| 1. | PROLOGUE |
| 2. | BACKGROUND |
| 3. | SURVIVAL MAP |
| 4. | MAPPED SITES |
| 4.1. | Airport |
| 4.2. | Brewery |
| 4.3. | Bridges |
| 4.4. | Cemeteries |
| 4.5. | City Bakery |
| 4.6. | City Hall (National Library) |
| 4.7. | Dangerous Zones |
| 4.8. | Elektroprivreda Building |
| 4.9. | Gardens |
| 4.10. | Holiday Inn Hotel |
| 4.11. | Hospitals |
| 4.12. | Markale Market |
| 4.13. | Markets |
| 4.14. | Maternity Hospital |
| 4.15. | National Museum |
| 4.16. | National Theater |
| 4.17. | Olympic Museum |
| 4.18. | Oslobođenje Building |
| 4.19. | Parks |
| 4.20. | Post Office |
| 4.21. | Presidency Building |
| 4.22. | Protection |
| 4.23. | Radio-Television Building |
| 4.24. | Railway Station |
| 4.25. | Snipers |
| 4.26. | Tobacco Factory |
| 4.27. | Transportation |
| 4.28. | Tunnel |
| 4.29. | UNPROFOR (the United Nations Protection Forces) |
| 4.30. | Zetra Olympic Hall |
| 5. | PERCEPTIONS |
| 6. | MACRO STORIES |
| 7. | REFERENCES |
The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-96 AHEAD OF FEAR The Art of Survival #2 |
| 1. | PROLOGUE |
| 2. | BACKGROUND |
| 3. | SURVIVAL MAP |
| 4. | MAPPED SITES |
| 4.1. | Airport |
| 4.2. | Brewery |
| 4.3. | Bridges |
| 4.4. | Cemeteries |
| 4.5. | City Bakery |
| 4.6. | City Hall (National Library) |
| 4.7. | Dangerous Zones |
| 4.8. | Elektroprivreda Building |
| 4.9. | Gardens |
| 4.10. | Holiday Inn Hotel |
| 4.11. | Hospitals |
| 4.12. | Markale Market |
| 4.13. | Markets |
| 4.14. | Maternity Hospital |
| 4.15. | National Museum |
| 4.16. | National Theater |
| 4.17. | Olympic Museum |
| 4.18. | Oslobođenje Building |
| 4.19. | Parks |
| 4.20. | Post Office |
| 4.21. | Presidency Building |
| 4.22. | Protection |
| 4.23. | Radio-Television Building |
| 4.24. | Railway Station |
| 4.25. | Snipers |
| 4.26. | Tobacco Factory |
| 4.27. | Transportation |
| 4.28. | Tunnel |
| 4.29. | UNPROFOR (the United Nations Protection Forces) |
| 4.30. | Zetra Olympic Hall |
| 5. | PERCEPTIONS |
| 6. | MACRO STORIES |
| 7. | REFERENCES |
The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-96 AHEAD OF FEAR The Art of Survival #2 |
4.24.
Railway Station
"For a long time it had been regarded as one of the most beautiful stations in the Balkans, but suddenly it all changed."
For a long time it had been regarded as one of the most beautiful stations in the Balkans, but suddenly it all changed. The Sarajevans remember it as the place from which convoys with women and children left the city. In one direction only. The trains were destroyed, the carriages burnt out. In 1995, lacking other means of public transportation, the railway transportation was re-established. The train operated between two city districts and the carriages were pulled by trucks. The length of the line was 5 kilometres and the ride lasted 30 minutes.
© FAMA Collection Visual Archives, Drago Resner
Sarajevo citizens: In their own words
“We used to get information about the whole railway network, which was doubly under threat. One threat was the one we could see from Sarajevo: shelling and stoppage of services in Sarajevo itself, but we also had information about destruction.”
- Sadik Beširević, Employee at the Railway Company
“Here the problem was of a technical nature: how to brake that small-improvised train when it reaches the station. The truck does not have an appropriate braking device for a train, but a train has manual brakes on each of its cars.”
- Narcis Džumhur, BH Railways
“The train could not use electrical power, however the German Red Cross suggested a solution, if I remember correctly. They gave us some sort of a truck, which could be adjusted to be able to drive on rails, and it used gas to pull two or three wagons.”
- Mirjana Stanić, City Minister of Communications
Video Oral History: The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-96 (© FAMA Collection, 1997-99.)