YUGOSLAV RAILWAY DEVELOPMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Yugoslavia
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO,
CONFIDENTIAL.
SUBJECT Yu;;oslav Railway DoveloF,nents
25X1A
6. Bridge, 20v rectors in length, over the Zeta River near the
of.Kliceve.
25X1A
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO. 25X1 X
I. Several technical schools for future railroad ernlloycce which have been
organized in Yugoslavia are known as "Railways of the Pioneers". Stu-
dents co..tbine actual work with classroom studies and are now ea} loycd
on a total of 675 kilometers of track, including new construction, re-
pair of war-damaged track are narrow Maui a track leading to mines and
saw--mills. Construction work by the students has boon curtailed to
ease extent by lack of ;:uiterials which formerly carte from Czechoslovakia
ano which now have be,. n ordered from Italy.
2. -7ork has been intensified on the Val di Pedena -- Stalije Section. of the
Stalije - Lupogluv line. This section, the only unfinished part of the
railroad, is scheduled to be coal letc,~ by the end of l919.
3. The new railroad line connecting Niksic with Titograd and passing
through Danilograd will be 55 kilometers in length and, for most of the
distance, will follow the course of the Zeta River. Railway stations
have been built at Niksic, ;:tubica, Ostrog, Slap, :ganilograd, Spuz and
Titograd. Principal bridges anc' tunnels of the line are as follows:
a. Bridge, 60 meters in ].cnQth, over the ;ioraca River near Titograd.
b. Viaciuct, 110 meters lon, on a curve of the railroad between the
villages of PPovija ano :3t,aLica.
c. Viaduct, 90 meters long, oetween the station of Stubica and the
village itself.
e. Tunnel, 1200 meters in length, be,;inning at the Zeta River and
extending in a southerly direction towards the village of 'iedvede.
)a. The construction of the Sanac - Sarajevo line yrill have both economic
and military advantaea. Beginning at Samac, a town on the .".-ava River
linked by trunk line to Vinkovci on the main Belgrade-Za;reb line, the
new railroad will extend this line to the center of Bosnia.
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Economically, this line will link the mineral areas of Sarajevo, Zenica
and Vares with the Eelgrade-Zagreb line, the most important one in the
country. The economic and military advantages are as follows,
a. In the past the coal basins of Zenica, Kakanj and Breza and the
iron ore and chrome deposits of Vares, Ljubija and Drikaja have
not been developed extensively because of the difficulty in
transporting materials to industrial areas. Aside from facili-
tating the exploitation of already existing mines,, it will per-
mit the transportation of machinery for the development of newly
discovered coal fields at Pribini Teanje, (sic) Teslio, Maglaj,
Zepce, Novo Sehor and Monte Krn and the now iron ore fields of
Srednji, Cevljanovic, Fob?nic and Kresevo.
b. From a military point of view, this will permit Northern Yugo-
slavia to be linked, via Sarajevo, with the port of Metkovic,
which is now being developed and is considered one of the ' safest
ports in the country. Technically, the railway has been con-
structed along; the old narrow-gauge track from Sarajevo to
Slavonaki Brod, where it follows the course of the JBosna River,
turns right to cross the Sava River and then continues to Samar.
Stations along the line are being built at Samar, Bosanski Samar, Modrica,
Kotorsko, Doboj, Usora, Tesanj, Maglaj, Zavidovic, Zepce, Vranduk, Zenica,
Larva, Kakanj, Visoko and Sarajevo.
6. The construction of this line was made t. ossible by the employment of
large numbers of Youth and Peopled' Front "volunteer" work brigades.
Hny of these groups were sent from great distances to participate in
the project. It is estimated that more than 160,000 workers, divided
into six groups of 30,000 each, have been employed on the line, each
group working an average of 15 days on the project. The entire length
of the line was divided into sections, and one or more work groups of
Soo men each were assigned to each section. The eleven sections into
which the line has been divided for construction purposes are:
Section 1 - Headquarters
Section 2 - ro
Section 3 - o~
Section 4 -
Section 5 -
Section 6 -
Section 7 -
Section 8 -
Section 9 -
Section 10-
Section 11-
at Modrica
" Doboj
Doboj
Maglaj
Unspecified site
Vranduk
Zenica
Lasva
Visoko
Sarajevo
Special section for the construction
of brJ1ges on the Sava and Samac Rivers
and the tunnel through Vranduk Mt.
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