You can find on this page the Slovenia trains map to print and to download in PDF. The Slovenia railways map presents the rail network and shows high speed rails routes of Slovenia in Southern Europe.
The Slovenia rail map shows all the railway stations and lines of Slovenia trains. This train map of Slovenia will allow you to easily travel by train in showing the major rail routes and high speed rail routes of Slovenia in Southern Europe. The Slovenia rail map is downloadable in PDF, printable and free.
Slovenian Railways (Slovene: Slovenske železnice, SŽ) is the state railway company of Slovenia, created in 1991 from the Ljubljana division of the former Yugoslav Railways after the breakup of Yugoslavia as its mentioned in Slovenia rail map. Slovenia is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Slovenia is 79. Slovenia received its first railway connection in the 1840s, when the Austrian Empire built a railway connection - Südliche Staatsbahn or Austrian Southern Railway - between its capital, Vienna, and its major commercial port, Trieste. Thus, Maribor was connected by railway to Graz in 1844. The stretch was extended via Pragersko to Celje in 1846, and further via Zidani Most to Ljubljana in 1849. A double-track line was continued via Postojna, Pivka, and Divača, finally reaching Trieste in 1857.
Slovenian Railways operates 1,229 km of standard gauge tracks, 331 km as double track, and reaches all regions of the country as you can see in Slovenia rail map. It is remarkably well connected to all surrounding countries reflecting the fact that Slovenia used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later of Yugoslavia. Electrification is provided by a 3 kV DC system and covers about 503 km. The remainder of the former Yugoslavian railroads that have been electrified operate with 25 kV AC system, thus trains to Zagreb switch engines at Dobova until dual system engines will be available. Ljubljana is at the heart of the SŽ system. Here, the Pan-European corridors V and X intersect. These transportation corridors are being established to tie larger segments of Europe economically together: Corridor V links Venice - Trieste/Koper - Ljubljana - Maribor - Budapest - Kiev, while Corridor X connects Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Belgrade - Thessalonica. The freight system to Koper, a modern and growing port east of Trieste, represents the shortest connection to the Mediterranean for a large portion of the hinterland of Central and Eastern Europe.
The railway passenger transport has been recovering after a large drop in the 1990s. The Pan-European railway corridors V and X, and several E-railways (E65, E67, E69, and E70) intersect in Slovenia. All international transit trains in Slovenia drive through the Ljubljana Railway Hub, and all international passenger trains stop there. Passenger trains of the SŽ use InterCity and EuroCity as well as regional and local trains. The InterCity Slovenia (ICS) connects Koper, Ljubljana and Maribor. A noted train of the SŽ was the Casanova linking Ljubljana to Venice in a 4-hour ride, eliminated in April 2007. Rail links to adjacent countries, same gauge as its shown in Slovenia rail map: Austria — voltage change to 15 kV AC, Croatia — voltage change to 25 kV 50 Hz AC, Hungary — voltage change to 25 kV 50 Hz AC, Italy — same voltage 3 kV DC.