North Macedonia - General Information: Difference between revisions
Geoff Blyth (talk | contribs) |
Geoff Blyth (talk | contribs) |
||
Line 78: | Line 78: | ||
==Recent and future changes== | ==Recent and future changes== | ||
Work is reported to have resumed in February 2018 on rebuilding the Bitola - Kremenica - Neos Kafkasos (Greece) line, which has been out of use for several years. It was to have reopened by 2014 but the project has been the subject of delays and cancellations. | |||
An overnight Beograd - Skopje - Thessaloniki (Solun in Macedonian) train (and return) appeared in the 10 December 2017 timetable. However, the OSE (Greek) timetable contains a note stating that it is operated between Gevgelija and Thessaloniki by bus on Mondays - Fridays. The timetable also shows international trains running between Skopje and Hani-i-Elezit (Kosovo) for connections to/from Pristina. However, the latter services were always cancelled in the period before the timetable change. | An overnight Beograd - Skopje - Thessaloniki (Solun in Macedonian) train (and return) appeared in the 10 December 2017 timetable. However, the OSE (Greek) timetable contains a note stating that it is operated between Gevgelija and Thessaloniki by bus on Mondays - Fridays. The timetable also shows international trains running between Skopje and Hani-i-Elezit (Kosovo) for connections to/from Pristina. However, the latter services were always cancelled in the period before the timetable change. | ||
Revision as of 15:41, 5 May 2018
Country Name
Macedonia (Makedonija)
National railway system
National Railway Operator
[1] (MŽ) Makedonski Železnici This site refers to a new website at [2]
Language
Macedonian, using Cyrillic script.
Currency
Macedonian Denar (MKD); 1MKD = 100 Deni
UIC code
numeric 65; alpha MK
Timetable
Journey Planner
The Macedonian Railways Journey Planner appears to have have been discontinued. Travellers will need to use the downloadable timetable.
Downloadable Timetable
The 2016/17 timetable pdfs can be found here. This is in Macedonian only, using Cyrillic script.
Note that меѓународен воз по релации (превземи) merely accesses HAFAS, for international services.
A good unofficial timetable in German Linien- und Tabellenfahrpläne was available for 2016-2017, but when the 2017-2018 version appears it should be verified against local information.
Printed Timetable
None known.
Engineering Information
None.
Bus Information
A useful site is BalkanViator
Maps
Printed Maps
- European Railway Atlas: Scandinavia and Eastern Europe by M.G. Ball (1993) (ISBN 0-7110-2072-4)
- European Railway Atlas by M.G. Ball (2008 onwards)
Web-based Maps
- Annex No. 1 of the Network Statement contains some useful maps
- Thorsten Büker's Map of Albania and Macedonia and Map of Skopje.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure Authority
There is no separate Infrastructure Authority in Macedonia.
Network Statement
The 2016-2017 Network Statement (in English) can be downloaded here. The 2017-2018 network statement had not been loaded in December 2017.
Gauge
Standard.
Electrification
25kV 50Hz.
Rule of the road
Right, but the vast majority of the network is single track.
Distances
Table No. 1 in Annex No. 2 of the Network Statement gives distances for each station
Other Railways
None.
Tourist Lines
None.
Metro
None.
Trams
None.
Recent and future changes
Work is reported to have resumed in February 2018 on rebuilding the Bitola - Kremenica - Neos Kafkasos (Greece) line, which has been out of use for several years. It was to have reopened by 2014 but the project has been the subject of delays and cancellations.
An overnight Beograd - Skopje - Thessaloniki (Solun in Macedonian) train (and return) appeared in the 10 December 2017 timetable. However, the OSE (Greek) timetable contains a note stating that it is operated between Gevgelija and Thessaloniki by bus on Mondays - Fridays. The timetable also shows international trains running between Skopje and Hani-i-Elezit (Kosovo) for connections to/from Pristina. However, the latter services were always cancelled in the period before the timetable change.
Services between Niš(ŽS) and Skopje were suspended from 20 October 2016 because of engineering work but reinstated for the summer season from 1 June 2017.
Owing to the migrant crisis, with effect from 21 August 2015, until further notice the Thessaloniki - Idomeni - Gevgelija section of the Thessaloniki - Beograd train has been a coach connection.
This Gevgelija - Idomeni cross-border service into Greece has been intermittently suspended previously, it ceased from 13 February 2011 along with all other border crossings with Greece but then a weekly summer-only service reportedly ran between July and September 2012. Then the Beograd [overnight] - Skopje - Thessaloniki and vv summer only service was reintroduced from 10 May 2014 until as above.
In 2012 the EBRD agreed to provide a €46.4m 15-year loan to fund the rebuilding of the 30.8 km Kumanovo – Beljakovce line, the first phase of a direct rail link between Skopje and Sofia. This included money to help advance the second phase, to extend the line from Beljakovce to Kriva Palanka. The final phase would take the line over the border to Gyueshevo.
Special Notes
None.