April 27, 1846 – The first train arrived in Celje
"Where a year ago there were green meadows and flowering spires, now the railway station stands, a majestic building like that of a prince, a railway, and iron elephants, called locomotives, rumble. For several days now they have been trying out these iron horses, as the farmers around Celje call them. Three locomotives have already been prepared, which have the names: Ocean, Grossglockner and Idria. On the 27th of last month, the chief inspector of the CK railway D. Ghega made his first attempt with the locomotive and traveled from Marburg to Celje back in two hours and 45 minutes. When the storm is raging, the locomotives are rushing to Marburg and back; they will take us to Graz next month. - What else; we already have a beautiful spring, or rather, a hot summer. "The wheat is tall, the hosts are green, the fruit trees and the vineyards in bloom promise us a fruitful harvest." This is how Celje's doctor and correspondent for Novice, Dr. Jožef Šubic, described the arrival of the first train in Celje.
The construction of the railway in Celje had already begun a year earlier, when Friulians, Primorski and Czechs flocked to the Celje area. They participated in the construction of the so-called southern railway, which connected Imperial Vienna with the port of Trieste, thus opening a window to the world across the Adriatic. The construction, which required solid bridges, tunnels, cuts, embankments and retaining walls, which still arouse our admiration today, brought Celje new opportunities for economic prosperity, as fresh capital was flowing into the city. The construction of the railway line and the station building also greatly changed the view of the eastern edge of the city of Celje, as the space for the station was obtained by filling in the floodplain of the Voglajna River, which had previously had to be diverted into a new riverbed.
The railway line from Graz to Celje was ceremonially opened on Pentecost Sunday, June 2, 1946, when "at noon, a train decorated with flags and wreaths arrived, from which the Turkish music of the Styrian regiment "Piret" sounded cheerfully, and in which many gentlemen from Vienna, Graz and Maribor arrived."
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