4K CABVIEW Zvornik - Beograd -- Winter ride from prairies to evening city lights

Winter train ride Zvornik - Šabac - Ruma - Beograd by train 622 (Zvornik - Beograd Centar).

This train ride starts at Mali Zvornik railway station. From Donja Borina the ride switches to main railway line from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Serbia. Brasina railway station is main border railway station at Serbian part of this major freight railway link between Serbia and Bosnia. Railway line Zvornik - Brasina - Šabac - Ruma, with its extension Zvornik - Živinice, across the river Drina, is the main freight railway connection to Bosnia and its industry parts. Between Šabac and Ruma line crosses a large old steel bridge over the Sava river, where it cross from Mačva district to Srem. Then, in Ruma, this non-electrified single track line connects to the main electrified double track line Beograd - Šid - Zagreb. From Stara Pazova the ride continues at new Beograd - Novi Sad main railway line.

The journey begins in nature, far from large urban areas. It reaches Šabac and Ruma, where the train has to change its direction. Then the low mist of winter's eve appears and the sunny day gradually calms down. At the entrance to the urban parts of Belgrade, the evening winter sky changes into beautiful purple and blue tones, which is an especially photogenic scene during this ride. There was not too much snow, but it was quite enough snow to whiten the track and to enable the appearance of beautiful scenic and landscape tones in the evening for greater enjoyment of the ride.

There are numerous malfunctioning track signals along the line and there are numerous scenes of unsafe railroad crossings during this journey. Some are unsafe because car drivers cross the track in front of a moving train, and on some, crossing devices, signals and ramps are not working, or breakdown.

All important scenes, as well as basic data about the train movement, location, speed and elevation are written and shown during the video.

Date of recording:
January 2024.