Plavi voz
Plavi voz ( Serbo-Croatian for blue train ) is the popular name of the former state train of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito .
The vehicles
Tito officially used a state train for the first time in 1946. Blue painted saloon cars and locomotives painted in blue specially made for Tito were used as vehicles from 1956 . The wagon construction factories "GOŠA" in Smederevska Palanka and " Boris Kidrič " in Maribor were commissioned to build the wagons . Precious woods ( mahogany , walnut and cherry ) were used for the interior . In addition to Tito's salon car with its cabinet room , the composition also had a dining car and a covered transport car. The Plavi voz depot was and is the Topčider train station in the prominent Dedinje district , not far from Tito's Belgrade residence.
Calls
Tito regularly used the Plavi voz for state events at home and abroad. About 60 state guests of Tito were carried as passengers in the Plavi voz , including Nicolae Ceaușescu , Muammar al-Gaddafi and Queen Elisabeth II. Tito also drove in the Plavi voz on visits abroad, to Austria , France , Poland , Hungary , Russia , Romania , Bulgaria and Greece . In addition, it was Tito's preferred means of travel to go to his residences (including the Karadjordjevo State Stud ).
The plavi voz was used as an element of the public celebration of state occasions until 1989. The inaugural trip of the Belgrade – Bar line on 28/29 was particularly popular in the media. May by Tito with his wife Jovanka, as well as the transfer of Tito's body from Ljubljana via Zagreb to Belgrade on May 5, 1980. His last official state tour was carried out under Slobodan Milošević during the celebration of the 600th anniversary of the Battle of the Blackbird Field on June 28, 1989, when Milošević took the Plavi voz to Gazimestan, where he gave his Blackbird Field speech . After that, the Plavi voz was no longer used as a symbol of a state and power insignia on official state occasions of the public.
Since 2007, partial compositions of the Plavi voz have been used for tourist trips. Since the end of 2009, one composition has been running on the Belgrade – Bar railway line every day in a Plavi voz saloon car.
Locomotives and railcars
Voz to the sets of the Plavi were also locomotives, including three fast - steam locomotives of the series JDZ 11 , three diesel locomotives ( "Sutjeska" , "Kozara" and "Dinara" ) of the type Krauss-Maffei ML 2200 C'C ' and last four American General Motors series 666 diesel locomotives - JT 22CW-2 ( "Dinara 666- 001", "Kozara 666 - 002" , "Sutjeska 666 - 003" and "Neretva 666 - 004").
In addition to the Plavi voz, various railcars were also in use as state trains, including the JŽ MOT 410 railcar .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Serbian Railways Homepage, Plavi voz history Plavi voz history ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Barbara Gruber, Deutsche Welle, June 2007 "Yugo-Nostalgie" - Tito's Blue Train
- ↑ Novosti, February 25, 2015 Opet bruji Sutjeska
- ↑ B92, 07 February. 2010 Vozom Beograd-Bar za 11 sati
- ↑ Novosti, February 25, 2015 Opet bruji Sutjeska
