CROATIA | Railways

[Verso]

Nice contribution, oakwood....

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Originally Posted by Verso

Nice contribution, oakwood....

Thank you, I hope you find it interesting to follow the state of the railways in Croatia.

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Announcement of the Minister of Transport on the purchase of new trains for the Croatian Railways......

News from the 12th November 2012.

CROATIAN rail moving in purchasing 44 new trains, the conclusion of the Commission for the railroad. "Of these, 32 Electric Multiple Unit - 16 in the city and 16 on regional transport, and 12 trains are diesel trains that are used on regional transport on Croatian railways. Sami contest details and prices of trains will be known in the next 14 days," said Minister of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure Sinisa Hajdas Doncic who sees the chance to Gredelj and Koncar.

"Chances are great Croatian producers because the cluster forming part Gredelj Koncar and in my opinion can be competitive and can respond to the challenge of producing 44 new trains," said Hajdas Doncic adding that the restructuring plan in HZ goes well. "The restructuring plan is going well. He agreed with the unions, which is very important, in that there are stimulating severance to 200 thousand gross depending on years of service. There is social dialogue which is very important," said Hajdas Doncic. Otherwise, so far signed by 700 workers severance incentive.

The Commission adopted the conclusion of the traffic route from Rijeka to Zagreb Brajdice coast. It is also the first "Policy Paper" which originated in the ministry, and he has worked on about 40 different experts. "It started with the assumption that the current capacity of the port of Rijeka 150 000 TEU and to maximize the building Brajdice coast and Zagreb in the first and second phase, the capacity can be 1.2 million TEUs," said Hajdas Doncic.

Shares Skradnik - Zagreb projected EU funds. Design will be completed in the 2015th year. "It is a line of dvokolosječnoj Skradnik to Zagreb, the second part includes the part that goes from the Skradnik Škrljevo, where the direction of the" iron ", which means that the majority of the route will be track lines, except for the part of Delnice to Skradnik , where it will remain jednokolosječna stripes. completion of all work is scheduled 2019th, "explained the minister after a session chaired by Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic.

"I want to stress that it is the new, polished lines Rijeka traffic route that starts in Rijeka and ends in Hungary, is absolutely sufficient for future cargo traffic in the port of Rijeka," said Hajdas Doncic.


http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/h...ar/646330.aspx

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The train leaves from the Zagreb railway station

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Arrival and departure of trains at Zagreb's main railway station

Best part of the video 0:24 min.

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Koncar (Končar) low-floor electric train
Interior of the train

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Train in the Zagreb area





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Croatian Railways, low-floor train manufactured in KONČAR (Koncar)

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Train in suburban traffic in Zagreb





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[Verso]

[oakwood....]

Originally Posted by Verso

I see that you follow the state of Croatian Railways, as you know the current state, and what is your perception of the Croatian Railways?

[Baron Hirsch]

In a German rail forum, people are very angry about the new schedule as of next month. Passenger traffic to and from Serbia has been reduced to apparently just one train per day. This seems particularly irresponsible after the area around Vinkovci has seen large investments for upgrading. This also makes the prospect of such large scale investments as proposed on the previous page seem unrealistic or just to serve the aim of spending a few billion to construction firms rather than truely establishing East to West corridors through Croatia. How do you as people who know the local politics see the contradiction between potential future investments and de facto minimization of international services?

[Robi_damian]

Originally Posted by Baron Hirsch

In a German rail forum, people are very angry about the new schedule as of next month. Passenger traffic to and from Serbia has been reduced to apparently just one train per day. This seems particularly irresponsible after the area around Vinkovci has seen large investments for upgrading. This also makes the prospect of such large scale investments as proposed on the previous page seem unrealistic or just to serve the aim of spending a few billion to construction firms rather than truely establishing East to West corridors through Croatia. How do you as people who know the local politics see the contradiction between potential future investments and de facto minimization of international services?

They are joining the EU now, so thought it was time to cut cross-border services I guess.

[Crash_N]

You clearly don't know much about our dear national rail operator, HŽ ( Croatian Railways )

[phantom23]

Originally Posted by oakwood....

Koncar (Končar) low-floor electric train
Interior of the train

I'm quite disappointed - it's much louder than I thought.

[x-type]

Originally Posted by Baron Hirsch

In a German rail forum, people are very angry about the new schedule as of next month. Passenger traffic to and from Serbia has been reduced to apparently just one train per day. This seems particularly irresponsible after the area around Vinkovci has seen large investments for upgrading. This also makes the prospect of such large scale investments as proposed on the previous page seem unrealistic or just to serve the aim of spending a few billion to construction firms rather than truely establishing East to West corridors through Croatia. How do you as people who know the local politics see the contradiction between potential future investments and de facto minimization of international services?

the problem is that Croatian Railways started to demand fees for international trains operating on its railroads. for instance, Croatian Railways pay 960.000€ annualy to Deutsche Bahn for operatin train 498/499 to München. Croatian Railways demanded 700.000€ from Serbian Railways for some trains, but they have refused it.
the same thing happened between Hungarian Railways and Serbian Railways about train 342/343 Beograd - Budapest.
similar thing happened last year when Italian Railways demanded large amounts for oeprating train Budapest - Venezia.

[oakwood....]

Originally Posted by phantom23

I'm quite disappointed - it's much louder than I thought.

The train is a bit louder, but it's nothing that could not handle a few hours of driving in it.

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I think that this problem can only be solved at the table with a conversation between the leading men in the railways of countries where this problem is concerned. If no agreement is reached, it will still come up with new problems.

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Kustošija train station in Zagreb












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[Verso]

Originally Posted by oakwood....

I see that you follow the state of Croatian Railways, as you know the current state, and what is your perception of the Croatian Railways?

Same crap as our railways, but they are still interesting. I think trains could run a bit faster between Zagreb and the Slovenian border (Savski Marof), but at least it's a short distance. You have some nice trains, like ICN, but even ordinary IC Zagreb-Rijeka is great. There are too many kids between Karlovac and Metlika though.