Tarvisio–Ljubljana Railway

Tarvisio–Ljubljana Railway
The Lesce-Bled train station
Overview
Native name	Železniška proga Ljubljana-Jesenice
Status	partly opened to traffic
Locale	Slovenia, formerly Italy
Operation
Opened	14 December 1870 (1870-12-14)
Operator(s)	Slovenian Railways
Technical
Line length	64.5 km (originally 103.7 km)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Electrification	3 kV DC
Operating speed	100 km/h (62 mph)
Route number	20
Route map Tarvisio-Ljubljana Railway from Villach 669.4 Tarvisio Centrale Pontebbana to Udine (old) Pontebbana from Udine (new) Tarvisio Boscoverde New Pontebbana to Villach 662.5 Fusine in Valromana 660.6 Fusine Laghi Italy / Slovenia 658.2 Ratece 652.6 Kranjska Gora 648.2 Gozd 640.0 Dovje-Mojstrana 633.3 Hrušica from Villach/Klagenfurt 630.2 Jesenice to Trieste 627.4 Slovenski Javornik 622.3 Žirovnica 617.3 Lesce Bled 610.6 Globoko 608.2 Otoče 605.3 Podnart from Naklo 594.5 Kranj 585.7 Škofja Loka 582.1 Reteče 578.2 Medvode 575.3 Medno 572.1 Ljubljana Vižmarje from Kamnik 570.1 Ljubljana Stegne 568.8 Litostroj 567.3 Ljubljana Šiška Line from Trieste (former Austrian Südbahn) 565.7 Ljubljana Line to Dobova and to Maribor (former Austrian Südbahn)

The Tarvisio–Ljubljana Railway (Slovene: Železniška proga Ljubljana - Jesenice) is a partially closed to traffic international railway line between Italy and Slovenia. It was opened in 1870 as part of the Austro-Hungarian Rudolfsbahn railway network. Today, only the Slovenian section between Jesenice and Ljubljana is still open to traffic, as part of the main line between Ljubljana and Villach in Austria; the cross-border section between Jesenice and Tarvisio has been closed to traffic since 1967 (Italian part) and 1969 (Slovenian part).

In 1869, the Kaiserlich-königliche privilegierte Kronprinz Rudolf-Bahn Gesellschaft (KRB, Imperial and Royal privileged company of the Crown Prince Rudolf railway), that had been formed for the construction and operation of the Rudolfsbahn railway line from St. Valentin to Tarvisio, received the concession to build a railway line linking Tarvisio and Ljubljana. The projected railway would follow the Sava valley from Ljubljana to Assling (now Jesenice) and Kronau (Kranjska Gora), then reach Tarvisio through Fusine in Valromana.

The railway line was opened on 14 December 1870.

In the first years of service, the end station in Tarvisio was located in an area south-west of the current Tarvisio Boscoverde station. A new station, the current Tarvisio Centrale, was opened when the railway line from Villach was inaugurated in 1873, and the Ljubljana line was connected to it, leading to disaffection of the first station, who was then known as Alt Tarvis (Old Tarvisio).