DIRECTORS OF CROATIAN, AUSTRIAN RAILWAYS MEET IN ZAGREB

ZAGREB, Sept 4 (Hina) - Directors of Croatian Railways and Austrian Railways Marijan Klaric and Helmut Heinitz held talks on standardizing railway traffic quality along pan-European corridor X in Zagreb on Thursday. Klaric and Heinitz agreed that Austrian Railways would co- ordinate activities in standardizing railway traffic quality from Salzburg (Austria) via Ljubljana (Slovenia), Zagreb (Croatia), Belgrade (Yugoslavia), Skopje (Macedonia) to Salonika (Greece) - as the principal line in the corridor - and along five secondary lines, of which the Graz (Austria)-Maribor (Slovenia)-Zagreb one is particularly important for Croatia, the Croatian Railways general director's office said in a statement. Klaric informed his Austrian colleague about activities Croatian Railways were undertaking to the effect of introducing traffic all across the corridor. Among these was the resumption of traffic between Croatia and Yugoslavia with two pairs of passenger and four pairs of cargo trains which, according to the statement, should increase according to user interest. The two directors approved a technical regulation on electronic signals. The regulation is the result of a joint venture among railways of Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and GySEV. (hina) ha jn 041809 MET sep 97