Sarajevo main railway station (Bosnian: Glavna željeznička stanica u Sarajevu) is a railway station in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the northwest part of the city, approximately 3 kilometers from the downtown area near Marijin Dvor.
The square in front of the station is named after the victims of the Srebrenica massacre (Bosnian: Trg žrtava genocida u Srebrenici).
[1] Near it, further west of the city were the main railway depot for the whole of Bosnia, where a thousand people were employed at the peak.
The reasons for the construction of the new railway station were several; the track to Sarajevo was rebuilt to a standard gauge of 1435 mm, longer trains were expected and would be not possible to service them.
The Sarajevo–Ploče railway line via Konjic, Mostar and Čapljina is an electrified, single-track main national long-distance transport route, which is developed for 70 km/h (ŽFBH) or 100 km/h (HŽ) and is part of the Pan-European Corridor Vc.
In Sarajevo, long-distance passenger transport is transferred to the also electrified and partly double-track railway line via Zenica to Doboj, which can be traveled at speeds of up to 70 km/h.
[8][9] The ticket price of €31 for the approximately 500 km (310 mile) journey to Bosnia and Herzegovina was less than the cost of driving in December 2009.