Neues und Altes aus dem "ehemaligen Staat" (Jugoslawien)
(German text below/Deutsche Fassung unten) In Serbia, 15 people have died in the collapse of the railway station platform in Novi Sad. The cause was probably sloppiness on the part of the construction company and the construction supervision. And corruption may also have been involved in the awarding and execution of the contract. This is... Continue Reading →
The tragedy at Novi Sad railway station in Vojvodina, where 14 people lost their lives when a canopy collapsed on 1 November, quickly disappeared from the foreign media. Serbia, on the other hand, is still preoccupied with this disaster. People are not only mourning the deaths and serious injuries (of the seventeen people who were... Continue Reading →
Recently, the new express train line from Belgrade to Novi Sad was inaugurated in Serbia. It now takes just over 30 minutes to travel the 80-kilometre route. Impressive. Nevertheless, a resident of Novi Sad, which is abbreviated NS, commented on a report about it on the internet: "We are not interested in that. We want... Continue Reading →
Regular visitors to this website already know: we have a soft spot for ex-Yugoslavian railways and now and then stamps play a role here. Now we have found a website which that combines both, stamps with steam and other locomotives. On this site you can click through "the shuffelin madness of locomotive stamps"But what do... Continue Reading →
Regelmäßige Besucher dieser Website wissen es schon: Wir haben ein Faible für ex-jugoslawische Eisenbahnen und ab und an spielen hier auch Briefmarken eine Rolle. Nun haben wir eine Website gefunden, die beides bietet, nämlich Briefmarken mit Dampf- und anderen Loks, kombiniert. Hier kann man sich seitensweise durch „Lok-Marken“ klicken. Was aber haben die jungen Menschen... Continue Reading →
Normally trainspotting means that you wait at a certain place and then trains come and you take pictures of them. Our trainspotting in Bosnia and Herzegovina was different as we ourselves moved around a lot, while the locomotives, carriages and trains we were chasing remained motionless - as they did for decades. Starting point is... Continue Reading →
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