L202 railway (Croatia)

The Hum Lug-Gornja Stubica railway, officially designated as the L202 railway, is a 10.823 km (6.725 mi) railway line of local significance in Croatia that connects corridor's east terminus Gornja Stubica, along with the halts Donja Stubica, Stubičke Toplice and Oroslavje, with the R201 railway corridor (Zaprešić-Čakovec) in Hum Lug.

The line, opened in 1916 in former Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia (present-day Croatia), is single-tracked and non-electrified. Trains that operate on this line have their 17 minutes run (according to current schedule) between stations Gornja Stubica and Zabok, using the corridor R201 for about 2 kilometers between Hum Lug and Zabok, where connections with the trains running on R201 and L203 (Zabok-Krapina-Đurmanec-state border) corridors are made. The most recent reconstruction of this corridor took place in the mid-2000s,^[1] which resulted in increasing of maximum operating speed for passenger trains to 60 km/h and reducing of riding time on the entire route.^[2]

Introduction of diesel-motor trains on the route began in the 1980s and from the early 1990's they have been operating passenger services exclusively, replacing compositions made of two-axle cars powered by steam and later diesel locomotives. Excursion trains operate a couple of times a year as a transport for local manifestations along the line.

Stubičke Toplice train stop on L202 route in 2021

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