Sežana railway station (; ; ) serves the town and

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Sežana Sežana (; ) is a town in the Slovenian Littoral region of Slovenia, near the border with Italy. It is the seat of the Municipality of Sežana. Sežana is located on the Karst Plateau, from Trieste, Italy, and from Ljubljana, the capital city ...

, in the Littoral region of Slovenia.

Location

The station forms part of the important rail link originally built as the South railway, between

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, and

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. It is situated very close to the border between Slovenia and Italy.

History

The station was opened on , as ''Bahnhof Sežana'' (its German language name). At that time, it was located within the

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, and its original operator was the

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, a privately owned enterprise. After

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, and the annexation of Sežana to the

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, the station was renamed ''Stazione di Sesana'' (its Italian language name). Responsibility for operating the station passed to the

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(State Railways of the Kingdom of Italy). In 1947, following the end of

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, the

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took control of Sežana. The station, renamed ''Železniška postaja Sežana'' (its Slovenian language name), became the Vienna–Trieste railway's border crossing point between Italy and Yugoslavia, and its operations were reassigned to

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(). In 1948, the station became a

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for a branch line to Kreplje, where the branch linked up with the

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and the rest of the Yugoslavian rail network. Upon the commencement of Slovenian independence in 1991, the

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took over as operator.

External links

Official site of the Slovenian railways
''This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at November 2010.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Sezana Railway Station Railway stations in Slovenia Railway stations in Slovenia opened in 1857 Sežana 1857 establishments in the Austrian Empire