More Than 5 Hours Turned Into 80 Minutes: The Entire Serbian Section Of The Hungary-Serbia Railway Is Open To Traffic!
More Than 5 Hours Turned Into 80 Minutes: The Entire Serbian Section Of The Hungary-Serbia Railway Is Open To Traffic!
The Serbian section of the Hungary-Serbia railway is fully open to traffic! More than 5 hours turned into 80 minutes. China's high-speed rail is the first in Europe. It is an important achievement of the Belt and Road Initiative and carries an average of more than 12.6 million passengers per day.
On October 3, 2025, the Novi Sad to Subotica section of the Hungary-Serbia Railway in Serbia was completed and opened to traffic, marking the opening of the entire Serbian section of the Hungary-Serbia Railway!
The long and bumpy journey that once took more than 5 hours is now compressed into a pleasant journey of less than 80 minutes at the fastest.
The Hungary-Serbia Railway is a double-line electrified passenger and freight high-speed railway connecting Budapest, the capital of Hungary, and Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is a flagship project of cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries. It is the "first order" of China's high-speed railway to enter Europe and is also an important achievement of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road Initiative".
The total length of the line is 341.7 kilometers, of which 183.1 kilometers are in Serbia and have a design speed of 200 kilometers per hour; 158.6 kilometers are in Hungary and have a design speed of 160 kilometers per hour.
In November 2017, construction started on the Belgrade-Stara Pazova section in Serbia.
On March 19, 2022, the 80-kilometer section from Belgrade to Novi Sad in Serbia was put into operation. It has been operating safely for more than three years so far, with an average of 62 passenger trains operating daily, with a maximum of 15,059 passengers in a single day, and a total of more than 12.6 million passengers.
In Serbia, which has a total population of approximately 6.8 million, this equates to almost everyone taking this high-speed train twice.
On July 1, 2022, construction of the border section from Novi Sad to Subotica started.
It is worth mentioning that on November 15, 2024, the EU certification agency Ricardo (Netherlands) issued the final TSI certification for each subsystem of the project to the Nosu section of the Hungary-Serbia Railway, indicating that the Serbian section of the Hungary-Serbia Railway complies with the EU railway interconnection technical specifications.
The Hungary-Serbia Railway is the first project to adopt technical equipment independently developed by China Railway and to pass the EU Technical Specification for Railway Interoperability (TSI) certification.
