Bosnian-gauge railways

After a British proposal the 1878 Berlin Congress permitted Austria-Hungary to occupy and govern Bosnia-Herzegovina instead of Turkey, the 190 km (120 mi) long Brod–Zenica military railway was built to support manoeuvres and supply troops.

[4] It was completed in 1879, using the 760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) temporary tracks and rolling stock used during the construction of the recently finished Timisoara–Oršava line.

[5] The Brod–Zenica–Sarajevo Bosna Bahn provided the basis for the narrow-gauge railway network which was later established in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

By the 1890s this stretched through Mostar to the Dalmatian border at Metkovic, and to Gruž, a suburb of Dubrovnik, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.

[5] The establishment of the fast-growing network, whose length by the start of the 20th centuries exceeded 1,000 km (620 mi) making it the once largest interconnected narrow gauge network[5] in Europe, secured a high reputation for the Monarchy's engineering corps amongst international professional circles.