The Benelux stands for Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg and was the front runner of the European Union. The title of this blog might surprise…
‘The Blue Train in Serbia’
In the Topčider depot in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, there is a special train kept with the name ‘Plavi Voz’, literally translated as the…
The old Sava railway bridge in Belgrade
Today we walked along the Sava river in Belgrade, which forms the geographical border between Central-Europe (North) and the Balkans (South). Until 1918 the border…
The year when we did not only skipped “April u Beogradu”
“April u Beogradu” is a famous song (listen here) about maybe one of the most beautiful months in Belgrade: April and the spring in full…
Dutch garbage transported by train wagons from Yugoslavia
The VAM stands for ‘Vuil Afvoer Maatschappij’ (in English translated as “garbage disposal company”) and was a Dutch company which arranged the garbage disposal for…
The Danube river and the Iron Gates – a small history
In the last weekend of June we visited with good friends the Djerdap National Park, with in it the Iron Gates. The Iron Gates (in…
A video from 1977 about a trip on the Belgrade-Bar railway
After I wrote an article for the NVBS (a Dutch train hobby club) I got some nice replies. One person, Kees van de Meene, was…
Mythical locomotives for Tito’s blue train.
Dinara, Kozara, Sutjeska and Neretva are names of famous battles which the Yugoslav partisans fought against the Germans during the Second World War in Yugoslavia.…
Joegoslavië / Yugoslavia / Jugoslawien express (2)
I write earlier about the Joegoslavië / Yugoslavia / Jugoslawien express (link), the direct train between the Netherlands and Yugoslavia (-Greece/Turkey) . Peter, a friend, was…
Joegoslavië / Yugoslavia / Jugoslawien express
When my father, who was working for more than 40 years for the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (= Dutch railways) , gave me some old Dutch railway…