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Croatian Railways (Croatian: Hrvatske željeznice; abbreviated as HŽ) was the national railway company of Croatia. [1] It was a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Croatia is 78. The Croatian rail network carried 24.230 million passengers in 2023. [2] [3] [4]
Railways for international traffic are: main (corridor) lines, which are located on international railway corridors and their branches (corridors RH1, RH2 and RH3); other lines for international traffic, which within railway hubs and outside them functionally connect the main (corridor) lines or which international sea and river ports and terminals connect with the main (corridor) lines
The 1142 series reached a speed of 183.7 km/h on a prototype test run. This is still the Croatian speed record for any locomotive, since there are no official railway routes which allow for more than 160 km/h. This prototype is still in regular use today, with speed limited to production series levels.
Construction length of the railway network is 2617 km; 1626.12 mi. (2341 km; /1454.63 mi. of single-track corridors and 276 km / 171.49 mi. of double-track corridors). 1013 km (629.44 mi.) of railways are electrified, according to the annual rail network public report of Croatian Railways (2023 issue). [8]
The Čakovec–Mursko Središće railway, officially designated L101 railway, is a 17.942-kilometre (11.149 mi) railway line in Croatia connecting the cities of Čakovec and Mursko Središće. [ maps 1 ] The railway line links to the Slovene railway line to Lendava to the north of Mursko Središće. [ 1 ]
Croatian Railways also has cars jointly produced by the factories "Janko Gredelj" and "Boris Kidrič" in the mid-1980s, that were reconstructed and modernized in TŽV Gredelj between 2011 and 2012. Cars received air-conditioning, new side doors with automatic control, complete new interior, closed vacuum toilet system, etc.
Since the system started operating, the lines have been serviced by HŽ series 6111 EMU's built by Ganz. In 2011, a prototype of a new series of EMU trains for suburban traffic of the City of Zagreb was handed over to the Croatian Railways for use by the KONČAR Group (series 6112-1 and 6 112–2; suburban version). Between 2015 and 2023, an ...
With the highway construction programme in its final stages, the Croatian Parliament passed a bill to build the country's first high-speed line between Botovo, Zagreb, and Rijeka. [1] [2] The estimated 9.2 billion kuna ($1.6bn) project will modernize the existing Botovo–Zagreb line and construct a new line between Zagreb and Rijeka. While the ...