Another train drama in Serbia

We got on the night train to Ljubljana at 9pm after our wonderful host, Borjan, dropped us off at the station.

We got on the train at 9pm and although there were no sleeping cars as such, we had a cabin to ourselves and we worked out that the chairs pulled out to make beds!

We started getting ready for bed about 10pm, but at 10:45pm the train stopped at what we thought was a station and everyone seemed to be more chatty than normal for this hour.... well, it turns out that the there was a car on the tracks and looking out of the windows, there are blue flashing lights from police, ambulance, fire service or all three at the front of the train. We don’t know yet if we’ve hit anything or anyone or what’s going on.

Update later... but I think we’ll definitely be giving Slovenia a miss because I foresee a huge delay. I just hope no one has been hurt...

UPDATE: A car was driving over the level crossing (there are loads of them here) and the train hit the front of it. There was a 38 year-old man driving who has been seriously hurt and taken to hospital. I’ve no idea why he was on the crossing... had the lights failed, or had he overshot them, or tried to play chicken, or maybe been on the track intentionally... who knows.Læs mere