Now known as the Bohinj Railway (Slovene: Bohinjska proga), the 129 km line, mostly in Slovenia with a small section in Italy, connects Jesenice in Slovenia with Trieste in Italy and was built by Austria-Hungary from 1900 to 1906 as a part of a new strategic railway, the Neue Alpenbahnen, that would connect Western Austria and Southern Germany with the then Austro-Hungarian port of Trieste. The line starts in Jesenice, at the southern end of the Karawanks Tunnel; it then crosses the Julian Alps through the BohinjTunnel, and passes the border town of Nova Gorica before crossing the Italian border and reaching Trieste.
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