Modern Orient Express 1: Beograd - Istanbul, Nov 3-4 2008

[michonynmp]

Very nice clip! :) From 1:43 to 2:26 is Niš (Serbia) - the best city in the World! heheheh!

[directorient]

Nice video! I travelled three times on this route, as it was still possible to travel directly from Western Europe to Istanbul without changing train or car.

I travelled by Istanbul Express train, Munchen-Istanbul, two times on a bulgarian couchette car and one time on a turkish sleeping car.

[johnwmhodgson]

fantastic video v evocative of lurching thro balkans by train take lots of bread sheeps cheese slivovica

[TheHiroshima75]

How much did cost the ticket?

[TheHiroshima75]

Cam cat aproximativ o costat biletul?

[PiocaV63150]

impressive :O

[Kosovaro57]

Survoje al oriento, la trajno 347 veturadas de Vieno al Istambulo tra Budapeŝto, Beogrado kaj Sofio. Belajn pejzaĝojn oni povas miri. Mi jam spertis tiun vojaĝon inter Sofio kaj Vieno. Post Istambulo oni povas veturi trajne al Teherano. Eble mi iros...

[Kosovaro57]

Survoje al Oriento, la trajno 347 Vieno, Budapeŝto, Beogrado, Sofio, Istambulo veturadas en Serbio, Bulgario kaj Turkio. Poste Istambulo oni povas veturi trajne al Teherano...Iam mi iros...Belajn pejzaĝojn oni miras...

[invimk]

jao braco srbi pa gde vi zivite.....voli vas makedonija

[light222333]

cool

[Beolex]

Awesome!

[zaho87]

Hope it was a good trip. I know that our locomotives and most wagons are old, but still I like to travel with a train in Bulgaria a lot. I find it addictive, but it is my personal opinion.

[BboyDRuLeZz]

Dimitrovgrad is not in serbia lol it is in bulgaria

[ronik24]

Hi,

There are at least two Dimitrovgrads, one is the Serbian border station to Bulgaria, the other is a town in Bulgaria. This train passes both of them! ;-)

Greetings,

Roni

[train461]

@BboyDRuLeZz

you noob, Dimitrovgrad = SERBIA!

[ronik24]

@train461

As mentioned, there are two Dimitrovgrads along the route, one in Serbia, one in Bulgaria.

[train461]

@ronik24

yes but he said that is only Bulgaria!

[Indubitabil02]

Super video!**5**

[trenmania]

i like TCDD trains =))

[trenoking]

Great job putting it all together. Thanks a lot, I really enjoyed it.

[dornaimobiliare]

nice ;)

[maljokovic]

wonderful :)

[michonynmp]

cool

[robrigney]

Beograd Srbija!!!

[vampirelilly97]

very very very COOL video :)

[andybowe]

It looks like the Orient express still runs from Boegrade Belgrade Serbia to Turkey wow and what kind of engines pull the trains? what engine models?

[ronik24]

Hi,

It's not called Orient Express, it's the Balkan Express D 491. It's pulled by ZS 441/444 electric to Nis, 661/644 (GM) diesel to Dimitrovgrad (Serbia), BDZ 4x electric to Dimitrovgrad (Bulgaria), 07 (Ludmilla) diesel to Kapikule (Turkey) and TCDD E 52500 electric to Istanbul Sirkeci.

Greetings,

Roni

[korkusuz1905]

Hello ronik24 :),

The film is best and wonderfuull.Thanks video for you.

İstanbul train's a old.But istanbul people likes train :)

ı am sorry ı dont speak english..

[cortexedge]

Great film!

I bet you're using a Panasonic camcorder :D

[ronik24]

Hi,

Thanks! :-)

Nope, it's actually a digital photo camera. Canon Powershot S5 IS.

Greetings,

Roni

[cortexedge]

Wow :O

stereo sound,optical zoom....great image quality...:D

[BaditaStefan]

5 stars from ROMANIA, look my videos to.

[dashloc]

Hi,

How many days for a trip like this ?

[ronik24]

Hi!

Vienna - Istanbul is 2 nights / 1 day.

Greetings,

Roni

[dashloc]

Ok, thank you Roni :)

[paganviodio]

the railways in balkan are very bad- the trains cannot speed upto 50 miles. if it were good- the trip could be a matter of some 20 hours or so. i mean sofia-istanbul is some 350 miles. the train needs for that the whole night. by a car troughout you´ ll make it within 6-7hours.

[edmalbo]

its still fun to travel by train :)

[Travel3]

Excellent.

[NThusiast]

Klasse Reise. habe ich 2003 auch gemacht! Ich bin aber andersrum gefahren, und zwar erst Istanbul-Sofia und dann Sofia-Belgrad.

An der türkisch-bulgarischen Grenze haben dann ein paar Teppichschmuggler den Schlafwagenschaffner bestochen. Der Zug hat am ersten Bahnhof hinter der Grenze gehalten und die haben dann die Teppiche durchs Fenster rausgeschmissen. In Istanbul hatten die ein ganzes Abteil mit Teppichen vollgestopft ...

[dergrossen]

Yep..The Black Market did not end in 1945..wonderful carpets..very atmospheric!!

[applecounty]

Does this 'modern' Orient Express follow the original route? Interesting shots of loco scrap lines - any information on these loco's?

[ronik24]

Hi,

Well, of course it's just the title of the video, but yes, some variations of the Orient Express took this route. The steamers at Belgrade are nostalgic locos and still in use, so no scrap line, the diesel locos at Lapovo are class 641 shunters built in Hungary.

Greetings,

Roni

[applecounty]

Many thanks. I really must read up on the history of the OE from concept to the end, before the glitz of the steam hauled rich persons version of today.