Serbian Railways Infrastructure ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Инфраструктура Железнице Србије, Infrastruktura Železnice Srbije, separator=" / ") is the national

railway infrastructure manager A railway infrastructure manager is a rail transport company or body of other type, responsible for maintaining railway infrastructure. The European Union defines it as "any body or undertaking that is responsible in particular for establishing and ...

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History

In March 2015, the

Government of Serbia The government of Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Влада Србије, Vlada Srbije), formally the Government of the Republic of Serbia ( sr-cyrl, Влада Републике Србије, Vlada Republike Srbije), commonly abbreviated to Serbian Governme ...

announced its plan to establish three new railway companies, splitting the

Serbian Railways Serbian Railways ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Железнице Србије, Železnice Srbije, separator=" / "; abbr. / ) is a Serbian engineering and technical consulting company based in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2015, the Government of Serbia establishe ...

state-owned company in separate businesses – passenger (

Srbijavoz Srbijavoz ( sr-Cyrl, Србијавоз; formerly Srbija Voz, sr-Cyrl, Србија Воз, Anglicized: Serbia Train) is the national passenger railway company of Serbia. Srbijavoz is an associate member of the International Union of Railways ( ...

), cargo (

Srbija Kargo Srbija Kargo ( sr-Cyrl, Србија Карго, Anglicized: Serbia Cargo) is the national state-owned cargo railway company of Serbia. History In March 2015, the Government of Serbia announced its plan to establish three new railway companies, ...

) and infrastructure (Serbian Railways Infrastructure). Srbija Voz was founded on 10 August 2015, as the national passenger railway company of

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, after being split from the

, in the process of reconstruction and better optimization of business.

Current modernization projects

In February 2019, Srbijavoz temporarily suspended transportation on

Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. T ...

–

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; #Name, see below for other names) is the List of cities in Serbia, second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannoni ...

railway, one of the country’s most frequent passenger routes, in February 2022, due to the railway line’s reconstruction. This line in now completely reconstructed and modernized. The route is 75 km long and its reconstruction is currently extended from

Subotica Subotica (, ; , , ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city in Central Europe and the administrative center of the North Bačka District in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Formerly the largest city of Vojvodina region, contemporary Sub ...

, (border with

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

) for the speed of 200 km/h as part of the modernization of the Belgrade-Budapest railway line. The reconstruction and modernization of the railway lines is also planned between

and

Niš Niš (; sr-Cyrl, Ниш, ; names of European cities in different languages (M–P)#N, names in other languages), less often spelled in English as Nish, is the list of cities in Serbia, third largest city in Serbia and the administrative cente ...

for a speed of 200 km/h,

and

Preševo Preševo ( sr-Cyrl, Прешево, ; , ) is a town and municipality located in the Pčinja District of southern Serbia. As of the 2022 census, the municipality has a population of 33,449 inhabitants. It is the southernmost town in Central Serbia a ...

for the speed of 160 km/h (border with

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) and

and Dimitrovgrad for the speed of 120 km/h(border with

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

). In 2017, as part of the contract with RZD, reconstruction began on the Belgrade-Novi Sad-Subotica line, on the section between

Stara Pazova Stara Pazova (, ; ; ) is a small town located in the Srem District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. The town has a population of 18,522, while Stara Pazova municipality has 62,318 inhabitants (2022 census). The entrance into town f ...

and

, Belgrade-Bar line, on the section between Resnik on the outskirts of Belgrade, and

Valjevo Valjevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ваљево, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Kolubara District in western Serbia. According to the 2022 census, the city itself has a population of 56,145 while the city admini ...

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* Companies based in Belgrade Government-owned companies of Serbia Railway companies established in 2015 Railway infrastructure managers Railway companies of Serbia Serbian companies established in 2015 {{Serbia-company-stub

History

Current modernization projects

See also

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