Tito's Blue Train (Serbian: Plavi voz) is a luxury train, once used by Josip Broz Tito, while president of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It is now operated as a tourist attraction on the 476-kilometre (296 mi) Belgrade-Bar railway, between Belgrade, capital of Serbia, and Bar, a coastal town in Montenegro.
Video Tito's Blue Train
Tito's era
Among those who travelled on the train as Tito's guests were Haile Selassie, François Mitterrand, Yasser Arafat, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sukarno and, in October 1972, Queen Elizabeth II.
Locomotives
The first dedicated locomotives for the Blue Train were three repainted J? class 11 4-8-0, one of them is now preserved in Belgrade. They were replaced by three Krauss-Maffei ML 2200 C'C' purchased from West Germany. These engines were based on DB Class V 200.
In 1978, four Electro-Motive Diesel, EMD JT22CW-2 locomotives, designated as ?S series 666, were acquired by Yugoslav Railways for use with the train, hence their all-blue livery. Since the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the locomotives have been used to haul freight and passenger trains. All four are no longer operational and stored awaiting overhaul. They were named after World War II battles:
- 001 - Dinara
- 002 - Kozara
- 003 - Sutjeska
- 004 - Neretva
Maps Tito's Blue Train
References
External links
- Video of the train's interior
- Pictures
- Description of a tourist journey
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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