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Just an hour outside of Prague is the oldest sugar-beet railway which was slowly renewed in the last 20 years. originally built as 700 mm by a local aristocrat to transport sugar beet to the sugar refinery. Here is what their website says about their history: It linked the refinery of Kolin (today you would…

Not exactly in Bosnia or Balkans, but Jindřichohradecká úzkokolejka shares the so called “Bosnian gauge” of 760mm. It consists of two branches: the southern one is 33 km long and opened in 1897, the northern one to Obrataň took longer to approve and finally saw trains running along its 46 km of length in 1906.…

I was very excited to explore what is left of Bosnia´s most stunning abandoned narrow gauge railway, Ostbahn, and bicycle seemed like a perfect way to do it. I prepared many pictures which I planned to recreate, unfortunately went without the drone that i crashed in Travnik, but it turned out I would not have…

We went to Travnik for an afternoon visit. This was the first bigger stop on Spalatobahn after it left the valley of Bosna. It is an important town for islam, hosting a medresa, islamic school. Medresa is located by the entrance to the town and the railway went just near it. This was the time…

Arguably the best place in Balkans for narrow gauge enthusiasts to be – Šargan 8. Serbs managed to rebuild a fascinating section on the railway between Višegrad and Užice which climbs the Šargan mountains via several loops, creating number 8, at the end of 90s. Train stations were renovated, tunnels repaired, track laid and rolling…