Narrow-gauge railways in Serbia

Most Serbian railway lines were built as a result of an expansion of railway networks by Austro-Hungarians. Several 760 mm (2 ft 5 1516 in) gauge railways were planned to link the extensive narrow gauge railways in the Austro-Hungarian Empire with those in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until the outbreak of the Balkan Wars in 1912 several of these were constructed, the first ones in Eastern Serbia:

In the 1920s the network was extended from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Belgrade.

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