The Balkan pages

The station of Brailovo in the '30 ?

The station of Bogomila, at the left in some where around 1930 and at the right in 2006.

Two pictures of the station of Gevgelija.

At the left: the station of Gradsko destroyed by the Germans when they retread, late 1944. Photo from a private collection from S. van Geffen: Thanks to him for allowing me to place this picture. At the right: the station of Gradsko.

Kadina Reka, 4th September 2008

Arriving at the station of Kicevo, 28th May 2009.

The station of Kumanovo

Info about the picture below:

Above: the station of MILINO between Veles and Ovce Pole. After the II world war its name was changed to: TOSO ARSOV (stations from Veles in direction Stip: Veles, Kosulcevi, Jazla and then TOSO ARSOV) there was a period when people from Bosnia and Macedonia moved to Turkey (the people who were Muslim, not the Christians!) because they could ground companies in Turkey under good conditions. In that years somebody put fire and the station TOSO ARSOV and it burned out. It was repaired and it got the today-design. Middle: station of OVCE POLJE (so it is in the Serbian language - it was Serbia in the time when the railway line was built! The Macedonians say: OVCE POLE!). This is the ORIGINAL design of the station of OVCE POLE. Under: station of OTAVICA shortly after it was opened. After the II world war the name was changed to: KOSULCEVI (to remember brothers Kosulcevi from this area who struggled against the German and Bulgarian ocupation army in the war!)

The station of Ohrid: nowadays there is no railway link to Ohrid, because everything disappeared: nowadays there are plans to extent the railway link from Kicevo to Ohrid and the Albanian border (Struga) as part of the 8th Corridor (from Varna -Bulgaria towards Durrës-Albania via Sofia and Skopje)

The station of Prilep, in the 30' (left) and now (right)

Below: At the left you see the old railway station of Skopje (picture made in May 2006): this station was the main station untill 1963, when on the 26 th July an eartquake did destroyed it. At the right you see the new station which is nowadays still the main station.

Below, the left picture: the station of Stip as it is still now.

In the picture below at the right:
- above: the station of OTAVICA during construction, on 05.12.1924 (it was not yet finished when the railway line Veles - Stip was opened!)
- down: the station of STIP - the celebration on 16.11.1924 when the first train arrived in STIP. It took a whole year more until the line Stip - Kocani (only 31 km!) was finished.

Below the stations of Sveti Djordje (above) and Gradsko (down).

At the right: the station of Tetevo nowadays. At the left the stations of Tetevo (above) and Kicevo (down) in the past.

Bacun / Vasil Antevski / Dren.
DREN is a mountain area near Bogomila; Vasil Antevski is a person from the Macedonian history. Maybe "Dren" was his nickname. There is no village with this name - this is only the name of a station!

Below at the left:  The stations of Veles (above) and Jezgropoljci (down). Below at the right the station of Veles, 4th September 2008

Zelenikovo, 4th September 2008