Classic route
EuroCity “Sava”
Zagreb → Ljubljana · Croatia · Slovenia
EuroCity “Sava” in pictures
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- Distance
- 141 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 32 min
- Average speed
- 56 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- HŽPP · Slovenske železnice
- Train
- SŽ series 342 electric locomotive · EuroCity coaches
- Countries
- Croatia, Slovenia
- In service since
- 1862
- Runs
- 2–3× daily direct
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The EC “Sava” restored a direct Zagreb–Ljubljana run, and since June 2025 extends once a week onward to Pula for the first time in 30 years.
The EuroCity “Sava” names its own scenery: from Zagreb the line joins the river at the Slovenian border and barely leaves it, threading the wooded Sava gorge where castle ruins and monastery walls hang above the water. Zidani Most, the junction where the 1849 Austrian Südbahn from Vienna to Trieste meets the Zagreb branch of 1862, remains one of Central Europe’s prettiest railway crossroads. Two and a half unhurried hours between the two capitals of the former Yugoslav north.
How this line was checked
- The 113 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 3436912 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
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of EC 214
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Sava crossing at the border
- Sevnica castle above the river
- Sava gorge narrows
- Zidani Most junction
- Ljubljana castle skyline
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