Travelling
Due to many bends and ascents the average trains' speed was only 25 km/h and together with all stops the whole journey between Trieste and Poreč took around 7 hours. At slower sections passengers could jump off the train, pick a fruit from one of many orchards or relieve themselves (there were no toilets in cars) and return back to the train. Many stowaways who could not afford to buy expensive tickets used this option to avoid ticket controls. At the steepest sections locomotives often could not handle the slope so all passengers had to disembark the train and push it. Sometimes the train stopped because children greased rail tracks with figs so the journey could only continue when the tracks were cleaned.
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