From the collected data so far, the available station diagrams for the narrow gauge line 0.76 m Zavidovići – Kusače are: Zavidovići, Kovači, Krivaja, Stog, (Stošnica – no diagram), Vozuće, Ribnica near Kr., (Stupin Han – no diagram), Maoča, Careva Čuprija, Kamensko, Čunište, (Crni Potok – no diagram), Solun near Kr., (Križevići – no diagram), Olovo, Čude, Petrovići near Kr., Žeravica, Nevačka, Pjenovac, Berkovina, Han Pijesak, and Kusače.
History:
The narrow-gauge route Zavidovići – Olovo – Kusače is 118 km + 300 long and was put into operation on June 10, 1902, for freight traffic, and for passenger traffic in 1919. The dismantling of the railway began gradually: Kusače – Han Pijesak on October 1, 1967; Han Pijesak – Olovo on April 1, 1968; Olovo – Careva Ćuprija on June 1, 1970; and Careva Čuprija – Zavidovići during 1973, with passenger trains running to Ribnica.
The built railway line belonged to the Directorate of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian State Railways and was granted a concession for exploitation (forest areas between the valley of the Bosna River, Krivaja, and Drina – contract signed in 1899) to the company Eisler & Ortlieb (an Austrian firm J. Eisler & Brüder from Vienna and a German firm Louis Ortlieb from Munich) for 30 years. In 1900, a new contract was signed for a twenty-year exploitation of the Trstionica, Zvijezda, and Duboštica forest areas. Through these contracts, the company exploited a total of 32,300 hectares of forest. Eisler & Ortlieb built a modern sawmill in Zavidovići with a total of 26 sawlines with an operational power of 2,400 horsepower, and it was one of the largest and most modern installed facilities in Europe at that time.
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