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	46°26′11″N 14°03′17″E / 46.43639°N 14.05472°E / 46.43639; 14.05472Coordinates: 46°26′11″N 14°03′17″E / 46.43639°N 14.05472°E / 46.43639; 14.05472
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 Stanislav Rohrman 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 Jesenice railway station at Wikimedia Commons