Scenic route
Sarajevo–Ploče line
Sarajevo → Ploče · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Croatia
Sarajevo–Ploče line in pictures
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- Distance
- 194 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 57 km/h
- Top speed
- 70 km/h
- Operator
- ŽFBiH · HŽPP
- Train
- Talgo trainset
- Countries
- Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
- In service since
- 1966
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Threads the plunging Neretva canyon between the Prenj and Čvrsnica massifs, then follows the river down to the Adriatic at Ploče through 106 tunnels.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 2674114 (169 km), relation 1646595 (30 km) — 192 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: ŽFBiH red vožnje — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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