Rebuilt section of future Skopje – Sofia railway inaugurated

NORTH MACEDONIA: Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski has inaugurated the first section of a future rail route between Skopje and Sofia which is being developed as part of pan-European Corridor VIII to link the Adriatic and the Black seas.

The section of line inaugurated on January 17 starts at Kumanovo on the Corridor X main line between Skopje and Beograd and runs 30·8 km to Beljakovce. It includes three large and six small stations, five bridges and one tunnel.

It originally opened 1956, but traffic stopped in 1994 because of the poor state of the infrastructure. Domestic companies were appointed to rehabilitate the line the same year, but this work made little progress and the l…