We are publishing a very rare document dating back to 1930. It is a technical document of the longitudinal profile of the Podgorica – Plavnica railway, prepared by the Construction Department of the Sarajevo Directorate of the Yugoslav Railways (JDŽ), dated November 12, 1930.
According to some sources, the 600 mm gauge railway line on the Podgorica – Plavnica route was built during World War I by the Austro-Hungarian Military Railways. After the war, it was not used due to deterioration and the expensive restoration. The Yugoslav Royal Army, using the existing rolling stock, began construction of this approximately 20 km line in early 1927, and it was put into regular service on July 20, 1927.
The basis for revitalizing the project was to enable the residents of Podgorica to reach Lake Skadar more quickly and easily, from where they would travel by boat to Virpazar and then continue by train to Bar (Virpazar – Bar, 1908) and vice versa. In a broader sense, the justification for this project is a future transverzal that would connect Bar – Podgorica – Nikšić – Bileća – Hum and Gabela towards Sarajevo.
With the opening of the standard gauge railway line for traffic between Bar and Titograd (Podgorica) on November 29, 1959, four months later, the lines Bar – Virpazar and Titograd (Pogorica) – Donja Plavnica are definitively abolished.
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