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The Belgrade–Bar railway is 476 kilometres (296mi) long, of which 301km (187mi) is in Serbia and 175km (109mi) is in Montenegro. It is standard gauge and electrified with 25 kV, 50 Hz AC for its entire length. It passes through 254 tunnels of total length of 114,435m (375,443ft) and over 435 bridges (total length 14,593m (47,877ft)). The longest tunnels are "Sozina" (6.17km or 3.83mi), and "Zlatibor" (6.169km or 3.833mi). The biggest and the best-known bridge is Mala Rijeka Viaduct, 498 metres (1,634ft) long and 198m (650ft) above ground level.
The highest point of the railway is 1,032m (3,386ft) above mean sea level, at the town of Kolašin. The railway descends to 40m (130ft) above mean sea level at Podgorica in a relatively short distance, resulting in a gradient of 25‰ on this section.
A short 9km (6mi) section of the railway passes through Bosnia and Herzegovina, where there is a station at Štrpci.
When the line was completed in the late 1970s, the trip between Belgrade and Bar took approximately 7 hours. Today, the same trip takes around 11 hours due to speed restrictions necessitated by poor track conditions and border controls at Bijelo Polje.[1]
The construction works were concluded on 27 November 1975, by joining the railway tracks south of Kolašin. The railway was opened on 28 May 1976. Electrification was completed at the end of 1977.
Maintenance of the Belgrade–Bar railway suffered from chronic underfunding during the 1990s, which has resulted in the railway deteriorating and becoming unsafe. This culminated in the Bioče derailment, when a passenger train derailed, causing the deaths of 47 passengers. As a result, efforts are being made to thoroughly reconstruct the railway.
The Serbian part of the railway was targeted several times by NATO during its bombing campaign in 1999, seriously damaging portions of the railway.[2] Also, the small section that passes through Bosnia and Herzegovina was blown up by SFOR ground forces.[3] All of this damage was later repaired.[citation needed]
In 2016, Serbia started a thorough reconstruction of its portion of the line in order to restore its original maximum speed of 120 kilometres per hour (75mph). The first section, between Belgrade and Valjevo (27% of the Serbian part of the line) was completed in 2017, with speeds of up to 120km/h, however Serbian Railways Infrastructure later stated trains reached speeds of 100km/h, causing some confusion as to what the maximum speed actually is.
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