page_title: Narrow-gauge railways in Bosnia and Herzegovina
section_title: East Bosnian railway
hierarchical_section_title: Narrow-gauge railways in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Central 760 mm (2 ft 5 15⁄16 in) gauge network / East Bosnian railway
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Šarganska osmica, Bergfahrt Güterzug mit Doppeltraktion BR83 und BR85
context_page_description: Most Bosnian-gauge railway lines were built during the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Several 760 mm gauge railways were planned in order to link the extensive narrow-gauge railways in the Austro-Hungarian Empire with those in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until the outbreak of the Balkan Wars in 1912 several were constructed.
  Between World War I and World War II the network was extended significantly, at the end connecting the Adriatic Coast with Belgrade, with the network growing to around 1500 km in length.
  Construction of a new standard-gauge line from Sarajevo to Ploče on the Adriatic in 1966 replaced the 760 mm Narentabahn from Sarajevo to the coast and had the effect of isolating the south-western narrow-gauge system from the 760 mm railways starting at Sarajevo. With the demise of a connecting network all the other remaining narrow-gauge lines were then at risk and restricted to local traffic.
  The system based on the Adriatic closed in 1975. By 1979 the rest of the Bosnian lines had closed. In Serbia the last 760 mm line closed in 1983. The most modern diesel railcars were sold to the Portuguese Railways, becoming Portuguese train type 9700.
context_section_description: Bosnische Ostbahn (Bosanska istočna pruga) 166.4 km, built 1906.
  Sarajevo–Pale–Ustiprača–Međeđa–Uvac 137,6 km (Serbian border); Uvac-Priboj, Serbia (built 1929). This line is connected to the Bosna railway and the Narenta railway at Sarajevo.
  Međeđa–Višegrad–Dobrun 21,5 km; Dobrun–Vardište 7.3 km (Serbian border); Vardište–Mokra Gora–Šargan Vitasi–Užice (built 1925); Užice–Čačak (built 1912); Čačak–Gornji Milanovac (built 1920); Gornji Milanovac-Lajkovac (built 1922); Lajkovac–Obrenovac (built 1908); Obrenovac–Belgrade (built 1928).
  Ustiprača–Foča–Miljevina 56 km (built 1939)
  In the 1960s, plans were made to regauge the lines to standard gauge. However, this was not realised. On 28 May 1978 the line was closed for commercial traffic.
  The track bed is currently quite well visible in the landscape, with several stations, tunnels still visible. A small part of the track is still in service as a heritage railway rebuilt between 1999 and 2003, Šargan Eight.
caption: A freight train in 1970.
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