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Map of running passenger lines in Serbia and Kosovo (green lines = passenger trains run) in 2023

It can be very tricky to find information on trains in Serbia online – do please let the mod team know if you find any information here out of date and/or traveled yourself and have anything to add.

Getting to Belgrade by train

There are currently no intercity trains linking Serbia to other countries with the exception of Montenegro (Belgrade-Bar), so your options of getting to Serbia by train are quite adventurous.

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1: From Budapest/Hungary: travel via Szeged/Subotica:

a) A regional trains used to operate Subotica-Kelebia timed to connect with onward trains twice a day to/from Budapest. Though connections to/from Belgrade are poor with long waits. You will also need to change stations in Novi Sad.

	Arrive	Depart	Number
Belgrade		0809	IC 540 (reservations compulsory)
Novi Sad	0845	0940	RE 3432 (rail replacement bus)
Novi Sad Ranžirna	0950	1000	RE 3432
Subotica	1340	1637	SI 7306
Szeged	1802	1845	IC 701 (reservations compulsory)
Budapest Nyugati	2107

Heading in the other direction:

	Arrive	Depart	Number
Budapest Nyugati		0553	IC 700 (reservations compulsory)
Szeged	0815	0858	SI 7303
Subotica	1024	1500	RE 3413
Novi Sad Ranžirna	1841	1850	RE 3432 (rail replacement bus)
Novi Sad	1900	1930	RE 2423
Belgrade	2027

You can check this information at:

• https://jegy.mav.hu/?lang=en – for trains Budapest to Szeged
• https://www.volanbusz.hu/files/public/menetrendek/nemzetkozi/600.pdf – for bus 600 Szeged-Subotica
• https://www.srbvoz.rs/en/timetable-kurir/ – and click “Novi Sad – Bogojevo – Sombor – Subotica (PDF)” for trains Subotica-Novi Sad [including rail replacement buses] – Direct Link
• https://www.srbvoz.rs/en/timetable-kurir/ – and click “Belgrade Center – Novi Sad – Subotica (PDF)” for trains Novi Sad-Belgrade [currently no trains run through to Subotica direct] – Direct Link

More information can be found at: https://www.mavcsoport.hu/mav-start/belfoldi-utazas/menetrend-modosulas-a-kelebiai-vonalon (archive link)

b) Take a later train to Szeged, hitchhike to Subotica, then follow the above connection to Novi Sad and Belgrade. A highway links Szeged and Subotica, distance around 40km, seems doable.

2a: from Bucharest/Romania: make your way to Timișoara and then take the train to Stamora Moravita station, departure either 07:46 or 14:52 (from Timișoara Nord) and arrival at 09:01 or 16:06. From there, the railroad continues to Vrsac in Serbia but there are no passenger services. Luckily, both stations lie adjacent to the same main road – the only major road in the area – so hitchhiking would be an easy feat. It’s about a 19km, 20 minute drive. At Vrsac, trains leave at 12:05, 14:46, and 18:58 to Belgrade.

2b: alternatively from Timișoara take a long distance bus. https://www.autogari.ro/Transport/Timisoara-BelgradeRS & https://geatours.rs/en/minibus-transfer/timisoara/ provide service. A review of the later can be found at: https://www.reddit.com/r/Interrail/comments/15x5j7b/travel_report_from_romania_to_belgrade_serbia/

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3: from Zagreb/Croatia: make your way to Osijek and stay overnight. A 06:22 service links Osijek with Erdut (arr. 07.43), from where it’s an 8km hike/hitchhike across the border to Bogojevo. From Bogojevo station regular services to Novi Sad. The other direction has a 14.30 service from Erdut to Osijek with connection to Zagreb, meaning Belgrade-Zagreb is doable in 1 day but not vice versa.

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this is based on a post by u/Tobberd

Recent changes:

• In late November 2023 trains between Subotica-Szeged where re-started with 5 (!) trips a day in each direction. Press report Timetable
• In September 2023 trains between Subotica-Kelebia where suspended – having been cut from twice to once a day earlier in the year. At the same time the Szeged-Kelebia MÁV-START rail replacement bus was suspended.
• In April 2023 trains between Sofia and Dimitrovgrad where suspended.