The finishing of the rail track works on the 108-kilometer corridor of the Budapest-Belgrade railway line that extends from Novi Sad to Subotica being raged means having a huge progress to the transportation infrastructure within the region. Chinese rail transport company New Railway presented an achievement saying on Global Times, that tests done on completion indicated velocities speeds on the Novi Sad section can reach 200 kilometers per hour. This project will help the railway to be operational only at the end of this year on schedule.
Construction of the Hungarian section of the Budapest-Belgrade railway with the scope of elaborate riddance of line 150 has commenced. When everything is done, this update can be one of the upgrades where the travel time between Belgrade and Budapest can be reduced drastically from now 2 hours and 40 minutes to 2 hours.
Commencement date
The Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić announced hope with the deadline for the construction of Hungarian part where mark the completion of the project in 2025 at the earliest or February-March 2026 latest. Indicatively, during his previous remarks held in October, he also mentioned that the Hungarian chapter should be finalized by at the latest July 2026.
The significance of successfully put into operation by the section of Budapest-Belgrade railroad line connecting Belgrade and Novi Sad, is clearly implied by the number your tourist traffic in its inaugural year. With over 3,000,000 customers passing through this area it has now been made evident its indispensable role for the region’s traffic system. The trains that operates at speeds up to 200 kilometre per hours indicates a stage of efficiency and connectivity which overcame the previous kinds of transportation.
The second anniversary of the Belgrade-Novi Sad high-speed rail line, which was Chinese-built, carries the year of March on the list of the impacts of the infrastructure project. Nearly 7 and a half million passengers have been shifted through Serbia’s two largest cities by this railway during the last year it has been operating. Intercity movement has become much easier with the help of this railway line and the economic relations between regions have deepened a lot.
Scope
As specified by China Railway, the north-south railway Budapest-Belgrade is a double-track electrified railway route that is anticipated to be of length 341.7 kilometres, with 183.1 kilometres being built on the territory of Serbia. With a planned speed of 200 kilometres per hour, the railway system will be capable of traveling at a speed of 200 kilometres per hour. In Hungary, the railroad have the length of 158,6 km with designated velocity of 160 km/h to the maximum. These advancements will be the hallmark of the future and will accelerate transport safety and help the region to connect better together.
Concluding, less travel time for long-distance trains within Hungary, as improvements for suburban passenger services is going on, mean that the region road & rail network are going to be more popular than ever. The timetable update plan to cut the Budapest-Vienna train journey to just 2 hours by 2025-2026 remains another significant breakthrough among the attempts to advance the overall connectivity and mobility levels in the territory. Eventually, these infrastructural endeavors would have created a dynamic wherein transit time and money are but a drops of water in the region’s developmental drive.
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