Hungary to Serbia by Train | Szeged to Subotica restored service
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- Welcome to the travel report from Szeged in Hungary to Subotica / Суботица in Serbia by diesel train SV 711 on a reopened route.
RE SV 7303
Tickets from Hungarian railways:
jegy.mav.hu
Tip: If travelling from Budapest, it is much cheaper to buy 2 separate tickets (Budapest-Szeged and Szeged-Subotica) as the direct Budapest-Subotica ticket has a “special international” fare.
People were also buying tickets from the train conductor in Serbian dinars (cash).
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Filmed in April 2024.
00:00 Intro
00:14 Travel Info
00:51 Szeged & Station
02:01 The Train
03:20 The Train Journey
05:33 Subotica
Amazing, thank you!
Very cool video! I want to take this route one day too. Perhaps you could take the Pécs-Beli Manastir route one day too? It's a quite short international route connecting Hungary and Croatia.
Thank you for the recommendation. Pécs is on my to-see list. It would be nice if this line would be extended to Osijek.
Siemens Desiro!
Nice
That are Russian diesel locomotives, They were bought like 15 years ago.In Serbia there was 0 Invesment in rail network for 30 years so speeds were falling off the cliff to the point that everyone gived up off using rail .In last 3-4 years thing are going for better slowly so i hope for good future for rail here. Subotica-Belgrade high speed rail will be open later this year
Actually things are not going for better except for 1% of the network between Subotica and Belgrade, rest of the network is falling appart. Trains were regular on many lines 10 years ago that are now not even active anymore (Belgrade to Kragujevac or Čačak). You had 15+ international active lines before SNS rule, now you have to Montenegro and this short Szeged train, which is almost Albania shit level.
@@carick235 agree with u 100%. where is the BG Ljubljana train line? i am waiting to ride that train for some years now? in the past trains run very often on that line
@@aantonic Ask Croatian railways why they interupted this line ? More than 800 km railways in the last 10 years, reconstructed in Serbia for speeds 100-120 km/h .Niš-Bulgarian frontier section is on coridor X and isn't electrificied. Now. there is full reconstruction and will be electrificied. At the end of this year begin railway construction section between Niš and Belgrade for high speed / 200 km/h /.
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Nice high quality video! What camera do you use btw
Thank you. I use DJI Osmo 4.
@@Europe-By-Train Your welcome. Btw do you use gimbal or body strap to film. I was thinking about getting the pocket 3 but looking at your quality of work might just get the Osmo 4 not sure which one would you recommend many thanks!
Neither, just the mini extension rod for better grip. Never used Pocket or gimbal, so cannot compare :) I like how easy it is to unclip the rod from the camera when I record through the window. Depends on the use. What do you plan to shoot?
@@Europe-By-Train Thanks mate. Flight reviews hopefully
Stadler FLIRT use after electrification!
I rode this route a few weeks ago to try it. I think on the way there it was a similar locomotive as this one but the return trip was a MÁV branded one.
The long wait at the border probably could have been reduced. They checked everyone’s documents quickly and then we just had to sit for a while.
I had the same one both ways, but saw on YT some videos with those in MÁV colours.
Our border check from Serbia took long, as they seemed to have data connection issue and each passport took long to verify.
@@Europe-By-TrainSo they check with some portable machine? Meaning they scan it?
In some instances as I heard border controls will just see your passport only but that's between Schengen regions.
The officer slides the passport through a scanner. The MRZ, located at the bottom of the passport's personal data page, contains two lines of text with alphanumeric characters and chevrons. The scanner reads the MRZ and extracts the encoded information. The extracted information is then cross-checked against various databases to verify the passport's validity and the traveler's identity. This can include checking for stolen or lost passports, verifying visa information, and confirming the traveler's entry eligibility.
@@Europe-By-Train Thank you very much. Actually there may one more addition to this, they kind of do a digital stamp meaning that at least with modern chip based passports they scan it and then a central database would know that you crossed that border at that special time and place. Could it be so?
@@user-cd9rd7jb2z As this is an external border, they are required to fully check and log all people and documents crossing, as well as cross check with SIS and other relevant databases. Within Schengen (internal borders) regular checks in general don't take place (that's the point). In case of exceptional circumstances (usually fight against extreme illegal immigration) you can be asked to identify yourself/legality of presence, but in most cases, this is done purely visually, often just to see that you in fact have such a document. Stamps are currently used to track how long third country nationals have stayed, this however in practice is not too reliable and hence soon the EES and ETIAS will be used, which will track these digitally, in a centralized manner managed by EULisa
I dont get it , i know currently they Build a high Speed rail between Belgrade and Budapest but this section isn‘t Part of the route or is it?
No, the high-speed rail line is being built over Kelebia.
This section was also upgraded recently to 120 km/h in Serbian part, but Belgrade-Budapest HSR line is going from Subotica towards Kelebia in HU, west of Szeged.
I think its a pretty stupid decision by Hungarian government not to put Szeged on the main Belgrade-Budapest route, they basically put Szeged as the 3rd biggest city on the 2nd level line.
@@carick235 It makes more sense if you know the history of the region. Beograd (and Subotica) used to be part of Hungary when the railway lines were built, a direct route was logical, Szeged was more like a regional centre. After World War 1 if I remember correctly it was part of the peace deal that the second track on the main line was lifted (Yugoslavia was scared of a potential Hungarian invasion) and the changes in borders, politics etc. made Szeged more important. Main freight and passenger traffic was moved to the Budapest-Szeged Line and that became main line.
The station in Szeged is not a through station, it is dead end, so any attempt to divert the main route that way either would require a new station further away from the city centre or a tunnel underneath the historic city centre. The line also joins from the South in Subotica, essentially turning back towards Hungary, so unless you want to change direction there you need a spur circling the city from North or a triangle at the existing junction and you skip Subotica. Even then, you added quite a few extra miles and most of the traffic (especially freight) is between Budapest and Beograd (and beyond) and not between Beograd and Szeged. Renewing the direct route makes more sense and for the regional traffic between Szeged and Subotica the secondary line can be used.
This line is not on the Belgrade-Budapest high-speed railline, this is a secondary line connecting Subotica and Serbia with the third largest city in Hungary's Szeged. Operating speed for passenger trains in this railine is 120 km/h but at the moment, maximum speed is not used, but a temporary speed of about 50 - 60 km/h for a number of reasons. The Serbian side has been completely renovated, modernized and electrified but currently, a temporary station is being used in Subotica where there is no electricity due to the works on the high-speed railway, when the reconstruction of the high-speed railway is finished, the speed will increase and new trains are likely to be in use, possible stadler flirts. The Hungarian side is not completely finished, I don't know if their side is fully electrified, they still have to finish their side completely. Another obstacle to speed are border crossings, I do not know how they will be resolved in the future, maybe it will be same as agreed and planed for the high-speed railway (Belgrade - Budapest) to check the documents as on the principle of airports at railway stations in Serbia and Hungary and not at the border crossing.
Do they stamp your passport in Serbia?
Sure they do. Every time on a different page :D
most countries like to put stamps on the same page. Not sure why they doing so on separate pages
By the way when you enter back to Hungary from Serbia do Hungarians also stamp your passport?
@@user-cd9rd7jb2z I guess it is just faster for them, and they don't really care. They just opened the passport and stamped the first page with space.
@@user-cd9rd7jb2z No, they didn't.
Broken toilet handle is not acceptable. Shame.
haha bolje sto nije mogao da udje, bog zna kako bi izgledalo :D