The Railways of Montenegro. The Quest for a Trans-Balkan Railway
Malmö : Frank Stenvalls Förlag, 2016.Pagine 232. Cm. 31x22.
ISBN 978-91-7266-194-3
Testo in inglese
Dalla quarta pagina di copertina: "Few railways were more anachronistic than the legendary Antivari Railway. For fifty years it served little apparent purpose and was always heavily subsidised. Yet this steeply graded and sharply curved mountain railway in Montenegro with its unusual gauge of 750mm lay at the heart of the bitter international rivalries in the Balkans which paved the way to the outbreak of the First World War as the Great Powers struggled with the question of a Danube–Adriatic railway. Only with the opening of the Belgrade–Bar railway in 1976, one of the great train journeys in Europe today, was the ambition of a trans-Balkan railway finally realised. But was it a railway too late?
With more than 310 illustrations and specially prepared maps, this book provides full details on the 600mm, 750mm, 760mm and 1435mm gauge state and industrial railways in Montenegro and their locomotives, past and present. Based largely on original documentary sources and contemporary accounts, it is the most comprehensive account yet published of the struggle to build railways in this small but spectacularly beautiful country."
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Indice del libro | |
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Foreword | 6 |
Chapter 1 "Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!" | 8 |
The land of the Black Mountain | 8 |
"The Slav want an east-and-west line to connect with the Adriatic. The Teuton a north-south one to reach the Æegean" | 11 |
Chapter 2 The Compagnia di Antivari | 19 |
The Italian connection | 19 |
The Empire strikes back | 27 |
Chapter 3 The Danube-Adriatic railway | 36 |
A Montenegrin trans-Balkan railway | 36 |
"La bombe... lancée entre les jambes" | 42 |
Chapter 4 The Antivari Railway | 51 |
Bar harbour and the lake Skadar steamship services | 51 |
The Antivari Railway | 53 |
The locomotives and rolling stock of the Antivari Railway | 60 |
Chapter 5 An "unpractical mountain railway"? | 72 |
"A most lamentable southern Italian provincial railway" | 73 |
"An enterprise so little likely to be remunerative" | 79 |
Chapter 6 Troubled times: 1909 to 1914 | 84 |
A love grown old | 86 |
The Plavnica-Podgorica railway | 90 |
The Balkan Wars | 96 |
The Compagnia di Antivari redux | 100 |
Chapter 7 The Great War | 109 |
Phoney war | 109 |
The Betriebsdetachement Virpazar-Bar | 113 |
Railway projects in wartime Montenegro | 119 |
Raising the capacity of the Bar to Virpazar line | 121 |
The k.u.k. Lokomotiv-Rollbahn Plavnica-Podgorica | 130 |
Chapter 8 "Peculiars conditions": the interwar years | 136 |
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes | 136 |
The renaissance of the Plavnica-Podgorica railway | 143 |
"The blonde or the brunette?" | 147 |
The Bar-Virpazar railway between the wars | 152 |
Chapter 9 War and peace | 164 |
The Second World War | 164 |
The postwar era | 168 |
The Nikšic-Titograd Youth Railway | 171 |
The Titograd-Bar railway | 178 |
Chapter 10 The Titoist trans-Balkan railway | 186 |
The Belgrade-Bar Railway | 186 |
A white elephant? | 197 |
The Titograd-Shkodër railway | 202 |
The Nikšic-Titograd Railway | 203 |
Après le déluge | 205 |
Chapter 11 Industrial railways in Montenegro | 218 |
Forestry Railways | 218 |
Bijela Gora, Risan (760 mm) 1923-35 | 218 |
SIP Gorni Ibar, Rozaje (760 mm) 1924-71 | 218 |
Mojkovac (760 mm) 193?-54 | 218 |
Industrial Railways | 218 |
Ulcinj salt pans (600 mm) | 218 |
Berane brickworks (600 mm) | 219 |
Berane cellulose factory (600 mm) | 219 |
Rudnik Uglja Pljevlja (900 mm) | 220 |
Željezara Boris Kidric, Nikšic (760 mm and 1435 mm) | 221 |
Rudnici Boksita Nikšic (750 mm) | 222 |
Kombinat Aluminijuma Titograd/Podgorica, Podgorica (1435 mm) | 222 |
Civil engineering contractors | 222 |
GP Pomorsko, Bar | 222 |
GP Planum, Titograd (600 mm) | 222 |
Opste gradevinsko preduzece Titograd (600 mm) | 222 |
Location unknown | 222 |
Abbreviations | 224 |
Bibliography | 226 |
Index | 230 |
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