STRANDED on Europe's MOST INCREDIBLE Train Ride!?

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  @Triplex5014 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2lbYvRHTDc&amp;t=950">15:50</a> Lutovo station. A station doesn&apos;t have to necessarily have platforms for boarding passengers. That station serves as a place where two trains can pass each other because of the single track line and the station has a secondary track for that purpose. <br>I would love to travel the Belgrade-Bar line one day.<br><br>Greetings from Croatia from a train engineer!

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  @arsenijearsic309 · 3 years ago

  I live in Belgrade and I completely understand your impression. Many of us, Belgraders, are ashamed of the relocation of the central railway station to this &apos;hole&apos; named Prokop (which literally means &apos;dug through&apos; in Serbian). Anyway, your videos and reviews are excellent, keep up with the great work!

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  @borisangelov3775 · 3 years ago (edited)

  Every normal person on train delay scheduele: Pretty nervous and frustrated for being late.<br>Serbs on train delay scheduele: Let&apos;s have some sunbathing on the tracks boys!<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2lbYvRHTDc&amp;t=634">10:34</a>

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  @jirislavicek9954 · 3 years ago

  I was taking a tour through Balcans in 2000. I arrived too late at the station to catch this Bar train, I think there was one train a day. A taxi driver saw me &nbsp;rushing in just when the train was leaving the platform. He offered me to catch the train in next station, which he did and it took about an hour. He was driving like a maniac and we almost crashed. <br>The train journey was lovely and scenic.<br>What happened to the old station is a disgrace, I remember it well. I also remember a overnight train where passengers could take their cars, they were unloading them on the platform. I don&apos;t know which direction it came from.

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  @JosipRadnik1 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I travelled from my hometown near Basel (Switzerland) to Belgrade back in 1985 when I was a 14 year old boy. I can remember very well that back then, trains in Yugoslavia were not the same standard as in my country, albeit just a little less confortable, a little more crowded and a little slower, but a reliable and confortable means of transport nontheless at a low cost on top of it. It certainly wasn&apos;t worse than in Italy. That was then though... some 40 years later, when I had the brilliant idea to redo the trip from Belgrade to Split (Croatia) by train - as I did on one of my holiday trips in the late 80ies - together with my wife, I was shocked how badly run down the railway lines were. The train was trotting along the line, barely surpassing 40 kph at any time. The interior of the coaches was in shambles. We were the only passengers in the whole car. When we left Belgrade station my head was almost struck by a treebranch as strong as my forearm that was scratching along the sides of the coach. By the time we arrived in Zagreb, I had already caught some skin infection. From there on we continued our journey going along the same line as back then (although somewhat kept in good shape) in a smaller but more modern train. &nbsp;The journey was cheap though...<br>I feel greatly sorry for the loss of the old Station in the center of Belgrade and I don&apos;t know if the current solution is better - but whatever it is, I just hope they can bring railways back to life in Serbia (and Bosnia too for that matter) - it is such a shame how they&apos;ve been ruined over the past decades.<br>.

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  @Mergatroid · 3 years ago

  Coming back to this after having had a 21 hour delay on Amtrak makes me feel like Serbian train reliability isn&apos;t so bad

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  @stephanweinberger · 4 years ago

  Lutovo is a crossing station on the single-track line; it&apos;s sole purpose is to allow trains to pass or overtake each other. AFAIK it also houses some of the electric supply for that section of track.

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  @Hudute · 4 years ago

  I can understand you frustrations, but for me the (night train) journeys that go wrong in some way (read: horribly) are always the most memorable. <br>I, for example, used the old Nairobi-Mombasa lunatic express in 2015, a few months before it was shut down for the modern replacement. About everything that could go wrong did. <br>We&apos;d already departed Nairobi around 6hours late, and by the time we reached Mombasa had raised that to almost a day late, we&apos;d been stopped by an elephant herd crossing the tracks, been stuck in the Tsavo desert by a long abandoned water stop from the colonial days, abandoned before independence because a freight train broke down on the line. Of course we also plundered all beer stores on the train over the hours as well so were friends when we reached our destination. And all that on a train that had been built in the 50s that had no AC, some working sliding windows, but at least the doors locks were all broken so we could cool off by hanging out of those. In short an absolutely amazing experience and my highlight in years of traveling by train. <br>I hope you look back on this journey in a similar way!

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  @Inferno-hn3zx · 9 months ago

  Romanian locomotive manufacturer plack on 316. 50 years old and never properly maintained locomotives (441) surprisingly work at all.

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  @nad0b0lS · 3 years ago

  The old railway station in Belgrade has not been demolished, it has been renovated and will become a museum. They did remove the tracks, since it will no longer be a station.

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  @heidirabenau511 · 4 years ago

  This reminds me of Chris Tarrant&apos;s Extreme Railway Journeys and in one episode he travels to the Republic of the Congo and his train breaks down in the middle of a tunnel, in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere

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  @funkyhetzer6624 · 4 years ago

  As s serb viewer, thank you for making this! Even if you had some problems during the journey, I hope you enjoyed it!

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