The southern continuation to Celje was inaugurated. March 1848: The Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire started. 1849: Extended to Ljubljana. Passengers still had to use the stagecoach across the Semmering Pass 1853: The k.k. Südliche Staatsbahn nationalised the Vienna–Gloggnitz line. 1848 to 1854: The section over the Semmering Pass was built. 17 July 1854: The direct railway connection from Vienna to Ljubljana was inaugurated. 1854 to 1857: The final section across the Karst Plateau was built. 12 July 1857: The first through train from Vienna to Trieste ran. 23 May 1858: The railway was sold to the newly established Austrian Southern Railway stock company. 1 June 1859: The last section of the North Italy extension was finished near Magenta, Lombardy. 4 June 1859: The Austrian Army was defeated at the Battle of Magenta. 1859: In the Second Italian War of Independence Austria lost Lombardy and with it the Lombardy section of the Southern Railway. 1860: The connection to Milan was opened. 1866: The Peace of Prague ended the Third Italian War of Independence. Austria lost Venetia and with it the Venetia section of the Southern Railway. 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain. Dissolution of Austria-Hungary after World War I. Austria lost all the Southern Railway south of the station at Spielfeld, Styria, which became a border station to Šentilj in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1929, present-day Slovenia). 1923: The Austrian Federal Railways took over. 1945 and after: During the Cold War trade between Vienna and Trieste was mainly run through Tarvisio. 1963: By now the tracks from Vienna through Tarvisio to Trieste had been electrified. 1966: By now the tracks from Vienna to Graz and Yugoslavia had been electrified. 2007: Border controls were abolished with Slovenia's accession to the Schengen Area. 12 September 2007: A very high value collectors' coin (the Austrian Southern Railways Vienna-Triest commemorative coin) was minted: its obverse shows the locomotive "Steinbrück" with one of the typical viaducts of the Semmering Railway in the background. The engine “Steinbrück” can be seen today in the Technical Museum in Vienna. It is the oldest existing locomotive built in Austria; it was built in 1848 for the Southern Railway. Train service While the connection between Vienna and Graz, partly provided by ÖBB Railjet high-speed trains, is busy, international passenger traffic to Trieste has decreased in past decades. Nevertheless, the railway is to be