Narrow-gauge railways in Serbia
Most Serbian railway lines were built as a result of an expansion of railway networks by Austro-Hungarians. Several gauge railways were planned to link the extensive narrow-gauge railways in the Austro-Hungarian Empire with those in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Until the outbreak of the Balkan Wars in 1912 several of these were constructed, the first ones in Eastern Serbia: Closed lines Serbian railway (narrow-gauge) network began to develop in the 1880s. in 1882, a primarily industrial, though occasionally used for passenger transport, 12 km long 600 mm wide gauge track from Majdanpek copper processing plant to Velike Livade built by the "Serbian Copper & Iron Co" (official name in English, most stock holders were British). First run on the track was in June 1882. in 1888, the 82 km long dual purpose (industrial and passenger transport) 760 mm gauge track from Vrška Čuka mine to the port of Radujevac on the Danube, built by the Societé Anonyme "L'Industrielle Serbe" registered at Brussels in Belgian, French, (Austro-)Hungarian, and Serbian ownership (in order of the percentage of stock owned)., in 1892, primarily for coal transport, but also for passenger service, 31.2 km long 750 mm wide line from Ćuprija to Senjski Rudnik was