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THE BELGRADE-BAR RAILROAD, in terms of construction and
traffic requirements, is one of the toughest railways in
Europe.
§ The railroad line is 476 km long. Due to the difficult
terrain and large investments, it had to be single track, with
axle load of 25 t.
§ Depending on the railroad line elements (gradients and radius
of curves) the trains run at the speed of 75-100 km/h between
the stations. The line goes mainly through mountainous regions
with maximum gradient of 25%. The lowest altitude point on the
railway is in Bar (3 m) and the highest one in Kolasin (1032
m). One of the features of this railway is that 24% of its total
length is in tunnels.
§ There are 254 tunnels with the total length of 114,437 m.
§ The tunnels longer than 4,000 m include:
- Zlatibor 6,169 m,
- Goles 4,964 m,
- Trebesica 5,170 m,
- Sozina 6,171 m.
§ Defying water flows, valleys and canyons, 206 concrete
bridges were built in the length of 10,760 m and 28 steel bridges of
the total length 3,833 m.
§ The bridges longer than 300 m are:
- Lim III 395 m,
- Ljubovija 311 m,
- Tara II 340 m,
- Mala Rijeka 499 m.
§ The railroad is electrified by monophase system 25 kV 50 Hz.
Transportation is 8,000,000 gross tons per annum.
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