An oblique aerial over the old marshalling yard and locomotive depot at Železnička kolonija, between Detelinara and today's Novo naselje. Rank after rank of parallel sidings packed with freight wagons fill the foreground and the left of the frame. At the right stands the horseshoe-shaped Ložionica, the locomotive roundhouse, set around a central turntable with its tracks fanning out into the building; heritage documentation records 22 radial tracks running from the turntable through double metal doors. Workshops, service buildings, fenced compounds, arched prefabricated sheds and a few road vehicles are spread across the middle and upper part of the complex, with houses and gardens beyond it. The photograph shows the whole working yard that once surrounded the Ložionica, which survives.
About this place
The city's freight and marshalling yard, laid out west of the historic centre between today's Detelinara and Novo Naselje, with the semicircular locomotive depot known as the Ložionica at its heart, built around a turntable with radial tracks running into the shed. Archive-referenced research records approval of the marshalling-yard project in 1915, a construction agreement in 1916, expropriation of land from 1918, and a project for the Ložionica with its depots in 1924. An architect's elevation of that shed survives lettered Ложионица у полукругу and dated Novi Sad, April 1924, so the sequence rests on a dated drawing rather than on a secondary account alone. Accounts giving 1911 or 1912 for the depot, and those associating its design with Gustave Eiffel's office, are undocumented. The yard was bombed in the Allied attacks of 1944 and parts of the complex were rebuilt afterwards.
- Date
- c. 1924–1944
- Coordinates
- 45.25296, 19.81099
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 735 × 606 px
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