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==Recent and future changes==
==Recent and future changes==
An overnight train pair has appeared in the December 2017 timetable pdfs for Skopje to Beograd, as well as a train pair between Skopje and Thessaloniki (Solun in Macedonian). The timetable pdfs also show 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.   


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.
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.

Revision as of 20:47, 15 January 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

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

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.

See also