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Ohrid line


The Ohrid line was a narrow gauge railway line in what is now the Republic of Macedonia. It ran to a gauge of 600 mm (1 ft 11 58 in).

The route was: SkopjeGostivarKičevoPodmolje () - Ohrid, a distance of 167 km.

The section from Skopje - Gostivar was converted to standard gauge in the 1950s. The remaining 600 mm lines were closed altogether in 1966. The standard gauge line now runs as far as Kičevo.

Immediately before World War I, the area of Vardar Macedonia was part of Serbia, rather than Austria-Hungary. During the war it came under Bulgarian occupation. The railway was built as part of a military railway during this occupation and so was built to the Bulgarian 600 mm Feldbahn standards, rather than the 760 mm (2 ft 5 1516 in) Bosnian gauge of the Austro-Hungarian railways that would later become so well known as part of narrow gauge railways in Yugoslavia. Construction of the 600 mm line between Gradsko and Drenovo began on 26 February 1916. Construction of the Ohrid line began that summer and by 1923 the line ran from the General Hanris station (today Gorce Petrov) on the western edge of Skopje, through to Ohrid.


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