The marvelous Yugoslavian Blue Train

You have listened to speak of the Blue Train? It is a matter of the old middle of transportation that was used to utilizing the dead president of Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito. The train passed inactive a period of 20 years, but after this time, has passed again to initiate its careers. Now, the travelers can enjoy the charm and the magic in the elegant train, since the company “Zet turist”, is offering travel commercial aboard its freight cars of blue color.


The first trip that the blue train carried out after passing a period of paralysis, transferred 140 passengers in a journey that was from Belgrade to the spa servio of Vmjacka Banja, to approximately some 190 kilometers to the south of the capital. According to the representatives of Zel Turist, the norms of protocol of the composed, blue train of nine tourist freight cars, they are respected just as if Tito was travelling in them. As it is to be supposed, the blue train receives the name of the color of its freight cars and in the past, was used to belonging to the Railroads of Serbia and Montenegro.



Do not think that the blue train has been maintained such as, therefore they have had that to do a series of adaptations so that be favorable for the tourism. We recall that in the past, only was utilized by Tito, who carried out meetings with more than 60 statesmen of all parts of the world. In the blue train, still we can find some of the paintings that were used to liking to Tito; nevertheless, the majority of them and the works of more value, they have been transferred to the museums. The first trip of the history that carried out the train, was in 1947, when the trains were you considered as the surest media of transportation for the marshal Tito. Then, it passed to to be renewed and new freight cars in the factories of Yugoslavia were built.



According to the representatives of the business Zel Turist, lueo to transport the coffin of Tito, the train passed to circulate two times more, to carry out the displacement of foreign statesmen that had been visiting the country. Currently, the passengers and citizens can travel just as did it Tito in its times; enjoying a folk program of farewell and a similar one of welcome, to the moment of the arrival to the spa. The best of all was that before the departure of the train, an actor disguised of Tito received girls hands roses branches that lit up you brought folk.