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The saying "Slow but steady wins the race" maybe is the simplest explanation of China's slow entry into the North Macedonia's railroad sector in the past several years. From the takeover of the Piraeus Port in neighboring Greece, through the purchase of locomotives and multiple-unit trains for "RNM Railways - Transport" Public enterprise to the increased volumes of cargo...

The RNM's Railroad company has prepared the timetable for the passenger trains in 2021 which will enter into force on the 13th of December this year. Regarding the domestic railway traffic, there won't be any significant changes in the number of trains that will be departing towards Tabanovce, Veles, Bitola, Gevgelija, Kochani, and Kichevo, while concerning the international transportation,...

The Day of the Macedonian Railway Workers was symbolically celebrated this year on the 9th of April. On this day in 1873, the railway traffic was first established between Skopje and Thessaloniki. 147 years since the beginning of the railways in this country, Macedonia, together with Albania, are the last countries in Europe that have no location where this...

Instead of using trains and buses as it is the case in Europe, Macedonia is a rare example where the taxi transportation is slowly becoming the dominant means of transportation in the intercity trips. The data provided by the State Statistics Bureau for 2019 shows that trains and buses are becoming less attractive for the passengers and therefore the...

Three days since the express train transiting between Skopje and Prishtina, the Kosovar company Trainkos stopped the train due to the situation with the coronavirus COVID 19, inform North Macedonia's Railways - Transport. The stopping of the train service between Macedonia and Kosovo is indefinitely. After a long period, this railway line began working again on the...

The North Macedonian Railways - Transport, will resume the service of the Skopje-Prishtina-Skopje train, informs the railway company. The timetable hasn't been changed and the train will deart from Skopje at 16:10 h and from Prishtina it will depart at 7:10. The railway company informs that this train wasn't operational due to certain technical problems. The express train between...

The Ministry of Transport and Communications has put the railway project that connects from the Transport center with the International Airport Skopje along with several projects for which it will apply for support from the EU and other international financial institutions. The ministry has confirmed for Meta.mk that during the second half of 2019 it has submitted at...

The Macedonian and Turkish Railway companies are in the middle of talks about the possibility of introducing a tourist train from Istanbul via Thessaloniki to Skopje. As informs the Macedonian railways, the director Orhan Murtezani was having talks on this subject during the meeting with the General Manager of Turkish Railways (TCDD) that took place by the end...

The Serbian Ministry of Constructions, Traffic and Infrastructure is expecting the new joint railway border crossing between Macedonia and Serbia to be built by the end of 2021. In a statement for Meta.mk, the Ministry in Belgrade stressed that the Managing Board of the Investment Framework for Western Balkans has yet to provide a final decision in December for...

Macedonia and Kosovo have signed an agreement for the introduction of joint border controls concerning the railway traffic since 2011, but until today a joint building of the Customs services, police, and inspection services haven't been built. As was Meta Agency informed by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, this building was supposed to be built by the Kosovar...

Macedonia is one of the rare European countries where international railway traffic is about to go extinct. Apart from the lack of express trains towards the bigger cities during the entire year, there are no trains for citizens towards Serbia, Greece, and Kosovo. The citizens of border cities are forced to pay for bus tickets which are more expensive...

The National Program for Railway Infrastructure in the period between 2019 - 2021 doesn't have the project for setting a railway line from the Skopje railway station to the International Airport Skopje evidenced. The Ministry of Transportation and Communications has included this project in its National Transportation Strategy 2018-2020, but for its realization, a feasibility study will have to...

RSM-Transport Railways, from June 15 are re-introducing the express train from Skopje to Belgrade and to Thessaloniki. The train from the Macedonian capital to Thessaloniki will leave every day at 4.45 am, and arrive at the Thessaloniki train station at 9.33 am, from where it will be possible to catch a connection train to the resorts in Litochoro, Leptokaria...

The expressions of immense happiness when we await someone close, the goodbyes said through tears with those that are traveling far away, sending people in the army or to studies abroad, the kisses, the hugs, the laughter, cannot be seen anymore at the platforms of one of the biggest railway stations in the Balkans. At the Railway station in Skopje,...