For info: this track is SE of Zagreb, en route towards Belgrade, openrailwaymap shows it was rather slow. Maybe they are concerned that the new fast line from Budapest - Belgrade competes with their route Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Belgrade, to be the main line from Germany to Turkey.
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A wee quote from the author of the original little red book …:
the two slogans – let a hundred flowers blossom and let a hundred schools of thought contend – have no class character; the proletariat can turn them to account, and so can the bourgeoisie or others. Different classes, strata and social groups each have their own views on what are fragrant flowers and what are poisonous weeds.
Seemed a good idea at the time, remember how that trick evolved thereafter …?
I agree it’s bad now, but it seems to me there is hope.
At least BDZ has a well electrified network - better than some neighbours.
The old balkan ‘main-line’ went via Serbia, whose railways indeed got worse, but Belgrade recently completed a new central station and they expect to open a 2h40 service from Budapest soon - this spring, iirc. They also got plenty of EU money to finance the line to Nis, and (slower) from there to Dmitrovgrad (i.e. to Sofia), maybe by 2027. When all this is complete, you could realistically imagine a one-night (9h) train Sofia-Wien.
Is BDZ anticipating this, or wil ÖBB run it?
Also I suppose night trains to Istanbul were cut back while they fixed new tracks beyond Halkali, but there is huge demand potential.
But that map ( last year’s ) shows the headline is not true - there are still night trains across Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, and from Belgrade to Bar. Hopefully in summer optima-tours will return on the route to turkey. Of course, we used to have more - nothing to Greece, no more Orient Express, but as i understand TEN is funding track improvements from Serbia to Bulgaria after which such routes may become viable again ?
Too true, and good analogy with building a house extension…