Uskotracne (76-centimetarske) pruge bivse Jugoslavije
Photos from May 1966 by John Cosford.
Dubrovnik, part 1
JŽ class 185 0-6+4 185.033 (Krauss Linz/1901) pauses between shunting duties at Dubrovnik station. The Klose mechanism has been removed and replaced by conventional coupling rods.
JŽ class 185 0-6+4 185.007 (Arad/1900) apparently out of use next to Dubrovnik engine shed. The Klose mechanism is still in place although the coupling rods have been removed so possibly it was being used as a source of spare parts. 45 of these were delivered to the BHLB in 1900-01 and were built by Kraus at Linz and Weitzer at Arad. They had compound inside cylinders and outside frames.
JŽ class 83 compound 0-8-2 83.136 (Krauss Linz/1906) in the freight yard at Dubrovnik station.
High in the mountains, JŽ class 83 compound 0-8-2 83.136 (Krauss Linz/1906) continues the climb towards Hum with the 14:18 Dubrovnik to Mostar passenger train. I think that this location is just above the station at Brgat but, as we didn't have a decent map, I can't be sure.
JŽ class 83 compound 0-8-2 83.136 (Krauss Linz/1906) climbing high above Sumet with the 14:18 Dubrovnik to Mostar passenger train.
JŽ class 83 0-8-2 leaving Sumet. JŽ class 83 compound 0-8-2 83.135 (Krauss Linz/1906) leaving Sumet with a freight train to Dubrovnik.
JŽ class 83 compound 0-8-2 83.136 (Krauss Linz/1906) approaching Sumet, 8km from Dubrovnik and 100 metres higher, with the 14:18 Dubrovnik to Mostar passenger train. Three of us had hired a car (apparently the only hire car available) for the afternoon and put it to good use chasing trains in the rugged karst mountains above Dubrovnik.
JŽ class 83 0-8-2 83.055 (Jung/1923) leaving Duži, 7km from Hum, with the 15:50 Hum to Trebinje mixed train.
Our hired VW Beetle has been carefully posed at the level crossing……..and the sign in Serbo-Croat roughly translates as "Beware of the Train".
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