Subject: Vennbahn in Yugoslavia<br/>
Date: Oct 28, 2003 @ 17:44<br/>
Author: L. A. Nadybal (&quot;L. A. Nadybal&quot; &lt;lnadybal@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1037264359">When the US Forces drew maps on computers a few years ago to outline<br/>
the borders between Croatia and divided Bosnia into it&#39;s two ethnic<br/>
parts, details of what it did to a rail line between Croatia and<br/>
Bosnia has left what may be similar to the Vennbahn or a combination<br/>
of the situations in Kleinwalsertal & at the Vennbahn.<br/>
<br/>
I posted a map in the photos section, and an enlargened version at<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://exclave.info/anomalies/yugo-vennbahn.jpg">http://exclave.info/anomalies/yugo-vennbahn.jpg</a><br/>
<br/>
The route takes the train as follows:<br/>
<br/>
Strmica (Croatia) (customs)<br/>
Drenovac (Bosnia)<br/>
Tiskorac, Kaldrma & Dugopolje (Croatia) (customs)<br/>
Radenovici (Bosnia) (cut off except by road from Croatia)<br/>
Beghiji (Croatia) locale w/o train station<br/>
Veliki & Martin-Brod (Bosnia)<br/>
<br/>
NW of Veliki, the rails stay in Bosnian side for a few kilometers,<br/>
passes into Croatia NW of Klisa (another Bosnian place accessible by<br/>
road only from Croatia) and runs on the Croatian side of the Una river<br/>
for another few km, returning for good to Bosnia just north of<br/>
Zeljezno-Polje.<br/>
<br/>
Curious is that between Strmica and Kaldrma customs points, there are<br/>
is a Bosnian and Croat stations, and after the northern customs point<br/>
at Kaldrma, when one rides back into Croatia, there are still a couple<br/>
of Bosnian stations, Radenovici & Nr Veliki, that have a Croatian<br/>
station between them).  After Bosnian-Veliki, the train returns to<br/>
Croatia.<br/>
<br/>
Such a situation leaves at least two customs free zones or some other<br/>
weird sovereignty-compromising arrangements in this area as<br/>
unavoidable.   <br/>
<br/>
Note also the very odd bird&#39;s beak border routing at Donji-Tiskovac -<br/>
the &quot;corridor&quot; looks like it&#39;s a coupel of kilometers long and perhaps<br/>
no more than 50 meters wide, perhaps encompasesing nothing more than a<br/>
stream from Croatia that supplied water to the Bosnian village below.<br/>
<br/>
Enjoy!  <br/>
<br/>
Len Nadybal</div>