{"id":1724,"date":"2022-10-30T11:28:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T11:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2025-02-05T19:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:31:44","slug":"belgrade-to-bar-railroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/30\/belgrade-to-bar-railroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgrade to Bar Railroad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As you no doubt remember, I changed my itinerary so I could ride the famous Belgrade to Bar Railway.  It\u2019s nearly 300 miles from Belgrade to Bar, or from Bar to Belgrade, and traverses 254 tunnels and 435 bridges.  Allegedly.  What I discovered is quite different.  I discovered \u2018darkness.\u2019  Yep.  That Belgrade to Bar train is only running at night, I guess because it\u2019s winter-ish and who wants to travel in the winter-ish?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sleeper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The train left Belgrade\u2019s new train station, Belgrade Centar Railway Station, at 8:20pm.  Sunset was at 5:30pm.  It arrived in Bar, Montenegro, at 8:20am.  Sunrise was at 7:12am.  That\u2019s maybe 1.5 hours of enough light to see something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw a couple of the tunnels (oh, by the way, they are dark inside) and a couple of the bridges.  I saw those majestic Montenegro mountains from a distance.  I didn\u2019t meet any French detectives.  No one was murdered.  I could be wrong: it was dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I booked a private sleeper car, essentially buying out a 3-bunk cabin, so I could have privacy and get some sleep.\u00a0 Never been in a sleeper car before.\u00a0 Exciting.\u00a0 Exciting but not super comfortable.\u00a0 I was able to raise up the middle bunk, giving me more room on the bottom to sit up.\u00a0 The mattress was actually nice and comfy, but the train would shake, rattle and roll.\u00a0 After a couple of hours of trying to sleep, I discovered that the train, more often than not, leaned to the right.\u00a0 I swapped my pillow to the left end of the bed, putting my head slight up hill, more often than not.\u00a0 Sweet sleep!\u00a0 Not really.\u00a0 The train still was shaking, rattling and rolling, but a fitful night of sleep is still sleep.\u00a0 I need a nap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Want free advice? Take a train in the summer! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunrise over Shkodra Lake, less than 1 hour to Bar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you no doubt remember, I changed my itinerary so I could ride the famous Belgrade to Bar Railway.  It\u2019s nearly 300 miles from Belgrade to Bar, or from Bar to Belgrade, and traverses 254 tunnels and 435 bridges.  Allegedly.  What I discovered is quite different.  I discovered \u2018darkness.\u2019  Yep.  That Belgrade to Bar train […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downhilltravel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}