Classic route
Kočevje Line
Ljubljana → Kočevje · Slovenia
- Distance
- 69 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 31 min
- Average speed
- 45 km/h
- Operator
- SŽ
- Train
- SŽ regional
- Countries
- Slovenia
- In service since
- 1893
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Built in 1893 for the Kocevje coal and the forests behind it, closed to passengers for half a century, and carrying them again since 2021 through Ribnica and the Slovene karst.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 14620139 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
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