Country info: Serbia (Srbija)

Rail companies: ZS (Železnice Srbije)

Serbian Rail Network Map 

Currency: 1 euro = app. 110 Serbian dinars (RSD)

Train travel in Serbia: train types, tickets, fares, discounts & other useful info

National Train Service:

Train types in Serbia: Urban (BG Voz), Suburban (Beovoz), Passenger (Putnicki), Express (Brzi) & InterCity trains

• Urban (marked as 'BG' on ZS website) - rail service within boundaries of Belgrade (from Pančevački Most to Batajnica via Beograd Centar, Novi Beograd & Zemun), no seat reservation required
  
• Suburban (marked as 'Beovoz' on ZS website) - commuter service in Belgrade area (lines from Pančevo Vojlovica to Pančevački Most, from Beograd Centar to Mladenovac, from Pančevo Vojlovica to Valjevo), no seat reservation required
  
  
• Passenger (marked as 'PT' on ZS website) – regular passenger trains serving connections all over Serbia, no seat reservation required
• Express (marked as 'B' on ZS website) - fast trains connecting major Serbian destinations, no seat reservation required, but special tariff supplement applies (100 RSD for one way or 160 RSD for return ticket)
  
• InterCity (marked as 'IC' on ZS website) – intercity service on major Serbian lines (from Belgrade to Novi Sad, Subotica, Valjevo, Uzice & Prijepole), seat reservation mandatory (110 RSD) + special tariff supplement applies (200 RSD for one way or 360 RSD for return ticket). Some international trains (like daytime Belgrade to Budapest) in Serbia as well considered to be InterCity while on ZS network
  

Validity of Trains Tickets in Serbia: domestic one way tickets are valid for 1 day, while return tickets valid either during 1 day (for journeys <100 km) or 1 month (journeys >101 km)

Discounts, special offers & ways to save money for passengers traveling in Serbia (ZS):

1. Passengers purchasing return tickets receive 20% discount (both 1^st and 2^nd class)
2. Passengers planning to visit more than one destination in Serbia (for instance during a day trip) can take advantage of the fact that Serbian Railways allow one stopover for any domestic journey done with one way ticket or two stopovers with any return ticket (one stopover during outward & one during return trip). What that means is that passenger having ticket from destination A to destination B can travel from A to C with stopover in destination B, thus instead of two separate tickets purchase one through ticket and as result save some money. Such trick works perfectly for instance for somebody planning to visit Novi Sad & Subotica while starting in Belgrade
   
   
3. Passengers planning multiple journeys within Serbia can also keep in mind possibility to use Balkan Flexi Pass (more about it below in the International section)
   

International Train Service:

a) Regular discounts

• 60% off SCIC-NRT/TCV price for any return tickets from Serbia to Hungary (or 30% for one way tickets)
  
•  SET tariff (valid for rail journeys between the members of South-East Europe Railways Group (SERG), which are the railway companies of Albania, Bulgaria, FYR of Macedonia, Greece, Romania, Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro & Republika Srpska (ZRS)

Passengers can also take advantage of special Multilateral Agreement between a number of Central European railway companies. It allows to get 30% (or 40% for youth<26 years old and 50% for groups more than 6 passengers) discount from regular SCIC-NRT/TCV tariff fare on any return ticket purchased for connections between countries participants of the tariff Agreement (Czech Republic (CD), Hungary (MAV), Romania (CFR), Poland (PKP), Slovakia (ZSSK), Bulgaria (BDZ), Serbia (ZS) and FYR Macedonia (MZ)

b) Special offers (SparSchiene)

Ticket offers with limited number of tickets per each departure (purchase in advance required):

• 'Ljubljana Specijal' – one way tickets for 25 euro (direct train only, can be bought not later than 3 days before departure)
• 'Bar Specijal' - one way tickets on relations from Belgrade to Bar & from Bar to Belgrade for 9,9 euro (seats), 14,9 euro (6 berth couchettes) or 24,9 euro (3 bed sleepers)

Ticket offers with unlimited number of tickets per each departure :

• 'Munich Special' – return ticket from Belgrade to Munich (via Sid-Croatia – 153.6 euro or via Subotica-Hungary – 154 euro)
• 'Wien Special' – return ticket from Belgrade to Vienna via Hungary (70 euro in 2nd class or 105 euro in 1st class)
  
• 'Bucuresti Special' - return ticket from Belgrade to Bucharest (48 euro)
  
• 'Budapest Special' – one way ticket from Belgrade to Budapest (15 euro) & return (26 euro)
  
• 'Macedonia Special' - return ticket from Belgrade to Skopje (32,6) or Niš-Skopje-Niš (15,7 euro)
  
• 'Sarajevo Special' - one way ticket from Belgrade to Sarajevo (16,8 euro) or return (31 euro)
• 'Doboj Special' - one way ticket from Belgrade to Doboj (11,3 euro) or return (21 euro)

c) CityStars

Citystar tickets available from Serbia to Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Russia and Ukraine 

One of the major deals for both domestic and international train travel in the region is Balkan Flexi Pass (special pass offer for journeys in the area of south-east Europe). Balkan Flexi Pass (validity period of one month) allows unlimited number of rail journeys during of 5, 7, 10 or 15 days on rail networks of Bulgaria, FYR of Macedonia, Greece, Romania, Turkey, Serbia & Montenegro

Balkan Flexi Pass prices (2^nd class):

How to Buy Train Tickets in Serbia:

National (domestic) and some international (from Serbia to Montenegro) tickets & reservations can be purchased online via ZS website – www.srbrail.rs

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