The railway station is located right on the Italian-Slovenian border, on the western edge of Nova Gorica's town centre. The most important station complex of the Bohinj line in the territory of the present-day Republic of Slovenia, it has been registered as an immovable cultural heritage site since 1996. The broadly designed roundhouse was built to serve the needs of the Bohinj line, which was constructed between 1900 and 1906 as the northern or second roundhouse of the town of Gorizia, and comprised a station building and a technical traction centre for supplying steam locomotives for traffic on the geographically demanding line.
Text and photos by Katja Kosič