Hum Lug) or more south to Zagreb, using the corridor R201 between Hum Lug and Zabok (Zagreb). Most of trains that run on route between Gornja Stubica and Zabok have daily connections in Zabok with trains that run on R201, largest destinations served through this corridor being Zagreb and Varaždin. According to current schedule, passenger train ride between Zabok and Gornja Stubica takes 17 minutes in total.
Corridor L202 originates out of the corridor R201 in halt Hum Lug. On L202 route, Stubičke Toplice is the only stop that hosts only one track - halts Donja Stubica and Oroslavje have an extra added track made for cargo manipulations, although these tracks are nowadays rarely served (if ever). Last bigger infrastructure repair on this corridor took place in mid-2000's, which resulted in increasing of maximum speed for passenger trains from approximately 30 km/h (approximately 18 mph) to 60 km/h (approximately 37 mph) on entire route between Hum Lug and Gornja Stubica. Like the majority of Croatian railway lines, this line is not equipped with neither automatic block signaling or centralized traffic control (especially due to its short distance) and station signalmen in Gornja Stubica and Zabok mutually provide traffic regulation on this route through telegraph way. Therefore, only one train at a time is permitted to operate or be situated between these two stations.
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