Jesenice railway station

Jesenice
Trains at the Jesenice railway station
Location	19 Marshal Tito Street (Cesta Maršala Tita 19) 4270 Jesenice, Upper Carniola Slovenia
Coordinates
Owned by	Slovenske železnice
Operated by	Slovenske železnice
History
Rebuilt	1953-1955
Location
Jesenice Location within Slovenia

The Jesenice railway station (Slovene: Železniška postaja Jesenice) is a railway station in the town of Jesenice, northwestern Slovenia. It is the last station before the Austrian border. In addition to the station facilities, the building contains a bar, shops, and a restaurant. The two boarding platforms are connected by an underground pedestrian tunnel.

Destinations

Destinations served from the station are:

• Rosenbach (Slovene: Podrožca) and Villach (Slovene: Beljak) on the mainline to the north (both in Austria, via Karavanke tunnel)
• Kranj and Ljubljana on the mainline to the south-east
• Bohinj and Nova Gorica on the Bohinj line to the south-west

History

The station opened in 1870 as a stop on the Tarvisio-Ljubljana Railway. In 1906, it became a junction when two main lines of the New Alpine Railways were completed: the Bohinj Railway to Trieste and the Karawanks tunnel and line to Villach.

The station building was built between 1953 and 1955 upon the plans by sl to replace a prewar structure destroyed by Allied air raids in early 1945. Architecturally, the new building is unusually distinctive for a train station in the area, being a stark modernist box faced in white marble and featuring hexagonal windows.

Sources

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons