BUDAPEST, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — Freight services on the Hungarian section of the Budapest-Belgrade railway officially resumed just after midnight on Friday, with the first train departing from Budapest’s Ferencvaros station.<\/p>\n
The Budapest-Belgrade railway, a flagship project under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is a key infrastructure undertaking jointly built by China, Hungary, and Serbia to link the two capitals.<\/p>\n
The Hungarian section, spanning approximately 158.6 km, is an electrified line designed for both passenger and freight transport, with a maximum speed of 160 km per hour.<\/p>\n
Construction of the Hungarian section, jointly undertaken by China Railway Group Limited and local Hungarian firms, began in July 2020 and entered the civil engineering construction phase in February 2022.<\/p>\n
The project marks the first time that Chinese railway technology and equipment have been aligned with the European Union’s Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI).<\/p>\n
The Serbian section of the railway became fully operational last October.<\/p>\n
Once the entire line is in full service, travel time between Budapest and Belgrade will be slashed from eight hours to approximately three and a half hours.<\/p>\n
The upgraded link is expected to significantly facilitate people-to-people exchanges and the transport of goods, boosting economic development along the route while strengthening connectivity across Central and Eastern Europe. \u25a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BUDAPEST, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) — Freight<\/span> services on the Hungarian section … designed for both passenger and freight<\/span> transport, with a maximum speed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}