The Sarajevo to Belgrade express rail service resumed service on Sunday after a break of 18 years.

A three-coach train pulled into Sarajevo carrying many passengers who just wanted to see it running again.

Before this train service, people had to use buses and other means of transportation.

The train has three coaches, one each from Serbia, Bosnian Serb republic, and the Bosnian-Croat federation railway companies.

The journey took longer than it used to before the war because of the new borders between Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, and the dilapidated track worn out by war, neglect and poverty.

Parts of the track were blown up or became front lines as an ethnic Serb rebellion cut Croatia in half, and ethnic Serbs, Croats and Muslims fought each other in Bosnia.

There will be only one train a day, compared with three before the war.