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hello :D
i was hoping someone could help me with understanding the train system, the website doesnt explain it much..
on the network map, what do the thinner lines represent? train lines or bus connections?
http://www.yurail.co.yu/karta1.html
if you open up the map, youll see at around the number "72" area its a thinner line, and areas on the thinner line are not in the list when looking for timetables.

What id really like to know is, how to get from Despotovac (around "72") to Beograd, or at least from Despotovac to Markovac

thank you very much :)

You can get from Despotovac to Beograd by train - but only twice monthly. Normally it's a freight-only line, but twice monthly there is a very special tain called "Romantika". The web site is in Serbian only, I recently posted the deal. Otherwise Pupulainen is right - freight only line.

http://deals.virtualtourist.com/1/viewDeal-16557-0-1--Train-1-World-viewDeal.html?wosid=uajuNg0V5KvH4VTbDj2cH0

Sorry, once monthly. There is one train June 23, one July 8, one August 5.
It's a steam-pulled historic train, $15 round-trip in forst class, $7.5 one-way. Third class is $10/$5

thanks so much for clearing that up!
i was wondering why they had Despotovac etc on the map when there was no train!

im from the area, living overseas, just looking for ways to get around considering i wont have a car while im there :(

Same here (but I am actually halfways from Hungary, halfways from Russia). I was there long ago and that time we got the ticket till either Lapovo or till Svetozarevo, than went by bus. Now looking at the map I could not find Svetozarevo. Than Pupulainen suggested I should not go till Lapovo because it's in the middle of nowhere, rather to Jagodina. The next I did wonder, why Pupulainen is sending me to a border town between Poland and Ukraina - than I realized, Svetozarevo is always used to be Jagodina, just not during the time we were there.

Busses are many - look in a previous forum somewhare, we found quite a bit. But with the train there are two cases:

a) you reach Jagodina
b) someone enters your compartemt and sez: "Pani, paszporta prosim" (that means, it's a WRONG Jagodina) LOL

Here are the buses:

http://www.bas.co.yu/basweb_eng/redvoznje.asp

> jel govoris srpski?

Me: a little (as you know) - but you do NOT want to know what kind of stuff I can say the best... BTW: I have some funny stories from my circle (just have to run, there are a few really hilarious)

my family is from Plazane, though i was born in Australia (Sydney).. where are yours from??

I do speak serb, not perfectly though... i can understand absolutely everything, just talking is a little harder, and my grammar isnt the best, but its good enough considering i only speak it once in a few years haha :D

i know i can have family drive me around, but i really dont want to bother them, i dont plan to stay at home much while im there! im going with a friend, one month in serbia, one month in greece and cyprus, and a week or so in switzerland :D