Slovenian Railways

Slovenske železnice ( SŪ ) [ slo'venske ʒe'leznitse ] ( sln. Slovenian Railways ) is the Slovenian national railway company. This was in 1991, after Slovenia had separated from Yugoslavia, was founded. Since 10 June 1992, the SŪ member of the International Union of Railways are ( UIC).

Infrastructure and route network

The length of the Slovenian road network of 1229 km with 128 stations, of which eleven are only for freight. The leg Šentilj - Celje was opened in 1846 and is one of the oldest railway lines in Europe.

Traction power

The Slovenian railway power system uses 3 kV DC. This arises from the partial Italian occupation during World War 2 ago, the Italian occupation force in 1942 was the first parts of the Slovene rail network electrification and relied on the same system as in Italy. 504 km of the network are electrified (2004 ).

Passenger

Since 2000, an intercity traffic is operated, which was first recorded between Ljubljana and Maribor (part of the railway line pitch - Strasbourg -Trieste ). Between Maribor and Ljubljana also operate Pendolino trains on the S ® series 310, called InterCity Slovenija (ICS ). Individual compounds are also to Koper.

Fleet

The fleet of SŪ is very diverse and is composed mainly of locomotives of Italian type, such as the electric locomotives of the series 342 and 362, and the French Alstom locomotives. The French type is similar to the SNCF CC 6500; in SŪ she is in one of 3 kV equipped for a driving voltage version (CC 6500: 1,5 kV ) under the number 363 in use. However, there are also 32 locomotives of the type Taurus III 's fleet SŪ, and three Pendolino for the IC communication with the designation SŪ 310 Further the SŪ over 30 electric railcars of the type Siemens Desiro, which were acquired from 2000 to 2002 and the term S ® series 312 have.