High-speed rail passes test, trains can now travel at 200 kmph in Serbia: The first was a Stadler train
"This fast and comfortable ride is proof of how much this railway line will mean to residents of the two largest cities in Serbia, and therefore to the entire country"
President of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic attended the promotional ride on a new train intended for high-speed railway lines, a Stadler KISS, traveling between Belgrade and Petrovaradin (Novi Sad).
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"For the first time, a Stadler train, 200 kilometers per hour through Serbia!," the president wrote in a caption to a video he posted of the ride.
The mayor of Novi Sad, Milos Vucevic, was also on the train that left Belgrade for the new train to the station in Petrovaradin, which has been renovated.
"In under 30 minutes of a spectacular ride on the new Stadler KISS train, in the company of President Aleksandar Vucic and Gerhard Schroeder, the former chancellor of Germany, I 'flew' from the Belgrade Center Station to the Petrovaradin Station. This fast and comfortable ride is proof of how much this railway line will mean to residents of the two largest cities in Serbia, and therefore to the entire country," Vucevic wrote on Instagram, and added:
"The city of Novi Sad built a canopy with the name of the station in Petrovaradin, paved the access road starting from the main one and all access pedestrian paths, set up flagpoles, installed lighting on the roundabout in front of the building, provided complete immobile furniture such as benches, trash cans, flower boxes and bicycle stands, displayed flags on the building, and the City also branded the building with pictograms, set up an LCD panel with a sign directing toward the fast road, landscaped the entire area and planted ornamental shrubs and trees."
"Extensive work is underway to reconstruct and improve the appearance of Novi Sad's 'old lady' - the Main Railway Station on the Jase Tomica Boulevard, which will soon welcome the first high-speed train, looking completely different and modern. Fellow citizens, in less than a month, what seemed impossible will become a reality, it doesn't do it justice to say only that I am delighted with what I've experienced," the mayor of Novi Sad, Milos Vucevic, posted on Instagram.
(Telegraf Biznis)