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STATION MOSTAR was built from 27 August 1884 to 13 June 1885, when the section of narrow gauge railway Metković (Croatia) – Mostar in the length of 42.4 km was opened to traffic. The first train on the test run passed on 12 April 1885 from Mostar to port of Metković. Because of the military and technical reasons, it was decided that the railway towards the port of Metković is built on the right bank of the Neretva River. The Austro-Hungarian government chose Karl Schwartz from Vienna as a builder of Southern Line. Construction began in 1884 and ended in 1885. In the reception building in Mostar station the railway administration and railway archives were located until the beginning of 1992 when during the war events building was set on fire. In the station system there was a repair shop for locomotives, wagons and stokeholds, as well as parking space for locomotives.
STATION CAPLJINA Pruga uskog kolosijeka ili uskotračna pruga Gabela – Zelenika ukinuta je 1976. godine, dok je zadnji Ćiro kroz Čapljinu protutnjao 6.11.1966. godine. Zgrada Kolodvora u Čapljini porušena je 1998. godine. Ostala su samo četiri platana koja čuvaju uspomenu na uskotračnu željezničku prugu.
STATION GABELA nalazi se 6,7 metara nad morem, bio je polazna postaja za željezničke pruge uskog kolosijeka (0,76 m) Gabela – Zelenika u Boki Kotorskoj (Crna Gora), Hum – Trebinje i Uskoplje – Gruž u Dubrovniku (Republika Hrvatska). Bile su to pruge prvenstveno vojnostrateškog značaja puštene u promet u srpnju 1901. godine. Ovaj je kolodvor pretvoren u stajalište 29. studenoga 1966. godine, kada je puštena u promet pruga normalnog kolosijeka Sarajevo – Ploče (Republika Hrvatska). Za stalno prestaje s radom 31. svibnja 1976. godine, kada je ukinuta pruga Čapljina – Dubrovnik te Hum – Nikšić (Crna Gora).
STATION SJEKOSE s located on 146, 7 meters above sea level, it is place where trains crossed and loading of goods was carried out. Former railway transport forwarding office was also called Dardaneli entrance to the valley of the Neretva River. Station building was demolished at the end of the 1980s. The station had three tracks. Dardaneli entrance to the Neretva valley. The station building was demolished at the end of the 1980s. The station had three tracks.
STATION HRASNO (the village of Brštanica) is located 245 meters above the sea, where trains used to cross and load goods. It is located on the plateau of the village of Brštanice in Hrasno. It used to be a very important railway station where locomotives were fueled with coal and water from the reservoir via the feeder ("gran"). The cistern/reservoir is located above the station, in the once landscaped park in the Tsarska ograda. It is a unique building on the railways in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond. The reservoir is supplied with rainwater that is collected in channels and three open reservoir collectors, and under them a closed reinforced concrete cistern with a capacity of 7,000 cubic meters of water is built. It was the largest construction of applied reinforced concrete in hydraulic engineering in this part of Europe.
MAIN STATION HUTOVO nalazi se 310 m nad morem. Prijamna zgrada tipske gradnje (kao u Zavali i Sutorini) posjedovala je i cisternu za vodu. Kolodvor je imao četiri kolosijeka i vojnu rampu uz slijepi kolosijek (šturc) te Heizen (grijati) ložionicu koja je kasnije pretvorena dijelom u robno skladište i stambeni prostor. Kolodvor je mogao primati vlakove do 90 osovina i dvije radne lokomotive. Iz Hutova za Čapljinu i obratno vozio je lokalni vlak zvani Boko by personal name Boko common in this area. From Hutov there was also a local from Dubrovnik to Dubrovnik and vice versa.
STRAŽARA/STAJALIŠTE ZELENIKOVAC – Here used to be a railway station for local trains. This is the building where the guard and the track foreman lived. The preserved object along the route is a tool magazine and wagonet of the railway party (tenths) of workers who maintained a certain section of the railway. There is an artificial lake below the stop Vrutak/Hutovo. Voda se iz jezera odvodi tunelom dugim 8,8 km. na turbine u Svitavu. Jezero se puni vodom rijeke Trebišnjice koja teče betoniranim kanalom (njenim bivšim koritom) dužine 68 km do Trebinja. Betonirani kanal je najveća betonska ploča na svijetu. U jezeru ima razne vrste ribe; šarana, pastrmke, ugora, gaovice, riječnih školjki… There is a kind of fish that is very tasty and enhances sexual potency (...) They say to a potent man: Ah man, you must have eaten fish from Popovo, wrote the Turkish travel writer Evlija Celebi around 1660 when he passed through this part of Herzegovina.
STATION TURKOVICI it is located 278 m above sea level. Trains crossed on it and goods were loaded. The reception building is occupied and has a water tank. The people of the Turkovići village used to be the best fishermen and wild duck hunters, when the water of Trebišnjica flooded Popovo polje. Individuals were able to catch up to 700 ducks in one night. The Turkovics had about 10 boats each called "barćele" and a ship. They also provided transport services across the mud (water) for passengers from Gornji Hrasno to the train to Turkovići. From the other side of the water, they would call "O Ilija (or someone else) come and transport me". That call saved a pea farmer when he got lost in America, in an unknown place, and he didn't know the language. Out of agony, a man shouted on the street: "Oh, Ilija Balić, come and take me home". A countryman approached him and saved the man. This place is also a viewpoint from which you can see a large part of the Popovski field and the two famous caves Crnulja and Doljašnica, and a thousand smaller ones that swallowed the most water while the field was sinking. Their water springs from Svitava and Hutovo blat, to Metković and along the coast towards Neum and Rijeka Dubrovačka near Dubrovnik.
GUARD/ STOP TRNCINA she had a phone. The guard of the railway and the railway foreman, who managed the railway party of workers who maintained a certain section of the railway, lived there. It also has a water tank. S lijeve strane, nasuprot zgrade stražare, bio je i magazin za smještaj radničkog alata i pružnog vagoneta. Ovdje su stajali lokalni vlakovi. Ispod, na polju, nalazi se zavjetna kapelica sv. Ane.
STATION VELJA MEDA it is located 291 meters above sea level. Trains crossed on it and goods were loaded. The station building was built about thirty meters above the tracks on a stone wall and a rock to which stone steps lead. Recently, a new access to the building was built, which was turned into a residential area that also has a water tank. A smaller room along the route was used for operational traffic tasks. Above the village are hills rich in various medicinal plants, from which bees used to collect wagonloads of honey. The freight train would stop on the open track and the hives with bees would be unloaded, as well as the hives full of honey.
GUARD OFFICE/DVRSNICA STOP she had a phone. The guard of the railway and the railway foreman, who managed the railway party of workers who maintained a certain section of the railway, lived there. On the left side, opposite the guard building, there was also a magazine for the accommodation of workers' tools and railway wagons. Local trains stopped here, receiving passengers from the village on the other side of the field.
STATION RAVNO it is located 319 m above sea level. The station reception building of typical construction is now a catering and tourist facility. During the railway era, the road from the direction of the field crossed the railway on the transition ramp and continued on its way in front of the Burić inn, the post office, the supervisor's office, behind the station building and further to the center of the town and Zavala. The road and civil facilities were fenced off from the track area with railings (iron fence). The station had three station tracks and could receive trains with 90 axles. In addition to the reception building, the building of the cellular goods magazine remains. On the one hand, the narrow-gauge railway from Ravni continued through Dvrsnica and Velja Međa towards Hutovo, while towards Zavala, it descended through Mala Dubravica and the hill Ljuljevac down the longest wall (about 500 m.) on the route, with a drop of 12 per thousand. On that part there is an iron bridge/viaduct that bridges the deep cut of the canyon. From the viaduct, the path enters the Gradina tunnel L= 340.75 m. In front of the entrance to the tunnel is a stone marker for the 224th km of the railway from Sarajevo. The tunnel was broken in a year.
STATION ZAVALA it is located 266 meters above sea level, and is a typical station building like in Hutovo and Sutorina. Station II. category with train dispatcher was later reduced to station dispatching. The reception building and track area was built on a high wall with a culvert that was a village passage for horse-drawn carriages, but was buried when the partisan memorial ossuary was built. When the sub-wall was being built, the emperor in Vienna was told that it could not be built. He answered with the question "Can a kilo of stone, a kilo of gold? It can. And it was built. All local, passenger and high-speed trains stopped in Zavala for the "scaffolding" from the train to the sea in Slano, Croatia. At the entrance to the station area from the direction of Ravno, there was an auxiliary water tank for supplying water to locomotives via feeders (branches) on special occasions. In the water tank (reservoir) coal pump it dumped water from railway tanks. The station received passengers from the vast hinterland and the Dubrovnik coast. It is interesting to mention that until the railroad was abolished in 1975, there was one tourist train every day in the afternoon from Dubrovnik to Zavala in the summer season.
GUARD/STANDARD GRMLJANI she had a phone. The guard of the railway and the railway foreman who managed the railway lived there party workers who maintained a certain section of the railway. Next to the guard building is a warehouse for the storage of workers' tools and railway wagons. Local trains stopped here. They received passengers from the hinterland of Grmljan.
STATION POLJICE it is located 270 meters above the sea, where trains used to cross and load goods. The station building is a typical building above the track space on the subwall, next to the building is a water tank. The goods magazine and the exit signal (traffic light) towards Grmljani are still standing. The station received passengers from both sides of the field. And now there is a road connected to the main road Trebinje - Stolac - Mostar. In the village there are two Orthodox churches and a necropolis with 16 stećaks in two groups. There is also a partisan monument on the plateau of the station.
GUARD/STOP DIKLIĆI she had a phone. The guard of the railway and the railway foreman who managed the railway lived there party workers who maintained a certain section of the railway. Next to the building is a water tank. Next to the guard building is a magazine for the storage of workers' tools and railway carriages. Local trains stopped here. They received passengers from both sides of the railway line.
STATION JASENICA LUG it is located 266.8 meters above sea level, where trains used to cross and load goods. The reception building is of the same type as in Hrasno. The building is located on the flat terrain of Luga, next to it is a water tank. In the tourist guide in 1926, it is written that from this station it was possible to walk 3 hours to the distant village of Grebci, where there are 30 caves.
STATION HUM nalazi se 270 metara nad morem, a prijemna stanična zgrada je tipska iz dva bloka, kao u Trebinju i Uskoplju (po jedan blok). Stanični prostor izgrađen je nedaleko od sela Huma na Bjelin dolu, mjestu na kojem su se od antike i srednjeg vijeka ukrštali karavanski putovi. Od 1901. godine Hum je postao najveće željezničko čvorište na pruzi od Sarajeva do Zelenike i Podgorice u Crnoj Gori. Nakon 1966. bio je najveće željezničko čvorište, ranžirna, rasporedna i prolazna stanica prema Zeleniki i Dubrovniku, te odvojna stanica prema Trebinju i Nikšiću. Stanica je imala 14 koloseka (8 manipulativnih) i izlazne prema Trebinju i Uskoplju. Za okretanje lokomotiva, pa i cijelih kompozicija, služio je triangl, a ne okretaljka. Triangl je zapravo spajao Trebinjsku i Uskopaljsku prugu. Preko dva vodonapojnika (gran) lokomotive su primale vodu. Radila je i radionica za popravku kola i lokomotiva Mostar, a imala je na Humu ispostavu, „kolsku“ radionicu. (Radila je i radionica za popravku kola i lokomotiva koja je na Humu imala ispostavu, „kolsku“ radionicu). A i lokomotive su primale ugalj. Radilo je i nadzorništvo pruge. U jednom turnusu (za 24 sata) stanicom je prolazilo preko 60 redovnih i vanrednih vozova (teretnih, putničkih, lokalnih, brzih, i motornih). Godine 1967. na Humu je uspostavljena „mini direkcija“. Bilo je to sjedište Radne jedinice saobraćajno-transportne djelatnosti (STD) u sistemu ŽTP-a Sarajevo za pruge nevezane željezničke mreže južno od Čapljine. Dok su vlakovi zviždali, tukli i huktali preko Huma, na stanici se kretao veliki broj putnika i željezničkog osoblja. Nakon ukidanja pruge i demontaže kolosijeka u ljeto 1976. na kolosiječnom prostoru pred željezničkom stanicom izgrađen je pogon za proizvodnju “glava za narezivanje navoja” Industrije alata iz Trebinja u suradnji sa češkom tvrtkom „Nažadi“ iz Praga. Fabrika je 1991. prestala sa radom. U ratu je stanična upravna zgrada dijelom porušena.
MAIN STATION USKOPLJE it was located 350 meters above sea level. The one-story reception building was stone-walled. In addition to the official rooms on the ground floor and the restaurant on the first floor of the building, there were three, and two more apartments in the attic for railway employees. The building had all the accompanying necessary facilities. There were three entrance signals here for three entrances to the station which was a minor hub and marshalling yard until it was abolished zelenicke pruge On July 1, 1968, there was one railroad going in from Hum, and two going east and south from Uskoplje. Zelenica railway from the exit junction, it turned left below the village of Uskoplja and wound up the hill with a 17.5 per mile climb towards Glavska and further to Zelenika in Boka Kotorska. The second railway went out in the direction of Ivanica and entered the Republic of Croatia through a tunnel, then with a gradient of 27.8 per thousand it went down serpentines towards Dubrovnik. Here, due to the large slope of the railway, the freight compositions were divided and with two steam locomotives of the 83 series descended to Dubrovnik. Kolodvor had 7 tracks (the third passing track was for Dubrovnik) with 14 switches. After the cancellation of the Zelenička railway, three tracks and a turner for turning locomotives (11.90) remained, of which only the "headquarters" and the switchman's house remained. Several films were shot here, and Ivanica was the location of the "Cowboy Town" where five films about Winnetou were shot from 1962 to 1966. The city was attractive to travelers who took the train to Dubrovnik and Zelenika and vice versa.
STATION TREBINJE it is located 275.6 meters above sea level, and was an important railway center. The station building along the Trebišnjica river is of the same type as the one in Hum, but one block shorter. It had six tracks and blind 7th and 8th for goods and military magazine. It was the home station for traffic officers of railway stations and accompanying staff from Hum to Bileća. In the past, 4 passenger, high-speed and 2 motor trains, 4 pairs of local trains and about 22 freight trains passed through the Trebinje railway station daily. It owned up to 25 steam locomotives, and since 1970 also diesel-hydraulic locomotives of the 740 series. One steam locomotive of the 83 series remains as a museum exhibit. The station also had supporting facilities: a battery station, a workshop for repairing locomotives and track supervision, a magazine, a turnbuckle (turntable) for turning locomotives, a water fountain with a hand pump. The tall building of the water reservoir from which the locomotives received water through the feeder (branch) is still standing.
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STATION MOSTAR was built from 27 August 1884 to 13 June 1885, when the section of narrow gauge railway Metković (Croatia) – Mostar in the length of 42.4 km was opened to traffic. The first train on the test run passed on 12 April 1885 from Mostar to port of Metković. Because of the military and technical reasons, it was decided that the railway towards the port of Metković is built on the right bank of the Neretva River. The Austro-Hungarian government chose Karl Schwartz from Vienna as a builder of Southern Line. Construction began in 1884 and ended in 1885. In the reception building in Mostar station the railway administration and railway archives were located until the beginning of 1992 when during the war events building was set on fire. In the station system there was a repair shop for locomotives, wagons and stokeholds, as well as parking space for locomotives.
STATION ČAPLJINA – Railroad with narrow gauge or narrow gauge railway Gabela – Zelenika was abolished in 1976, while the last Ćiro thundered through Čapljina on 6 November, 1966. Station building in Čapljina was demolished in 1998. There are only four plane trees that keep the memory of narrow-gauge railway.
STATION GABELA is located 6.7 meters above sea level, and it was the starting point for narrow gauge railways (0.76 m) Gabela – Zelenika in Bay of Kotor (Montenegro), Hum – Trebinje and Uskoplje – Gruž in Dubrovnik (Croatia). Those were railways with primarily military and strategic importance opened to traffic in July 1901. This station was converted into a stop on 29 November, 1966, when railway with normal tracks Sarajevo – Ploče (Croatia) was opened for traffic. It has permanently stopped operating on 31 May, 1976, when railway Čapljina – Dubrovnik and Hum – Nikšić (Montenegro) was abolished.
STATION SJEKOSE is located on 146, 7 meters above sea level, it is place where trains crossed and loading of goods was carried out. Former railway transport forwarding office was also called Dardaneli entrance to the valley of the Neretva River. Station building was demolished at the end of the 1980s. The station had three tracks.
STATION HRASNO (village Brštanica) is located at 245 meters above sea level, it is a place where trains crossed and loading of goods was carried out. It is located on a plateau in the village Brstanica in Hrasno. Formerly it was a very important railway station where locomotives were supplied by coal and water from the reservoir through water tower („gran“). Cistern / tank is located above the station, in once landscaped park in Carska ograda (Imperial fence). It is a unique building on the railways in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond. The tank is supplied by rainwater which was collected to canals and three opened collector tanks, and beneath them closed reinforced concrete tank was built, with capacity of 7000 cubic meters of water. It was the largest structure of reinforced concrete applied in hydraulics in this part of Europe.
STATION HUTOVO is located at 310 meters above sea level. Reception building with typical construction (as in Zavala and Sutorina) had a water tank. Station had four tracks and military barrier along the dead-end track (Šturc) and Heizen (heat) stokehold which was later partly converted to the commodity warehouse and residential area. Station could receive trains to 90 shaft and two working locomotives. From Hutovo to Čapljina and vice versa drove the local train called Boko by personal name Boko common in this area. Local train for Dubrovnik and vice versa also operated from Hutovo.
GUARDHOUSE / VIEWPOINT ZELENIKOVAC – Here was a railway stop for local trains. It is the building where guard and rail manager lived. Preserved building along the route is the magazine for tool and wagon of railway group (tenth) of workers who used to miantain a certain section of the railway. Below the viewpoint there is an artificial lake Vrutak / Hutovo. The water from the lake drains through 8.8 km long tunnel on the turbines in Svitava. The lake is filled with water of Trebišnjica River, which flows through concrete channel (its former riverbed) in length of 68 km to Trebinje. Concrete channel is the largest concrete slab in the world. The lake has a variety of fish species; carp, trout, eel, minnows, river shells … “There’s a kind of fish that is very tasty and boosts sexual potency (…) Potent man is told: Ah man, you must have eaten fish from Popovo”, wrote the Turkish traveler Evliya Çelebi around 1660, when he passed through this part of Herzegovina.
STATION TURKOVIĆI is located at 278 meters above sea level. It is a place where trains crossed and loading of goods was carried out. Reception building is occupied and has a tank with water. The people of village Turkovići used to be the best anglers and hunters of wild ducks, when water of Trebišnjica River flooded Popovo Polje. Individuals could capture in a basket 700 pieces of duck per night. People from Turkovići had each up to 10 boats called “Barćele” and a ship. They also did the services of transportation over the mud (water) for travelers from “Gornje Hrasno” to train in Turkovići. On the other side of the water someone would call “O Ilija (or someone else) give me a ride.” This call saved a man from Hrasno who got lost in America in an unknown place, and did not know the language. In anguish, man on the street exclaimed: “Oooo Ilija Balić give me a ride home.” Countryman approached and saved the man. This place is a viewpoint from which one can see a large part “Popovsko Polje” and two famous caves Crnulja and Doljašnica and a thousand of small ones that swallowed most of the water while the field was sinking. Their water springs from Svitava and “Hutovo Blato” to Metković and along the coast to Neum and Rijeka Dubrovačka near Dubrovnik.
GUARDHOUSE / VIEWPOINT TRNČINA had the phone. Lineman and railway headman, who managed the group of railway workers who were maintaining a certain section of the railway, lived there. It has a water tank as well. On the left side, opposite the guardhouse, there was the magazine for workers’ tools and railway wagons. Local trains stopped here. Below in the field is a votive chapel of st. Ana.
STATION VELJA MEĐA is located at 291 meters above sea level. It is a place where trains crossed and loading of goods was carried out. Station building was built around thirty meters above the track on stone retaining walls and rock, and there are stone stairs that lead to it. Lately a new access was built to the facility which has been converted into residential building with a water tank. The smaller room along the route was used for operational traffic activities. Above the village there are hills rich in a variety of medicinal plants from which the bees used to collect a whole wagon of honey. Freight train would stop at the open line and unloading of chambers with bees, and loading of hives full of honey would be carried out.
GUARDHOUSE / VIEWPOINT DVRSNICA had the phone. Lineman and railway headman, who managed the group of railway workers who were maintaining a certain section of the railway, lived there. On the left side, opposite the guardhouse, there was the magazine for workers’ tools and railway wagons. Here stopped the local trains receiving passengers from the village from the other side of the field.
STATION RAVNO is located at 319 meters above sea level. Station reception building with typical construction is now catering and tourist facility. During the time of railways, from the direction of the field road crossed the tracks on a transitional ramp and continued the way in front of Burić Inn, post office, inspectorate, behind the station building and further to the town center and Zavala. Road and civilian buildings were enclosed with railings (iron fence) from gauge area. At the station there were three station tracks and it was able to receive trains with 90 axles. Besides the reception building, station merchandise magazine also remained. Narrow gauge railway from Ravno on one side went further over Dvrsnica and “Velja Međa” to Hutovo, while towards Zavala it descended on “Mala Dubravica” and hill Ljuljevac down the longest retaining wall (500 m) on the route, with the decline of 12 per thousand. On that section, there si an iron bridge / viaduct that spans a deep defile of the canyon. After the viaduct route enters a tunnel Gradina L = 340.75 m. Just before the entrance to the tunnel there is a stone marking of 224th km of railway from Sarajevo. The tunnel has been broken through in a year.
STATION ZAVALA is located at 266 meters above sea level, and it is a typical station building as in Hutovo and Sutorina. Station of second category with the dispatcher of trains, later was reduced to station forwarding department. Reception building and track area were built on high retaining walls with passage, a village pass for horse wagon, which was buried when the partisan mausoleum was built. When the retaining wall was built, the emperor in Vienna was told that it couldn’t be built. He answered with a question „How about a kilo of stone, a kilo of gold? “ Yes. And it was built. In Zavala all local, passengers and high-speed trains made a stop in order to „scaffold“ to train to seaside in Slano in Croatia. At the entrance to the station area from the direction of Ravno there was a backup water reservoir for supplying locomotives with water over water tower (gran) in special circumstances. Coal pump pumped out water into the water tank (reservoir) from railway tanks. Station received passangers from a wide hinterland and the coast of Dubrovnik. It is interesting to mention that until the abolition of the railway in 1975 from Dubrovnik to Zavala, in the summer season in the afternoon one tourist train would drive every day.
GUARDHOUSE/VIEWPOINT GRMLJANJI had a phone. Lineman and railway headman, who managed the group of railway workers who were maintaining a certain railway section, lived there. Beside the guardhouse there is a warehouse for workers’ tools and railway wagons. Local trains stopped here. They received passengers from the hinterland of Grmljani.
STATION POLJICE is located at 270 meters above sea level, it is a place where trains crossed and loading of goods was carried out. Station building is typical construction above track area on the retaining wall, and next to the building there is a water pit. Merchandise store and the output signal (traffic light) towards Grmljani still exist. The station received passengers on both sides of the field. Even now there is a road connected with the main road Trebinje – Stolac – Mostar. In the village there are two Orthodox churches, and a necropolis with 16 tombstones in two groups. On the plateau of the station there is a partisan monument.
GUARDHOUSE / VIEWPOINT DIKLIĆI had the phone. Lineman and railway headman, who managed the group of railway workers who were maintaining a certain railway section, lived there. Next to the building there is a water pit. Beside the guardhouse there is a warehouse for workers’ tools and railway wagons. Local trains stopped here. They received the passengers on both sides of the railway line.
STATION JASENICA LUG is located at 266.8 meters above sea level, it is a place where trains crossed and loading of goods was carried out. Reception building is typical construction as well as in Hrasno. The building is located on flat terrain of Lug, and there is a water pit next to it. The tourist guide from 1926 says that this station is 3 hours of walk away from remote village Grebci in which there are 30 caves.
STATION HUM is located at 270 meters above sea level, reception station building with typical construction has two blocks, as in Trebinje and Uskoplje (one block each). Station area was built near the village Hum on Bijelin Do, the place where caravan routes crossed since antiquity and the Middle Ages. Since 1901, Hum has become the largest railway junction on the railway line from Sarajevo to Zelenike and Podgorica in Montenegro. After 1966 it was the largest railway hub, shunting, organizing and transit station towards Zelenike and Dubrovnik, and separation station to Trebinje and Nikšić. The station had 14 tracks (8 manipulative) and exit to Trebinje and Uskoplje. For turning locomotives, and even entire compositions, they used triangle, not a rotator. Triangle was actually connecting railway tracks for Trebinje and Uskoplje. Using two water towers (gran) locomotives received water. Workshop for repairing wagons and locomotives Mostar had branch “wagon workshop” in Hum. Locomotives were receiving coal. Railway inspectorate was also operational. In one round (for 24 hours) over 60 regular and special trains passed through (freight, passenger, local, fast, and motor). In 1967, “mini directorate” was established in Hum. It was the headquarters of the Working units of traffic-transport activities (STD) in the system of Railway Transport Company Sarajevo, for unrelated railway network south of Čapljina. While the trains whistled, beat and roared through Hum, a large number of passengers and railway staff were moving through the station. After the abolition of the railway and dismantling the tracks in the summer of 1976, on the track area in front of the railway station a facility was built for production of “heads for thread cutting” by Tool Industry from Trebinje in cooperation with the Czech company “Nažadi” from Prague. The factory was closed in 1991. During the war station administration building was partly demolished.
STATION USKOPLJE was located at 350 meters above sea level. Reception building on two floors was built of stone. Beside the official premises on the ground floor and the restaurant on the first floor of the building, there were three, and on the loft two more apartments for railway officers. The building had all the necessary supporting facilities. There were three input signals for three entrances to the station, which was smaller hub and shunting yard till the abolition of railway Zelenička on 1 July, 1968. From Hum one railway line was entering, and from Uskoplje two lines that went to the east and south went out. On the exit turn railway Zelenička curved to the left below the village Uskoplje and flexed along the hill with a rise of 17.5 per thousand towards Glavska and further to Zelenika in the Bay of Kotor. Other railway went out in the direction towards Ivanica and through the tunnel entered the Republic of Croatia, and down the slope of 27.8 per mille down the serpentine to Dubrovnik. Because of the large railway slope, freight compositions were here divided, and with two steam locomotives of series 83 descended to Dubrovnik. Station had 7 railway tracks (third was the transit to Dubrovnik) with 14 switches. After the abolition of railway Zelenička three tracks remained and rotator for turning locomotives (11,90) of which only “pivot” and the signal box remained. Several movies were recorded here, and on Ivanica there was a “cowboy town” where five Winnetou films were made from 1962 to 1966. The city was attractive to passengers who rode the train to Dubrovnik and Zelenika and vice versa.
STATION TREBINJE is located at 275.6 meters above sea level, and it was a major railway hub. Station building along the river Trebišnjica with typical construction is like the one in Hum, but shorter for one block. It had six tracks and dead end 7 and 8 for commodities and a military warehouse. It was a head station for traffic officers of railway stations and supporting staff from Hum to Bileća. Formerly, through railway station Trebinje daily would pass: 4 passengers, fast and 2 motorized trains, 4 pairs of local and about 22 freight train. It had up to 25 steam engine locomotives and from 1970 diesel-hydraulic locomotives of series 740 as well. One steam locomotive of series 83 has remained as a museum piece. The station has supporting facilities as well: the battery station, a workshop for repairing locomotives and railway inspectorate, warehouse, rotator (turntable) for turning locomotives, pit with a hand pump. Tall building of water tanks from which the locomotive received water through water tower (gran) is still standing.
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