An important moment in the process of globalization is the beginning of the 19th century, at the beginning of the 19th century, railway transport was invented and began to be used. Railway transport for the first time enables the connection of distant areas. Due to the needs of timber exploitation in the wider area of Podravina, the Slavonsko-Podravina railway was built. The route of the Slavonsko-Podravske railway that passed through Orahovica was abolished in 1967. In this master thesis, the concept of topography of memory is used to deepen the understanding of connection, sociability, economic prosperity and in general the idealization of the past through the analysis of material phenomena associated with the former railway route colloquially called the old railway, and the different narratives of the inhabitants about the role of it. In this master thesis the main questions are how the imaginary of the old railroad affects the self-identification of the inhabitants of the town of Orahovica, how it determines their ideas of the present, and how it opens questions about the idealization of the past. The theoretical framework of the research itself is related to memory studies and time studies which opens the questions of the connection between experience and space, the reconfiguration of space and the transformation of the concept of closeness and distance.