Croatia - Older General Information

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Introduction

This document acts as an archive for Recent and Future Changes prior to December 2020.

Changes in 2020

Services on the cross-border line between Erdut and Bogojevo (Serbia) were suspended on 12 March 2020 due to Covid travel restrictions, but were not restored and there were no services shown in the 2020-2021 timetable starting 13 December 2020.

Changes in 2019

The 12.2 km cut-off linking Gradec on the Zagreb – Križevci – Koprivnica line with Sveti Ivan Žabno on the Križevci – Bjelovar branch opened on 15 December 2019. A new table 22 was created in the timetable.

Changes in 2018

Passenger services from Beli Manastir to Magyarboly (Hungary) restarted from 9 December 2018.

Passenger services were restored over the whole of the Banova Jaruga – Daruvar – Pčelić route (table 41) on 5 February 2018.

Changes in 2016

The only passenger service [a pair of day trains between Sarajevo and Zagreb] using the Dobrljin ŽRS - Volinja HŽ border crossing were withdrawn at the December 2016 Timetable change

Changes in 2015

The following lines reopened at the timetable change on 14 December 2015:

  • 30/47 Erdut - Bogojevo (Serbia)
  • 42 Pleternica - Čaglin

and the following line lost its passenger service:

  • 61 Bubnjarci - Metlika (Slovenia) [Subsequently reopened from an unknown date]

Changes in 2014

The following lines reopened at the timetable change on 14 December 2014:

  • 13 Đurmanec - Sveti Rok ob Sotli (Slovenia)
  • 17 Macinec - Središče (Slovenia)
  • 18 Mursko Središče - Lendava (Slovenia)
  • 31 Beli Manastir - Magyarbóly (Hungary) but was suspended soon afterwards due to the refugee crisis.

As part of an economy programme, services over the following lines were withdrawn from 24 April 2014:

  • 41 Banova Jaruga – Daruvar
  • 45 Strizivojna-Vrpolje – Slavonski Šamac
  • 74 Ploče – Metković
  • 71 Knin – Zadar, although this is supposedly only whilst major engineering work is undertaken.

Changes in 2013

The following changes were made with the 2013-2014 timetable commencing 15 December 2013:

  • 61 The cross border (Karlovac -) Kamanje HŽ - Rosalnice SŽ (- Metlika) service was reinstated
  • 74 The international train between Sarajevo and Ploče was withdrawn leaving just local Metkovic - Ploče services [but see above]. This was the opposite of what was announced earler by HZ.

Changes in 2012

The following changes were made with the 2012-2013 timetable commencing 9 December 2012:

  • 12 The cross border (Čakovec -) Kotoriba HŽ - Murakeresztúr MÁV service lost all passenger services.
  • 31 The cross border line from Beli Manastir to Magyarboldy (MÁV) lost all passenger services
  • 45 The cross border line from (Strizivojna-Vrpolje -) Slavonski Šamac HŽ - Šamac ŽFBH - (Doboj) closed
  • 47 Vukovar Borovo Naselje - Dalj lost all passenger services, whereupon
  • 47a Vukovar Borovo Naselje - Vukovar was increased from 1 daily service to/from Zagreb to up to 5 pairs a day to/from Vinkovci
  • 61 The cross border (Karlovac -) Kamanje HŽ - Rosalnice SŽ (- Metlika) service was withdrawn.
  • 90 Lupoglav - Buzet had a passenger service only at Easter and summer 2012, but was not shown as running in 2013 so the last train ran in August 2012.

Changes in 2010

The following changes were made in the 2010/2011 Timetable:

  • 17 Macinec - Središče (Slovenia) Line closed 11 December 2010
  • 32 Bizovac - Belišće: Officially closed to passenger on 11 December 2010
  • 42 Partial reopening: 2 train pairs from Osijek travel 3 km to Našice Grad for onward buses to Pleternica. All other service are provided by buses from the junction station at Našice.
  • 48 (Drenovci -) Gunja - Brčko (Bosnia-Herzegovina) lost its sole cross-border service 11 December 2010
  • 71 Knin - Zadar, which had been under threat of closure, was reduced from five to three pairs a day.
  • 90 Lupoglav - Buzet, the cross-border service to Slovenia was reduced to 1 Easter & Summer-only train each way.

It had been widely reported that all Croatia - Hungary cross-border lines would lose their local passenger services but they continued for one further year before withdrawal on 9 December 2012.

It was reported early in 2010 that HŽ planned to withdraw over 200 passenger trains, resulting in a number of lines having no service at weekends. On 5 May 2010 the Ministry of Transport rejected this list but announced "temporary closure" of 3 lines from 16 May owing to track defects, with resulting bus substitutions. Therefore on 17 May 2010 the following sections lost all train services:

  • 41 part: Sirač- Pčelić
  • 42 part: Pleternica - Našice
  • Knin - Licko Dugo Polje (on the line to Bihac, where passenger services had been suspended since the civil war) lost its remaining freight traffic.

Changes in 2008

The following routes were reinstated in the 2008/2009 timetable (the first two were casualties of the 1990s Croatian war of independence):

  • Vukovar-Borovo Naselje - Vukovar [but only one train per day each way]
  • Vinkovci - Osijek direct
  • Savski Marof - Harmica (trains between Savski Marof and Kumrovec via Harmica were replaced by buses, due to poor track condition, in 2001)
  • Ogulin avoiding line (after a gap of some years, again used by fast services between Zagreb and Split)

Track has been lifted from the war-damaged line from Karlovac to Sisak, but passenger services have been introduced over two lines that were freight-only under JŽ:

  • Bjelovar to Kloštar and
  • Bizovac to Belišće

Čulinec and Sesvete – Zagreb Klara staff trains via Ranžirni Kolodvor Zagreb ceased as from the 2008/2009 timetable.

The line from Erdut to Bogojevo (Serbia) reopened to freight traffic on 8 August 2008 following rebuilding of the river bridge damaged by bombing in 1999. A limited passenger service commenced on 14 December 2015.

Changes in 2001

Cross-border services to Bosnia-Herzegovina resumed in 2001/2002 between Volinja and Dobrljin, between Slavonski Šamac and Bosanski Šamac and between Drenovci and Brčko via Gunja but all subsequently lost passenger services. It was reported that the line between Knin and Bihac reopened early in 2001, but no passenger service was ever advertised.

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