Former train station Ivani

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In middle seventies of XX. century an coke factory was opened in Bakar. Processed coke was transported to Ivani using tubeline with conveyor belt in tubes. Here it was reloaded to wagons, railway compositions were formed and dispatched to inner land of former Yugoslavia. Coke from Bakar was used in Sisak and Zenica (Bosnia) iron factories.

Ivani bulk cargo station lost its function in 1995, when Bakar coke factory was closet for ecological reasons. Space of station is still owned by Croatian railways (Hrvatske Željeznice), but is leased to Dalekovod d.d., company that is engaged on Bakar-Križišće road construction (part of future highway Rijeka-Žuta Lokva).

Ivani station is cut-off from the rest of railways in early 2000s, when the switch to it was removed from Škrljevo-Bakar track. That was a beginning of deterioration and devastation of railway infrastructure on this section. Devastation reached its climax in autumn of 2011, when rails and sleepers were moved from entire space of former station. Station building is also abandoned, devastated and ruined.

In a context of new track from Rijeka to Botovo (hungarian border), there were some plans to build a wagon and locomotives wash in Ivani, but entire project of that new track is blocked because financial problems.