Serbia has the BEST train in the Balkans - here’s why! 

This project is a part of China's Belt and Road initiatives. Long live Serbia and China and may both countries enjoy infinite years of fruitful, prosperous, healthy, happy and harmonious peaceful partnership. ❤

A line from Budapest via Novi Sad, Belgrade, Niš to Sofia operated by COKO would be really interesting and should be double-tracked

Greetings from Romania to our brothers❤

I was in Serbia in August 2022 and took this train from Belgrade to Novi Sad and back. Wow all I can say is WOW. Impressive. Serbia has come so far and still fights hard to recover from everything that happened in its past. I was so pleasantly surprised and I can't say enough nice things about the people who are so welcoming and have lots of good food! Keep it up Serbia, from Denmark with love ♥

Srbija strong! Greetings from Poland

As a Croatian I have to say this is very impressive and we would be mad not to build a line ourselves from Zagreb through Slavonia and then across the border to connect on this line too, it would be great for both our economies. Bravo Serbia.

Respect Serbia, they are an example for Romania

I am from Bulgaria and I am really jealous of the progress our neighbours are doing. Keep it in this way Serbia. I hope our stupid politicians in Bulgaria start improving our railways as well.

God, I miss Serbia. Especially the people.

BRAVO SERBIA.Greets from Bulgaria.Amaizing.This is how one balkan country can do it so well and be example for any other!

Greetings to our Serbian brothers... Love from the people(not the untrusted politicians) of Greece and Cyprus❤❤❤❤❤

As a local from Belgrade, it's good to see foreign people making nice videos about our country. Keep the content good my guy !

Just beautiful! Regards to Serbia!

Thanks for putting Serbia in a positive spotlight.

As someone from Croatia, I gotta say I'm jealous. Over here we can only dream about such a service.

I rode on the Lao-China railway from Yunnan, China to Vientiane, Lao in March this year. I am looking forward to visiting both Serbia and Hungary in 2025 upon the completion of the Budapest-Belgrade railway. It will be fun to sightseeing both countries riding on this fast train.

I really need to learn more about Serbia

I did a round trip from Belgrade in October 2022. Thoroughly impressed and both trains were nearly full in second class. If I recall, rt was less than $6. It seems the public is loving these trains. Now if they can just connect to Subotica and Nis within the next three years!

I have been to Serbia last summer, really impressive how County is developing. Never seen so many construction sites and infrastructure projects at once anywhere. Keep it up neighbours! 👍

Taste and Quality of food and basic food products and produce in Serbia is outstanding! never ben on this train though

Рад что у братьев Сербов есть хороший транспорт и я уверен что он станет такой везде, в том числе в Косово)

We travelled with this service from Novi Sad to Belgrade last year. It was a really agreeable surprise. We could hardly finish our beers (served in the train) before we arrived in Belgrade. I can't wait for the extension of the line to Hungary and Bulgaria.

I hope this year I can visit Serbia and meet this super friendly und kind people! Greetings from Germany 💜💜💜

I have used this train just 2 weeks ago. And it was one of the best comfortable trips in my life 🙂

I was born in Novi-Sad in 1963 I live in Québec , Canada Must go back and visit , before getting to old. Great video. Thanks

I took the train to Novi Sad after watching your vid, and I have to admit, they really didn't screw up on this one. Comfort, speed, service... All there. Now, as everyone is pining, if only that track from NS to Budapest were to complete asap, I won't have to trouble myself with buses or van transports between Belgrade and Budapest anymore.

serbia…most beautiful people and culture on planet earth!

Thanks for the video, great job Serbia! I don't even dream about such service in Romania any time soon. Can't wait to visit Novi Sad! (excited about the metal and punk scene there, wonderful, talented people!)

Very nice video. Thank u for showing this, i am happy for my old country, they have come a long way and without the help from EU which Croatia and Slovenia get. I m proud of you my Serbian people.

I love ❤️ Serbia 🇷🇸

I am from Serbia and I am really grateful of your really great review towards my country's СОКО train.

Ово је почетак. Надајмо се даљим мрежама!❤️❤️❤️🇷🇸

I took the SOKO this march and visited novi sad for a day. Very pleasant trip, and both rides were punctual.

Сербия👍👍👍Привет из России

i am half serbian and jesus... i'm in love with it

Budapest - Belgrade will be interesting!

Wonderful 💪💪💪I am Cristian from Romania.

Serbia is just beautiful especially the people!

I'm glad you took a train in my country! You're always welcome to come back to Srbija❣

Best train in the region, best video about it! Awesome job, thank you!

Very tidy, modern and should be effective. Go Serbia go 😊

Can’t wait for the completion of the line to Budapest

I am from Serbia and I am happy to hear u say nice things Hope more ppl come to our country, its really nice

Love Serbia from Russia 🇷🇺. We are brothers

Volim Srbiju , SVAKO DOBRO ZA SRBIJU I SRBSKI NAROD !!

Excellent video with a high quality of production. Volim te Srbija!

This is good information as im traveling to serbia in August

He didn’t even mention who built the railway haha. Chinese perfection.

So nice to see how well Serbia is developing, love from China Hong Kong.

Tried it today for the first time. Great experience!!!

Nice short high speed trip! Certainly a step forward for Serbian Railways!

The friendship between China and Serbia lasts forever.❤❤

It's good to note that the train project is cooperation between China and Central and the Hungary-Serbia Railway is part of China Belt and Road initiative

i am really impressed. Good job , all the best

Bravo Serbia from a Greek Amazing Railroads and Train stations I live in Germany not similar with you here is dirt and smell the standards.

Ahhh finally a review on the SOKO! Big thumbs up from Novi Sad! Hopefully other nations in the balkans will be able to achieve high speed rail!

Bravo Serbia

Beautiful! The video is amazing, too. Now, if they could only make this a standard all across Serbia...

Mad props to you for pronouncing some of these tricky Serbian titulars - thank you and how many languages do you personally speak?

I still didn't travel on this train, but everything you said about... well, everything - is true! Your video is great, good job! And comment section is full of unusually positive comments on Serbs and Serbia! Nice!

I don't know about Soko, but your comments, video and explanations are so nice, interesting, useful and professional. 10 out of 10.

You're not bad with pronouncing these serbian words, it was actually pretty decent :)

When Belgrade Budapest line starts, there will be no border controls, instead of that you will come a bit earlier to railway station to walk through security and passport check. Like at airports.

Thank you very much for an objective description of the first high speed railway in Serbia. The second section, from Novi Sad to Subotica is about to be put in operation within this year. We do hope you will come back to see it, as well as the future section from Belgrade to Nis and further.

Greetings from Novi Sad! Glad you visited SOKO, It's so good to see popular you tubers review the train!

Old blue soviet trains from 1980s are actually perfectly capable of doing 120kph(80mph). Its the tracks that are the problem

Srbija ima puno urednije, bolje i ljepše kolodvore tj ova dva nego recimo Hrvatska (Zagrebački je sramota, a splitski je ruglo kao Riječki). Novi Sad woooow predivan kolodvor, zaista impresivno izdanje..... Beograd ima novi a sve novo je i lijepo.... Srbija je Amerika za Hrvatsku po ovome što smo vidjeli Dobro moramo realno reći da su dva grada jako blizu jednom drugom, oduvijek dobro povezani i to im najbolja infrastruktura u zemlji i jedina zasada ali opet impresivan dojam

Underrated country ❤

I am very glad that you enjoyed your trip. It would be nice to see more of your videos. 🇷🇸

Serbia always kinda intrigued me due to it having one language but two writing systems used interchangeably that share similar characters as well. I know Japan's even crazier with three writing systems but at least Serbia chose writing systems that doesn't resemble noodles :P

Finally Serbia have new and fast trains

In 2024 will start operating 18 new electric trains latest generation, announced the director of "Srbijavoz"

Really loved the ride. It was my first ever time rideing the train and it was awesome

Super video! Nice train ride! Good work! Thumbs Up All the best from Dublin Andrew

As a Serb I feel proud on Soko train. (And pissed off at the same time for the closing off the historical Main Railway station on Savski Venac because of this... Golf hole. ⛳)

One can't trust his eyes. Approaching the Novi Sad Station one feels like in front of a university and inside like on an airport.

It would be interesting to travel all way from Munich or Prague, via Budapest and Belgrade to Athens. The trains are much more fun! I'm impressed with the look of this train, and the price is a bargain :) Well done Serbia! Travelling soon from JFK to Tel Aviv, with a 2-night stop in Belgrade. Not sure I'll have enough time to try that train :(

Hope they expand this rail in entire length across Serbia that was the plan. 200km is enough and nice speed no need for faster since Serbia is not that big, great video keep it up!

Serbia.❤️💙🤍

Thank you very much for this great review of our Soko. Best regards from Belgrade, Serbia!

OMGGG THIS TRAIN ARE THE SAME IN SWITZERLAND!!! The RE cousin 🤭🫶🏻💕

The chinese working on that line did a terrific job

Good Job Serbia! But i Noticed Its the Same as the Westbahn Train But still Good Job! greetings from Austria ❤️🤍❤️

I am from Serbia Sremska Mitrovica (SM) and I am extremely proud of this Soko train!

I cant wait for my arrival.to Serbia on June 1, taste best foods ever beer and sightseeing and people Serbia stay strong❤ Greetings from 🇨🇦 Canada

When the construction of the new high-speed line to Budapest is finished, the "Soko" will revolutionise rail travel in the Balkans. Serbia is trying hard to fix its ancient railway network, and it clearly shows, but I do agree that Beograd Centar is nowhere near finished, which is a shame - Novi Sad and Novi Beograd stations looks so beautiful IMO. 😍 A note on the "Soko" trains: you said these Stadler trains are similar to those operated by DB and Westbahn. I can confirm that by close inspection, the train's interior and appearance looks *IDENTICAL* to Westbahn!

We also use this Stadler trains in Germany....👍

I appreciate your rather good attempts at pronouncing our tricky words! Glad you had a good time.

The trains are manufactured by Stadler Rail from Switzerland. Come to Switzerland and you will see the same trains, train stations and railway lines. 😉

I am from Serbia and I recommend traveling with the train it is so cool that you feel like in a spaceship!!!Thank you COKO.❤

Moram priznati jako lijepo uređeno.

Fantastic video. I would love to watch a few more from you. Maybe I can add a little more good information. Once completed Belgrade- Budapest will take about 2:45 min with border checks happening at the railways stations, so it won't need to slow down on the border. And currently, with EU support Serbia is planning on linking Belgrade to Niš (Serbia's 3rd largest city) and then to the Macedonian border with High-SpeedRail. If Macedonia builds High-Speed Rail (it's possible with EU infrastructure support) it will link the central European networks to Greece with HSR from Budapest. You could take a sleeper train from Vienna to Greece easily. After the HSR in Serbia, Belgrade to Vienna and Bratislava will take a little more the 5 hours. And if with TEN-T Budapest-Vienna (or Budapest-Prag) gets upgraded to HSR eventually it could cut down travel from the Balkans to Central Europe significantly. Construction on Belgrade station will be done soon (finally), it should look rather nice. And Belgrade will connect the station better in time. Belgrade also started building its metro system last year, Its metro line 3 will connect under the railway station. But that's a long way away, since building it takes a lot of time. Another interesting decision is the ticket price (less than half the price of a 3 times slower bus). It was a bit controversial to set it to low. Since building HSR is expensive, the low ticket price will not repay the cost in any reasonable time. But the country set the low price with the reasoning that giving access to more people will give more benefits both economic and social. I don't always agree with the government, but I think this is a smart move that I hope they keep implementing going forward with new HSR projects. Since I love trains and the planing behind it I looked up the logig behind Serbia's approach. If anyone is interested, there is a very interesting video I recently saw, from some small channel, about why it can be a good thing for trains to lose money, I can link it hear. Serbia is following the advice and I think it's good. Glad you had a good time and I look forward to your other videos. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZBH7n8KtyMw.html

Come to Croatia ... you will waste two days of hollyday just to get from Osijek to Pula ... good luck ... p.s. during winter take a snow shovel 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Pozz iz Hr

Nice video. Definitely will try this next time I'm in the country. Got family in both Belgrade and Novi Sad.

as a serbian i can approve the train and its very good in my opinion

You covered this very good :) thanks ❤🇷🇸

The 80-kilometer-long, Chinese-built Belgrade-Novi Sad high-speed railway has been carrying passengers at speeds of up to 200 kilometers per hour since March 2022, looks amazing!

Actually those intermediate stations are served by the Regio Train between Belgrade and Novi Sad going at 160km/h and arriving in 57m. It's hourly, either SOKO goes or Regio goes.

I did Budapest Keleti to Athens in 1983 - this looks like a MASSIVE improvement! And yes, it got worse in the interim years.

At the station you say that meals are not provided on the train. Later you actually filmed the menu on 8:16 (sandwiches). Everything else you say is spot on. Greetings from Novi Sad.