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Belgrade (Beograd)
tramway, unfinished metro

Belgrade's 35 km tramway system is still recovering from the war. Most of it's current rolling stock are either from Basel or old Tatras. The city is in the process of upgrading the trams to light rail standards.Thirty new trams from CAF are on order.

Belgrade's commuter railway, the 5 line Beovoz City Railway, includes three underground stations in the city center and 25 km of underground track. And, according to this site, Belgrade also has an opulent subway station for a line that was never built. The station was used as a shelter in the 1999 war. However, other sources say it's the Vukov Spomenik station on the BCR and that no such metro station was ever built. The confusion comes because, according to one Belgrade metrophile, the station has two levels, one of which was built for a metro and currently remains sealed. The the other level accomodates the Beovoz commuter trains.

Plans for a 5 line metro in the 1980's never materialized. Most discussion of a light rail system used the old metro plans to draw the approximate lines of service.

In April 2004, it was reported that a contract was signed between Spanish consulting firm INECO and the city of Belgrade to study a proposed underground-surface LRT. The first segment, known as the "Pink Line" (since it would in part serve the city's prostitutes), or Zemun - Ustanicka, would be 11.6 km long with 2 km underground. It would start at Ustanicka Ulica (Ustanicka street) and
Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra (King Aleksandar`s Boulevard, where there is currently a tramway terminal for lines 5,6,7 and 14.

The line would go via Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra to Vukov spomenik (Vuk`s Monument). From Vukov spomenik, Skupstina Srbije i Crne Gore (Parlament of Serbia and Montenegro), Trg Republike and Pop Lukina Ulica, it would go underground through to Pop Lukina Ulica, where it would exit the tunnel and serve Brankov most (Branko`s Bridge), Bulevar Mihajla Pupina to Zemun. Two more lines, the green and orange lines, would be completed in 2012 and 2015.

Belgrade Light Metro Home Page
Belgrade LRT plans
ERS photos
ELTRAN - Yugoslav light rail proponent group, deals with Belgrade and Montenegro
Photo from Gordon Rushton
City Public Transport Company - Official Home Page
Beovoz City Railway - Official Home Page
Another Beovoz home page
Article about the Belgrade subway (actually underground stops on a commuter railway)
More tram photos
Cool tram photo
Belgrade Railway Friends
January 2004 invitation to bid on preliminary LRT engineering
Beograd light rail plans with map
There IS NO METRO in Beograd!

   

Inside a Belgrade commuter subway car