Classic route
Belgrade–Niš Line
Belgrade → Niš · Serbia
Belgrade–Niš Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 230 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 6 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 36 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Srbijavoz
- Train
- Electric-locomotive-hauled regional coaches
- Countries
- Serbia
- In service since
- 1884
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Serbia’s first main line squeezes through the Grdelica Gorge on stone viaducts. Corridor X’s slowest link, now rebuilding for 200 km/h.
How this line was checked
- The 237 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 13666732 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 27 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 8 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 2903 (Zug-Nr. 2903)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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