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...A lot of years will pass
and people will remember the iron road again and they will rebuild it once more.
But this time passengers won't travel by it to Visegrad for their needs and
their busines, but fun-seeking people for their vacation and for enjoyment...
a prophecy of Mitar Tarabic
...Wherever the human foot stepped
you can't find it in Europe, non in the world, it is admired by man and by bird,
This wonderful Sargan eight.
It is said, Mokra Gora
must be remembered by it...
by Mihailo Cupovic
...One of the world's most beautiful railway routes had been passing throught
Mokra Gora till 1974. The narow-gaged railway was connecting Belgrade and Sarajevo. It was opening Mokra Gora to the world. The steam engine was cutting
its way through rocky gorges and high passages between Sargan and Mokra Gora,
on the route where the railway is making an usual parth in the shape of number 8.
By this unique eight in the world, with the mixture of tunnels and bridges, the
300 metres hight difference from Mokra Gora to Sargan had been surmounted
skillfully. Travelling on the route of the famous 13,5 km long Sargan eight it was almost
imposible for apassanger to understand which direction had the train passed and
which it would pass next. In the prophecy of the famous Kremna prophet
Tarabic there was the construction and the end of the use of this railway. The iron
cart and the iron road, as Tarabic had told, dissapeared, but time will come
when this iron road will be rebuilt for people who will travel for rest, amusement and enjoying.
This time did come, the words of the prophet Tarabic come true.
The famous Sargan eight is coming to life again as a turist attraction. The
engines have arived already, the compartmens as well.
The first turists from our country and from abroad are already enjoying in an
ideal union of untoched nature and the breath of ancient times...
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-- SARGAN EIGHT --
-- railroad gage 0,76 m
-- between the station Sargan - Vitasi - Mokra Gora there are station Jatare on 262 km plus 250,36 (from Stalac)
-- 20 tunnels in total
-- the longest tunnel is Sargan with 1666,86 m
-- total length of tunnels is 5445,22 m
-- 5 bridges
-- the longest bridge is 44,3 m on the river Kamesina
-- maximum fall 18 promiles
-- the curves radius 120 degreas
-- total length of the railway with the station tracks between Sargan - Vitas and
Mokra Gora 15440 m
-- by Sargan eight hight difference of 300 m on the distance of 3,5 km is
surmounted
-- construction works on Sargan eight started in October 1921
-- open for the traffic in February 2 nd 1925.
-- the traffic suspended in February 28 th 1974.
-- the begining of reconstruction and revitalisation of Sargan eight on November
11 th 1999.
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