(13 Dec 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Various exteriors of train station
2. Wide shot inside station
3. Mid shot of Belgrade-Sarajevo train
4. Policemen standing on platform
5. Mid shot of train carriage
6. Sign reading "Sarajevo"
7. Mid shot of carriages
8. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Dusan Bosnjakovic, engine driver:
"It is a good thing that this train is operating again after so many years. I hope that passengers will be satisfied."
9. Passengers on platform
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Josip Veber, passenger:
"I am very glad and happy that this train is operating again after almost 20 years. It did not make any sense not to have a connection with Sarajevo."
11. Mid shot of engine driver and conductor
12. Travelling shot of train departing, hand waving
13. Various train interiors, passengers, views from windows
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Franciska Wicker, passenger:
"I am touched. I feel that it's some kind of historic moment, even though it is not looking like this because there are no signs. It's only a lot of journalists and not a lot of travellers but it feels special somehow."
15. Various of conductor checking tickets, passengers, views from windows
16. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) name not given, passenger, vox pop:
"The first departure after 18 years. I often travel to Sarajevo, I have many friends there. I love travelling on the train and I am very excited that this train is operating again."
17. Travelling shot of railway tracks
STORYLINE
A grimy three-car train pulled out of Belgrade's railway station on Sunday 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
The railway line was re-established as part of efforts to patch up broken ties between Serbia and Bosnia.
"It is a good thing that this train is operating again after so many years. I hope that passengers will be satisfied," said engine driver Dusan Bosnjakovic, before the train departed from Belgrade.
17 passengers boarded the train in the Serbian capital, but only nine were planning the journey all the way to Sarajevo.
"I am touched. I feel that it's some kind of historic moment, even though it is not looking like this because there are no signs," said passenger Franciska Wicker.
Its windows smeared and seats shabby and old, the train looked nothing like its old self, when it was called the Olympic Express and declared the pride of the Communist-run former Yugoslavia.
Back in 1980s', the Belgrade-Sarajevo line was a main traffic artery in the ex-federation and the most modern one.
The train was made up for the 1984 winter Olympics in Sarajevo, with a red carpet and stewardesses.
Then, the carriages were packed with skiers, business people or fun-loving youth commuting between the two cities.
Railway officials said they hope the line will attract more people during upcoming winter holidays.
They said the ticket price of 31 EUR (45 USD) for the approximately 500-kilometre (310-mile) journey, was a bargain compared to the cost of a car drive.
Since the 1980s', Belgrade and Sarajevo - once very close cities - have grown far apart.
During Bosnia's 1992-95 war, Serbia's nationalist leadership armed and supported a Bosnian Serb deadly three-year siege of Sarajevo which killed thousands of its residents.
The war also saw both cities change dramatically, with the once travel-loving middle class growing impoverished, the educated youth fleeing the war and the refugees pouring in.
In an illustration of the postwar realities, the train will cross two borders in more than eight hours.
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