On the first day of November, Aleksandar Matkovic was running late for a train. He was traveling from Novi Sad, in the north of Serbia, to its capital Belgrade, where he works as an economic ...

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It will be at least two years before the transformation of the network is complete.

Some 1900 trains were cancelled on Wednesday and another 1000 services are expected not to run on Thursday.