Railways in

Serbia

Steam hauled passenger train on the narrow gauge Šargan Eight heritage railway.
The photograph is taken from a third level of the railway line, above the two seen in the picture.

In 1854, the Austro-Hungarian Empire opened a horse drawn railway line from Lisava to Bazijas. It was converted to locomotive traction in 1856. Although both towns are in present day Romania, about 27km of the line fell within present day Serbia. Only a short stretch remains in use today.

The primary railway development in Serbia itself commenced in 1884 with the opening of the 271km line from Beograd to Niš. It was constructed to standard (1435mm) gauge. Subsequent railway development used a variety of gauges, a complex situation which was only gradually resolved during the reconstruction of the then Yugoslavia following the Second World War.

Serbia has international rail links with Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Romania. A short section of the line from Belgrade to Bijelo Polje, Montenegro, passes through Bosnia with a station at Štrpci, but has no connection with other railways in Bosnia.

• Srbija Voz national and international passenger services, and tourist services in historic trains (Site in Serbian, little information regarding tourist services, link for English section not functional when last checked)
• Srbija Kargo national and international freight services.
• Rail Cargo Carrier - Southeast independent freight operator.
• InfraZS infrastructure authority (Site in Serbian: Cyrillic alphabet)
• Šargan Eight tourist and museum railway between Mokra Gora and Šargan Vitasi, about 10km, 760mm gauge, diesel hauled. The line is so named because it follows a course resembling the figure 8. Reconstruction of a section from Mokra Gora to Višegrad, Bosnia, was completed in 2010, but has seen little use.
• EPS lignite (brown coal) mines in the Kolubara area. A narrow gauge electrified railway conveys lignite to the Kolubara A power plant in Veliki Crljeni. At one time, narrow gauge steam locomotives operated within the mine complex, but it is not clear whether they still do so. Lignite is conveyed to the Nikola Tesla A and B plants in Obrenovac by a branch of Serbian Railways from Veliki Crljeni, and to the Morava plant in Svilajnac by Serbian Railways main lines (Website contains only a small amount of information relating to railways)
• Beograd (Belgrade)
  • GSP Beograd Trams
  • Beograd Metro and Train BG-Voz commuter services in Belgrade, and proposed Metro