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[32] [33] Ferry line between Zadar and Preko on the island of Ugljan (northern Dalmatia) is the most frequent one in Croatia and the rest of the Adriatic - in the summer sailing schedule on this 3-nautical-mile-long line (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) there is around 20 departures per day in each direction. [34]
A cable car (usually known as a cable tram outside North America) is a type of cable railway used for mass transit in which rail cars are hauled by a continuously moving cable running at a constant speed. Individual cars stop and start by releasing and gripping this cable as required.
Croatian Railways was founded in 1991 from the former JŽ ("Yugoslav Railways") Zagreb Division, following Croatia's secession from Yugoslavia.Its vehicle fleet was initially the one it inherited at the time of the breakup of Yugoslavia.
One common form of incline is the funicular – an isolated passenger railway where the cars are permanently attached to the cable. [4] In other forms, the cars attach and detach to the cable at the ends of the cable railway. Some cable railways are not steeply graded - these are often used in quarries to move large numbers of wagons between ...
The D8 state road is the Croatian section of the Adriatic Highway, running from the Slovenian border at Pasjak via Rijeka, Senj, Zadar, Šibenik, Split, Opuzen, and Dubrovnik to the border with Montenegro at Karasovići. [maps 1] [1] Most of the D8 state road remains single carriageway, though with some dual carriageway stretches. The total ...
In travel news this week: A spectacular new cable car has opened in Switzerland’. Also, the science and folklore of winter solstice and skiing across international borders.
At noon a straggled procession was formed of the system's 9 remaining vehicles which filed one by one into the depot which shut its gates without ceremony at 12:30. That was the end of the Dubrovnik trams. Road transport services in the city are now exclusively operated by buses. The tramways carried around 100 million passengers during its six ...
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