Discovering the Highest Railway Station in Bulgaria: Avramovo in the Rhodope Mountains

Our country has many beauties, and the mountains are lined not only with rock formations and pine forests, but also with railway lines.

Do you know which is the highest railway station in Bulgaria?

In our country, there is a station that is located at the highest point and is at the top, as it were considered to be the highest station in the Balkans.

It is about the Rhodope village of Avramovo. It is located at the highest point, which makes it the highest station not only in our country, but also on the entire Balkan Peninsula.

This station is part of a railway line that connects cities Dobrinishte and Septemvri. It is better known as the “narrow line”.

The rail route connects not only with the station in the village of Avramovo, but with the whole history and this is not a coincidence. It is famous for extremely picturesque places, through the territories it passes through, writes poznanieto.bg.

Interesting facts about the village of Avramovo and the highest railway station in the Balkans:

Until 1983, the railway station was called Abraham’s huts. It is the highest located in our country Bulgaria and the first on the Balkan Peninsula. It is exactly 1267.4 meters above sea level.

In the period 1878 to 1912, after the Liberation, the border between the Ottoman Empire and the Principality of Bulgaria was located on the site of the railway station.

The station has existed for a long time. It was built after 1926 and is part of the Yakoruda-Chepino narrow gauge railway. The section was conceived as a temporary operation for the time of December 12, 1937, after which it was officially opened. The date was July 30, 1939.

Why is it called “narrow line”?

The narrow-gauge railway line connects Dobrinishte and Septemvri and is called “narrow-gauge” because of the distance between the rails, which is less than the generally accepted European standard.

To be precise, it reaches 76 centimeters, which is twice the standard 143.5 centimeters of track, or about three feet narrower.

The narrow gauge is also called “Bosnian type”, because the first tracks of this type were built mainly on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the past, during the occupation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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2023-12-02 12:16:00


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