Serbian Railways

Four wagons transporting phosphoric acid derailed, and as we learned from the reporter at the scene, no one was injured.
Members of the police and fire department are on the scene. The process of returning the wagons to the rails is underway, and as B92.net has learned, there was no spill of phosphoric acid.

BELGRADE - Serbia will further upgrade its railway infrastructure thanks to a 25 mln euro loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

"Srbija Voz, Serbia's national rail passenger operator, will use the loan to build a new regional depot in Nis and rehabilitate two existing ones in Zemun and Sombor," the EBRD said in a statement.

A BIRN investigation has identified serious delays on all three sections of the line, as well as mistakes that have cost Serbia almost $35 million in penalties; it also turned up documents showing that almost $720,000 of an $800 million Russian loan for the railway line was spent on the lease of six cars from a Russian contractor.

Years behind schedule

Serbian Railways on December 10 introduced a new timetable, making Belgrade Center Prokop the capital's main station for almost all domestic traffic.

Only three pairs of trains traveling between Belgrade and Novi Sad will from now on use Belgrade Main Railway Station in Savski Square.

International trains will also continue to use this station.

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Serbian Railways and Russian Railways (RZD) subsidiary RZD International inked an agreement in Belgrade on Tuesday.

It concerns reconstruction and modernization of three sections of Corridor 10 in southern Serbia, whose length totals 46 kilometers, scheduling the start of the construction works for the first quarter of 2016.

The Serbian government has made a formal decision to divide Serbian Railways into four companies.

Those will be Holding, Infrastruktura, Srbija Voz and Kargo, the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic said on Friday that she expects that the reconstruction of around 500 kilometres of rail lines will be completed over the next three years and that the public railway company will be fully reformed.

BELGRADE - Indian state-owned enterprise Rites Ltd. is interested in development projects of Serbian railways and economy, the officials of this company and their partner company AFII said Tuesday while visiting Serbian Railways, the Serbian railway company stated.

Reconstruction of Corridor 10 railway section

BELGRADE -- The reconstruction and modernization works on a railway section of Corridor 10 funded by a Russian loan was launched on Monday.

Serbian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic announced the start of works.

SOPOT - Serbian Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic announced on Monday the start of reconstruction and modernization works on a railway section of Corridor 10 funded by a Russian loan.