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Sheme of the Podlugovi – Vareš – Droškovac standard gauge station, 1955.

From the collected materials so far, the available schematic of the standard gauge stations 1,435 m Podlugovi – Vareš – Droškovac are: Podlugovi, Potkraj, Breza, Dabravina, Stavnja, Vareš, and Droškovac.

From history:

The Podlugovi – Vareš railway was built with a narrow gauge of 0.76 meters and was put into operation on November 7, 1895, with a length of 24.388 km, and remained in service until 1953. In 1951, construction (reconstruction) began on a standard gauge railway of 1.435 meters with minor modifications from Podlugovi station to Vareš and further towards Droškovac. The length of the newly constructed track, measured from Podlugovi station to the last switch in Droškovac, is 23.885 km. The date of final discontinuation of the narrow gauge railway coincides with the opening of the standard gauge railway for regular traffic on March 28, 1953.

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