Belgrade–Glavna railway station

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The main railway station of Belgrade (Serbian Главна железничка станица / Glavna železnička stanica ) is the main railway station of Serbian Railways in Serbia. The station serves the long-distance and regional transport and shunting and has existed since 1884.

Location

The main station is located in the Belgrade Savski Venac district on the Sava. The streets Balkanska ulica for Terazije and Nemanjina ulica lead to Slavija From the train station. The train station is across the bridge Stari Most Savski also from Novi Beograd. Currently is also the central bus station on the station.

History

The Belgrade main station was built 1881-1884 under Prince Milan Obrenović. On August 21, 1884, the railroad bridge was completed across the Sava, which should serve the marketing of Zemun and Pest (the route taken Zemun -Save bridge was completed on September 15, 1888). On August 23, was officially inaugurated and handed over to the public transport on September 3, with the first train on the railway line Belgrade - Nis railway station. Belgrade was thus below with Niš ( 1884), Pest ( 1884), Skopje (1888 ), Sofia ( 1888), Istanbul ( 1888) and Zagreb ( 1891) connected. The first train from Pest Coming adopted on 12 August 1888 the traffic over Belgrade to Istanbul. The Orient - Express wrong the first time from October 28, 1888 by Paris. Then replaced on 16 January 1916, the Balkan Express the 1914 set Orient- Express. It was introduced for the elite in politics, military and economy and had high quality sofa and seating weighing of partially seized cars CIWL. With the defeat of the Central Powers in the First World War, the Balkanzug was discontinued and replaced by the re- run by the CIWL Simplon -Orient- Express. For this and for other, introduced after the Second World War in remote connections to northern and western Europe such as the Hellas - Express, the meridian or the Istanbul Express Belgrade Central Station is one of the most important holding stations remained.

Since the beginning of the 1970 years has been a significant reconstruction of the railway infrastructure of Belgrade in the so-called Belgrade railway junction. Here, the complete replacement of the historic Central Station was provided. Due to the sluggish completion of the imaginary as the new central train station Belgrade center the target and the current Central Station is also changed after the completion of the new station, if continue to exist in a reduced form. It should be used in particular for regional transport, for purposes of protocol and for tourist use.

Operation

Because of the system as a terminus a locomotive change is always required. In regional transport EMUs are as push-pull trains in operation.

Long-distance traffic

The Roadmap 2010/2011 there is the Belgrade Central Station following departures to intercity and long-distance destinations:

Regional Transport

In addition to the long-distance connections above the Belgrade Main Station serves the regional connections to Sid, Subotica, Nis, Požarevac and Prijepolje. All regional routes are thereby navigated by electrified DMUs. Belgrade's main train station is not connected to the S -Bahn network of the city. The local rail services the Beovoz and bg: voz stops Centar, Novi Beograd and Vukov Spomenik. The most important railway junction of the municipal rail transport is Vukov Spomenik station. In addition, from Beograd Dunav station all trains in the Banat ( relation to Pancevo and Zrenjanin ).

The following regional transport services operate in the Belgrade Main Station:

Problems in the operation

Since setting the continuous distance connections Ljubljana -Zagreb -Belgrade -Skopje -Thessaloniki (Olympus - Express) 2007 as well as the set already in the 1990s connections of Hellas Express train and Acropolis Express train is the main station of Belgrade railway junction for trains to and from Turkey, Bulgaria and Macedonia and secondly to and from Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia. Because here but only a few connecting trains are provided, and long delays are more the rule than exception, especially when it comes to Umstiegen impairments in pan-European long-distance transport. These problems are the limited capacity of the old terminal station, the for through connections from the former Yugoslavia built but not yet gone into operation new station Station Belgrade Centre and the sluggish double-track extension and the underdeveloped rail infrastructure in the railway junction Belgrade to blame.