3 DAY TOUR €459* ADD ON TO THE FEDECRAIL
6 DAY TOUR €695* CONFERENCE AT BUDAPEST

*see prices & supplements on booking form

 

Preserved steam – Working steam – Old style industry – Rare museum items – Old tramways

1st day, 29 April 2010
• 08.00 departure by bus from Szeged to Belgrade
• 14.00 arrive at Belgrade railway station
• join the ex-Presidential Blue train for trip to Branesko Polje or Romantika with an electric loco
• lunch in the train
• transfer to the hotel at Mokra Gora
• dinner at Mokra Gora
• overnight

 

2nd day, 30 April 2010
• breakfast
• special train from Mokra Gora to Sargan Vitasi and return with steam locomotive 83-173
• lunch at Jatare station
• continue of the program with 83-173
• dinner at Mokra Gora
• overnight at Mokra Gora

 

3rd day, 01 May 2010
• breakfast
• special train from Mokra Gora to Dobrun, Bosnia with 0-8-2 steam locomotive 83-173
• transfer from Dobrun to Visegrad by bus
• lunch at Visegrad
• transfer to Dobrun by bus
• special train Dobrun - Mokra Gora border crossing, police and customs control in the train
• You MUST have your full PASSPORT for this trip.

For participants ending the tour and returning to Belgrade
• transfer from Mokra Gora to Belgrade
• checkk in to the hotel in Belgrade, for Bed & Breakfast overnight stay and end the tour

For those staying on the tour through Bosnia
• transfer by bus from Mokra Gora to Tuzla
• check in the Hotel Tuzla
• dinner at the hotel
• overnight at Hotel Tuzla

 

4th day, 02 May 2010
• breakfast
• transfer from hotel to Tuzla railway station
• special train with steam loco class 33, 2-10-0 Kreigslok to Banovci 29km with photostops
• special train with narrow gauge steam loco 55-99 (Hungarian 0-8-OT) on Banovici – Grivice line
• lunch at Banovici
• transfer by bus to Tuzla
• dinner at Hotel Tuzla
• overnight at Hotel Tuzla

 

5th day, 03 May 2010
• breakfast
• transfer by bus to Bukunje depot the last standard gauge steam depot in regular use
• transfer by bus to Banovici
• special train on narrow gauge line Banovici – Grivice – Turia and back with steam loco 83-158 (Austro-Hungarian 760mm gauge 0-8-2)
• lunch at Banovici
• visiting narrow gauge depot at Banovici, taking pictures of working standard gauge shunters class 62 (Ex USA TC) or Skoda 19-12
• transfer to Sarajevo
• dinner at hotel
• overnight in Holiday Inn in Sarajevo

 

6th day, 04 May 2010
• breakfast
• visit to Sarajevo Tramway depot
• departure by bus to Belgrade
• lunch at Mokra Gora
• arrival and check-in, Hotel Moskva, Belgrade

 

7th day, 05 May 2010
• breakfast
• end of tour
• go to airport for flight by own arrangements*
*a taxi ride to the airport is a good, economic option

 

Advice on Booking your flights
You will probably have flown in to the conference in Budapest. So you can make arrangements to fly back from Belgrade (unless you have other ideas). The following airlines serve Belgrade Tesla Airport: BA, German Wings, Lufthansa. Look for yourself on http://www.beg.aero/code/navigate.php!ld=54 (No Ryanair, EasyJet and Wizz).

 

Something about what you’ll see
Serbia is not known railfan destination, yet there’s lots to see. The highlights are: Mokra Gora, the famous 760mm gauge spirals up to Sargan; crossing the frontier into Bosnia by narrow gauge train; te remarkable narrow gauge railway museum at Pozega, with its Mallet and pechot-Bourdon, French double-Fairlie; the Yugoslav, ex-Presidential Blue Train, on which we shall travel, and the large numbers of working steam locomotives on standard gauge that we shall see- the last steam depot in Europe with 4 working Kreigsloks, 4, 0-6-OT USTC locos, with real steam shunting at Banovici and KREKA colliery. This is a trip that really packs fascinating and rare items in to it – and of course some of those steam locomotives exist on a wing and a prayer. So if you want to see this stuff – now’s your chance.

 

Price and Arrangements
3 Day Tour €459 with single supplement of €46 per person
6 Day Tour €695 with single supplement of €89 per person

 

Fill in the BOOKING FORM and email it to Astra Travel: astra-janez@sbb.rs
The contact there is Mr. Janez Smole, office: +381 11 26 22 104 or +381 11 26 22 105 mobile: +381 64 1773 667
Mr. Smole is responsible for tour arrangements. Astra Travel d.o.o., Kneginje Ljubice 26, Beograd 11000, Srbija
Railtour details: Mr. Zoran Veresic, mobile: +381 63 573 000
The last date for booking is Sunday, 04th of April 2010.

The tour begins after the night in Szeged 28th April 2010. You should arrange for this night in the hotel when you book your FEDECRAIL Conference at Belgrade.

Note: In the Tuzla Hotel – refurbished rooms are single or double rooms only, twin rooms are not refurbished. From the end of the tour in Belgrade, further arrangements are yours to make. Arrange your own flights home please.