Railways in

Bosnia and Hercegovina

Sarajevo tram no.912, one of several received from the Turkish city of Konya, and still bearing the Konya livery,
seen at Skenderija tram stop on Sarajevo line 3 in 2017

The first railway in Bosnia opened in 1878, a standard (1435mm) gauge line between Banja Luka and Prijedor constructed by the Ottoman Empire. However, railway development started in earnest in the following year with the opening of the 96km line from Srpski Brod to Doboj, the first section of a line to Sarajevo. It was built to 760mm gauge, and as such was the first narrow gauge line constructed in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Subsequent construction was mostly to this gauge, the network reaching its peak by the end of the First World War. Many of the lines were converted to standard (1435mm) gauge during the reconstruction of the then Yugoslavia following the Second World War, and most of the remaining narrow gauge lines were closed.

The present day network has international connections with Croatia and Serbia. A short section of a line of Serbian Railways passes through Bosnia with a station at Štrpci, but has no connection with other railways in Bosnia.

Bosnia and Hercegovina is a federation of two main territories, each with own railway administration.

• ŽFBH Railways of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• ŽRS Railways of Republika Srpska (Site in Serbian: Latin alphabet)
• Srbija Voz operator of the line through Štrpci (Site in Serbian, link for English section not functional when last checked)
• RMU Banovići lignite mines in the Banovići area with a network of 760mm gauge lines connecting to power generation plants. Steam traction was routinely used until the early part of the 21st century, and a number of steam locomotives are retained for hauling private passenger charters
• Gras Sarajevo trams (Site in Bosnian: Latin alphabet)