Belgrade-Sarajevo train resumes after 18 years

A grimy three-carriage train pulled out of Belgrade’s railway station today on the first direct trip to Sarajevo in nearly 18 years, restoring a link broken at the start of ethnic warfare in the former Yugoslavia.

Branko Rogosic, a 43-year-old Belgrade lawyer, was one of 17 passengers who boarded the drab-looking train. Only nine were planning the journey all the way to Sarajevo.