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Get a ride throughout whole Montenegro, from the galleries and tunnels in the mountainous part of the country to the Adriatic Sea.
Looking from the direction of the Sea towards the interior of the coast, Railway line Belgrade - Bar rises from the sea level to an altitude of 1032 m.
The lowest point of the railway line is 3m altitude and it is located in the Port of Bar. The railway then slowly climbs to the Sozina tunnel. The Sozina tunnel, 6171m long, is the longest tunnel on the Belgrade - Bar line. After passing through the mountain Rumija the railway line meanders through the valley of Lake Skadar. Until the city Podgorica railway line is located in the plain.
After the city of Podgorica the line becomes much more interesting. There is a canyon of the river Morača. The line runs through a multitude of tunnels and galleries, across many bridges and continuously climbs towards Kolasin.
To overcome the high altitude difference at a short distance, a serpentine was made in the canyon of Mala Rijeka river. On that part the line crossing over the highest railway bridge in Europe. Mala Rijeka bridge has a height of 200m from river to track.
On one part of the railway there is a tunnel Trebesica with a bridge built in it. During the digging of the tunnel mountain cleavages have encountered. This part of track had to be bridged.
After Trebesica tunnel there is a continental climate and a different flora and fauna. The line highest point is located in the tunnel, near Kolašin. After Kolašin the line descends towards Bijelo Polje.
The whole Belgrade - Bar railway line has 254 tunnels and 234 bridges. There are 102 tunnels and 96 bridges in Montenegro.
The most prominent infrastructure facilities in the Montenegrin part are:
- Tunnel "Sozina" ( 6171m ),
- Bridge "Tanki rt" ( 200m ),
- Bridge "Mala Rijeka" ( 499m long, 200m height ),
- Tunnel "Trebesica" ( 5172m ),
- Tunnel "Ostrovica" ( 3827m ),
- Tunnel "Šljivovica" ( 2194m ),
- Bridge "Tara I" ( 270m long ),
- Tunnel "Radigojno" ( 2370m ),
- Bridge "Tara III" ( 340m long ),
- Tunnel "Razvršje" ("Mojkovac") ( 3246m ) and
- Bridge "Ljuboviđa" ("Slijepač most") ( 450m long ).
This video was created from train 433 "Lovćen" in March 2018.
The train composition and all essential route information are displayed during the video.
Get a ride throughout whole Montenegro, from the galleries and tunnels in the mountainous part of the country to the Adriatic Sea.
Looking from the direction of the Sea towards the interior of the coast, Railway line Belgrade - Bar rises from the sea level to an altitude of 1032 m.
The lowest point of the railway line is 3m altitude and it is located in the Port of Bar. The railway then slowly climbs to the Sozina tunnel. The Sozina tunnel, 6171m long, is the longest tunnel on the Belgrade - Bar line. After passing through the mountain Rumija the railway line meanders through the valley of Lake Skadar. Until the city Podgorica railway line is located in the plain.
After the city of Podgorica the line becomes much more interesting. There is a canyon of the river Morača. The line runs through a multitude of tunnels and galleries, across many bridges and continuously climbs towards Kolasin.
To overcome the high altitude difference at a short distance, a serpentine was made in the canyon of Mala Rijeka river. On that part the line crossing over the highest railway bridge in Europe. Mala Rijeka bridge has a height of 200m from river to track.
On one part of the railway there is a tunnel Trebesica with a bridge built in it. During the digging of the tunnel mountain cleavages have encountered. This part of track had to be bridged.
After Trebesica tunnel there is a continental climate and a different flora and fauna. The line highest point is located in the tunnel, near Kolašin. After Kolašin the line descends towards Bijelo Polje.
The whole Belgrade - Bar railway line has 254 tunnels and 234 bridges. There are 102 tunnels and 96 bridges in Montenegro.
The most prominent infrastructure facilities in the Montenegrin part are:
- Tunnel "Sozina" ( 6171m ),
- Bridge "Tanki rt" ( 200m ),
- Bridge "Mala Rijeka" ( 499m long, 200m height ),
- Tunnel "Trebesica" ( 5172m ),
- Tunnel "Ostrovica" ( 3827m ),
- Tunnel "Šljivovica" ( 2194m ),
- Bridge "Tara I" ( 270m long ),
- Tunnel "Radigojno" ( 2370m ),
- Bridge "Tara III" ( 340m long ),
- Tunnel "Razvršje" ("Mojkovac") ( 3246m ) and
- Bridge "Ljuboviđa" ("Slijepač most") ( 450m long ).
This video was created from train 433 "Lovćen" in March 2018.
The train composition and all essential route information are displayed during the video.
![Railway mountain pass Bradina and Tarčin viaducts Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo - Ploče [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YUyL-PLfMsY/hqdefault.jpg "Railway mountain pass Bradina and Tarčin viaducts Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo - Ploče [4K]
Railway line Sarajevo - Čapljina - Port of Ploče (Adriatic Sea) has one of its significant landmarks - great railway mountain pass Bradina. On its way from the inland of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Southeastern Europe, towards the Adriatic Sea, this railway line passes through some of the most beautiful natural areas in the Balkans. South of Sarajevo, and between Sarajevo and Konjic, there is a large mountain massif, which consists of the Bjelašnica and Prenj mountains slopes. In that place, the railway line overcomes a large height difference in a short distance. It climbs from the north side, overcoming deep valleys with very high and grandiose concrete bridges and viaducts. The most prominent are the 5 large, connected viaducts above the village of Tarčin. After the highest point at Bradina station, the steep and long railway descent towards the Neretva river valley begins. On that southern side, above the town of Konjic and between the village of Ovčari and railway station Grad, several long railway serpentines were built, in order to overcome the height difference of about 400 m. Along that way, numerous tunnels, bridges, viaducts, deep cuts and notches were built in the rocks of the steep mountain slopes.
There are few passenger and mostly freight trains, which mainly supply heavy industry inland, for the needs of the big and dirty industries of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. Of the passenger trains, there are only 2 pairs of daily Talgo fast trains between Sarajevo, Mostar and Čapljina. Train traction is performed by old, electric ASEA locomotives, ŽFBH 441 series (ŽFBH - Željeznice federacije Bosne i Hercegovine - Railways of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina). As the gradient, or track slope is over 23 ‰ in some places, heavy freight trains are generally consist of 11 to 13 loaded wagons, for trains that go uphill. Such trains are usualy hauled by two locomotives traction. Often one locomotive is at the front of the train and the other is banker locomotive at the back, pushing the train. Such freight trains usually transport various coal ores and weigh around 700 t.
In addition to several filmed freight trains, a special passenger train was also shown. It is a Golden Eagle Danube Express luxury train, chartered agency train that traveled on its multi-day journey from Paris across the Balkan Peninsula to Istanbul and Bucharest. On that long journey, the train made a detour from the main route for two days, so that tourists could ride this railway line and visit Sarajevo and Mostar. It consisted of 14 special luxury passenger cars, which were pulled by two locomotives over this mountain pass.
The most outstanding and interesting shots were taken around the Ovčari railway station, on the viaducts and at the tunnel portals above it. In order to create most of the video material, it was necessary to do a lot of hiking and walking in the surrounding terrain, which is mostly very difficult to access. Being there live, waiting for the trains and carefully and precisely choosing the video shots, is something that cannot be described in words. The sounds made by the trains winding small radius track curves through this mountain massif is something that needs to be experienced live and I hope the video managed to capture and transfer even a small part of it to the screen and speakers. Also, a particularly powerful sound is produced by the locomotives as they pull heavy trains up the steep track, as well as the train horn sounds, which echoes and can be heard from faraway places.
It took 5 years of recording to collect enough material for this trains compilation. The recording was done in all seasons. In winter, the dense pine forest on the northern side was covered with white traces of snow, while during the summer, on the southern side, a particularly loud sound of crickets appeared, which shows how hot it was. Perhaps the most beautiful and most represented during this video is the late autumn period. The mix of colors of coniferous and deciduous forest is something really vivid and calming to watch. The appearance of fog in the valley during autumn and the view of it deep under the railway line or along the railway line is something special. The lower levels of the line are covered in fog, the middle level is on the edge of the fog, and the upper part, high up in the mountain is in the sun and with an unreal view of that fog below. In a few parts, this video shows the appearance of the train deep below the fog, that is only audible and then the train slowly climbs and breaks through the fog, until it climbs high enough to emerge from the fog behind and continue its journey high above the misty mountain ridges and valleys. There are also special landscape views that make it fulfilled this railway line scenic nature and mountains surroundings.")
![Rail traffic in northeastern Bosnia - Heavy industry freight trains - EMDG16 diesel locomotives [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YxuHnEBOTiM/hqdefault.jpg "Rail traffic in northeastern Bosnia - Heavy industry freight trains - EMDG16 diesel locomotives [4K]
Railways in the northeast of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the area of Tuzla Canton, connect the largest industrial centers of heavy and dirty industry of Bosnia. Those lines are not electrified and connect coal mines with thermal power plants, industry for the production of coke coal, alumina, salt and sugar. Rail traffic in that region relied on steam locomotive traction. Today, steam locomotives mostly have replaced by large and powerful diesel locomotives manufactured by the American General Motors. Those locomotives are the backbone of freight traffic on non-electrified railways in Bosnia. These are locomotives of the EMD G16 series (Electro-Motive Division locomotives), in these areas known as the 661 series, under the nicknames Kennedy or Džems.
Heavy freight trains video compilation shows freight trains of Railways of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Željeznice Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine), Railways of Republika Srpska (Željeznice Republike Srpske) and freight wagons from abroad, such as Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary... Along with the video scenes of all trains, the basic data about those trains, such as train length, train mass, type of goods being transported and the trains transport route, are also written. There are mainly trains for the transportation of various types of coal, but there is also something really rare and exotic, such as the transportation of soda to Ukraine.
The largest generator of trains in Bosnia and Herzegovina is the complex of heavy and dirty industries in Lukavac. Some of the most important industries which use rail transport are:
Industry for coce coal production (Global Ispat Koksna Industrija doo (GIKIL, Koksara Lukavac)),
Sisecam Soda Lukavac,
Banovići, Šikulje and Dubrave coal mines (rudnik Banovići, rudnik Šikulje, rudnik Dubrave),
Thermal power plant Tuzla (Termoelektrana Tuzla),
Sugar refinery in Brčko (BIMAL Grupa) and
Alumina Zvornik in Karakaj, near Zvornik.
Coal for making coke coal is transported by trains from the Port of Ploče on the Adriatic Sea. Coke coal is exported by trains most often to the ironworks in Radinac, Serbia (HBIS Srbija, Železara Smederevo). Raw, crude sugar is brought from Brazil by ships to the Port of Ploče and then by trains to the sugar refinery in Brčko...
Lukavac train station is the main hub for all these heavy freight trains transports. Bosanska Poljana railway station is the main junction of the two main railway lines in this part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is intersect of Brčko - Banovići and Doboj - Tuzla lines. Another significant freight railway line, Živinice - Zvornik Novi, is separated a little further, at Živinice. Trains on all these lines are shown in this video.
In that part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, there is no passenger rail traffic anymore. The passenger train at the beginning of this video is a special passenger train on the occasion for celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Brcko - Banovići railway line. Right after that passenger train, only freight trains are shown.
As the railway traffic in these parts of the Balkans is very neglected and on some lines and tracks only one or two trains a day come across, the collection of material for the creation of this video lasted eight years. The recording period was from 2016 to 2023, during various seasons, mostly during the winter or late fall period.
It was a real pleasure and enjoyment recording to these powerful diesel locomotives, watching and listening to them live, while releasing a large amount of smoke, pulling heavy freight trains. I hope that at least a part of that feeling can be conveyed through the video.")
![Rail traffic in Serbia - Snowy time south of Belgrade [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZupyyDKH1cA/hqdefault.jpg "Rail traffic in Serbia - Snowy time south of Belgrade [4K]
Freight and passenger trains and locations from this video:
0:30 Mixed freight train, railway station Ralja,
2:38 Cleaning snow and ice from track switch,
3:05 EMU train, ŽS serie 416/416, station Ralja,
3:32 Railway bridge Parcani between Ralja and Ripanj tunel,
3:48 Intermodal container train to Port of Piraeus (Athens, Greece), near Ralja,
4:52 Freight train with wagons for metal coils transport, at station Rakovica,
6:22 Same train at railroad crossing between Resnik and Pinosava,
7:15 EMU Stadler Flirt, ŽS serie 413/417, station Ralja,
7:47 Intermodal container train to Cerkezkoy (Turkey), station Ralja,
9:10 EMU ŽS 412/416, between Resnik and Pinosava,
9:34 Freight train with tank wagons, private rail operator Kombinovani prevoz, Ralja,
10:47 Freight train departure from Ralja station,
13:08 EMU ŽS 413/417, Resnik,
13:29 Intermodal container train from Cerkezkoy (Turkey), between Resnik and Pinosava,
15:09 EMU ŽS 412/416, railroad crossing between Resnik and Rakovica,
16:00 Motorized rail vehicle for railway purposes, Resnik,
16:18 EMU ŽS 412/416, Resnik,
16:48 EMU ŽS 413/417, Resnik,
17:09 EMU ŽS 412/416, railroad crossing between Resnik and Rakovica.
December, 2018.")
![TENT Railway transport - Termoelektrane Nikola Tesla - Železnički transport [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_WHeUKZTkTo/hqdefault.jpg "TENT Railway transport - Termoelektrane Nikola Tesla - Železnički transport [4K]
Železnički transport Termoelektrane Nikola Tesla -
Prevoz uglja iz Kolubare i Tamnave za termoelektrane Vorbis i Obrenovac.
Power plants Nikola Tesla Railway transport -
Coal transport from Kolubara and Tamnava to Power plants Vorbis and Obrenovac.
Dates of capturing:
19.03.2016.
30.10.2016.")
![Splashing rail joints - the best edition of Serbian Railways :) [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a0voBq8ixhE/hqdefault.jpg "Splashing rail joints - the best edition of Serbian Railways :) [4K]
The railway part of Corridor 10 through Serbia has a good part of its length in a very poor condition due to lack of maintenance. On several sections of that railway corridor the track condition is extremely bad. Realization of some infrastructure projects are waiting for decades and during this time some of its parts are rapidly collapse.
An example is the main railway line between Belgrade and Novi Sad at the station Čortanovci. In this station infrastructure situation is unchanged for more than a decade. There are several ponds of mud and water below some switches. After heavy precipitation they make a real little chaos when train is passing. Part of this splashy chaos is shown in this video.
Its probably more interesting when there is even more water below the track.
Čortanovci,
March 2018.")
![Freight trains through Belgrade (Serbia) - The sad remains of Belgrade railway junction rails [4K]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aUt31pmPmD0/hqdefault.jpg "Freight trains through Belgrade (Serbia) - The sad remains of Belgrade railway junction rails [4K]
Rail traffic in Serbia - The sad remains of rails and trains through the Belgrade railway junction.
65 freight trains in 120 minutes Ultra HD video of the Belgrade railway junction. Specially highlighted recording locations:
Kijevo, Knezevac, Rakovica, Resnik, 2:46 the dog and a hidden cat on the train tracks, 4:15 special pipes train, 15:25 train snake and two locomotives train traction 16:34 (front and banker locomotive), 20:40 passenger wagons depot Kosutnjak, 29:16 bad rail joints and very bad track conditions around Resnik, 30:52 New railway bridge over the Sava river in Belgrade (the view from the pylon of the bridge and the great height above the city), 47:00 freight train through tunnel Vracar (Vukov spomenik underground station, dangerous goods and oil tank train), 51:00 winter snowy time around Belgrade, 1:31:47 long train snakes near Resnik, 1:51:10 the dog walks on the rail...
The video shows special mix of freight and passenger trains around Belgrade. Many mixed freight trains are shown, which are becoming history in this part of Europe. There were also many mixed freight trains with tank cars for the transportation of various hazardous materials, acids, fuels, oils and other industrial supplies. This compilation was recorded during the past 7 years, from 2017 to today.")
