Leaving passenger railway station with 210 (Vinkovci - Villach) and passing abadoned busiest railway Hub in Ex-Yugoslavia getting swallowed by tree"s, bushes, jungle, etc. The marshalling yard is also known as Vinkovci Teretna (eng:Vinkovci Freight)

ABOUT THE VINKOVCI AND THE BUSIEST JUNCTION IN
Do you know what makes Vinkovci so important? The first is that it is the oldest European city and the second is that they had the busiest railway station in Yugoslavia. But today, when older people come to the railway station, they are saddened when they remember how it looked before the breakup of Yugoslavia. The golden age of Vinkovci railway station was in the 70’s and 80’s of the last century. Daily flow in all trains, both incoming and outgoing, was approximately 50 thousand passengers per day, or more than 18.2 million passengers per year. At that time, about 3000 railway workers were employed at the Vinkovci railway station. It was for this reason that it was called the city of railwaymen.

The fact is that for many years Vinkovci was the largest railway hub in the former state – Yugoslavia, but also in this part of Europe.

The Breakup of Yugoslavia and the Homeland War
Until the Homeland War in the 24 hours through Vinkovci passed and up to 360 trains. Or, in other words, every four to four and a half minutes a train passed through Vinkovci. There were almost 60 kilometers of the track at the freight station. The war in the territory of the former state in the 1990s, first and foremost, resulted in hours of waiting for trains. These problems have caused freight transport to be largely transferred from this railway line to the 4th corridor, which goes from Europe to Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria towards Turkey and beyond. Today, the economic damage is enormous. For example, in a month, 800 trains pass through the 4th corridor.

Vinkovci railway station today
Today at HŽ Infrastruktura d.o.o. there are about 480 workers in organizational units, far fewer than the former 3000. There are no longer international trains that used to pass and stop in Vinkovci. These were, for example, Thessaloniki-express, Hellas-express, or Orient-express, in which the mysterious murder described by Agatha Christie happened just between Vinkovci and Slavonski Brod. The extent of the huge fall in passenger numbers can only be analyzed through one piece of information – until the Homeland War, the train journey from Zagreb to Belgrade took three and a half hours, and today it takes six hours. The last renovation of the Vinkovci station was in 2015 when old concrete platforms were demolished, new canopies were installed and new lighting was installed.

The remains of the former old German cemetery are located in Neudorf, today's Vinkovačko Novo Selo, where the Germans who founded Neudorf buried their dead. It is located along the northern edge of the freight marshalling yard. Due to the expansion of what was once one of the largest marshalling yards in the former state, the cemetery was built in the period from 1947 to 1957. completely devastated and destroyed and neglected for decades. The cemetery is located on:04:05 just before tower with spotlights, but since the trees are healed, the cemetery is not visible in the video

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