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Društvo za Bohinjsko-goriško progo / The Bohinj-Gorica line society was established in autumn 2003. According to the motto 'Let's wake the Sleeping Beauty', the society members are trying to raise the expert assessing of the value and potentials of the railway line Jesenice – Nova Gorica – Trieste/Sežana and the connecting routes, to inform the public and the authorised institutions about the results of these assessments, and also to make the line a culturally valued object within the broader social context. All these goals are aimed at through numerous lectures, consultations, excursions, public relations and providing help and information to all those who are interested in the topic. Any body interested in railways, who could in any way contribute to achieving our common goals, is heartily welcome to become the member of our society.

BOHINJSKA PROGA - THE BOHINJ LINE  

        In 1909 one of the last majestic projects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Trans-Alpine connection of the Central Austria, Bohemia and Bavaria with Trieste, was completed. Separate sections of the so-called Transalpina line was named by the mountain ranges that the line crossed, therefore we know the Pyhrn-, the Tauern-,  the Karawanken-, the Bohinj and the Karst railways.

The Bohinj line that was inaugurated by the Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand on July 19, 1906 is known as the toughest and most complex section of the Transalpina line. Certainly the most famous objects along the line are the tunnel of Bohinj (its length nowadays is 6327 m) and the viaduct in Solkan with the largest stone arch among the railway bridges in the world (its span measures 85 m). Architecturally highly important are also the Nova Gorica railway station building, combining elements of historicism and secession, as well as the engine-shed building at the same station, one of the most buildings of this type in Central Europe.
The southern part of the Karawanken line, the Bohinj line and the major part of the Karst line are on the Slovene territories nowadays. It was the unfriendly historical situation in this part of Europe that prevented the century-old railway masterpieces from destruction, enabling the present-day generations to admire the almost unchanged layout of the buildings and objects along the line.
	There are regular connections on the lines Jesenice – Nova Gorica – Sežana and Nova Gorica – Ajdovščina. Additional attraction of this picturesque route is raised by old timer steam train rides and by the car train through the tunnel of Bohinj, which all invigorate the programme offered to tourists in the wider area of the western Slovenia. Disappearing of the borders in the European Union also represent a great opportunity to this railway line to develop its functional, as well as cultural importance.

(Translation by Urška Lahajnar)

Društvo za Bohinjsko-goriško progo

Stjenkova 36

SI-5290 Šempeter pri Gorici

Slovenija

Tel.: +386 5 393 61 05

http://freeweb.siol.net/bohproga

boh.gor.proga@siol.net

Information on the  passenger- and the car-trains timetables:

Holding Slovenske železnice d.o.o.

Slovenske železnice - Potniški promet d.o.o.

Tel. +386 1 29 13 332, 29 14 322, www.slo-zeleznice.si

Information on the old timer steam train timetables:

- Jesenice - Most na Soči: ABC Rent a car d.o.o., tel. +386 1 510 43 20, http://abc.ponudba.com/uvod-2.html  

- Gorizia Centrale - Nova Gorica - Bled jezero: Club d.o.o., tel. +386 5 381 30 50, www.club.si

More about the Bohinj line: www2.arnes.si/~mmarus6 (in the slovene language)

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