Heritage route
Šargan Eight
Mokra Gora → Šargan Vitasi · Serbia
Šargan Eight in pictures
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- Distance
- 15.5 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h (round trip)
- Top speed
- 15 km/h
- Operator
- Srbijavoz
- Train
- Narrow-gauge heritage railbus “Nostalgia” (Ćira) · Class 83 diesel
- Countries
- Serbia
- In service since
- 1925
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 760 mm loop climbing 300 m through 22 tunnels and 5 bridges in a literal figure-eight to gain height.
How this line was checked
- The 16 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 8345558 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Srbija Voz — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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