A view along the front of the old railway station, a plain rendered building of two and three storeys with wide openings at platform level. Two painted banners are fixed across its frontage, the lower running the width of the frame and the upper cut by the edge of the picture. The station's own name board stands out at the right. A dense crowd of civilians is packed behind a low railing on the platform, men in caps and hats, women in headscarves and coats, many with bundles and cases. In the left foreground a group of soldiers in sidecaps and field kit stand and squat about their packs, one crouching over a bicycle. Two more walk away down the track side toward the crowd, and a soldier stands at the right of the frame looking back at the camera. Tram or siding rails run along the foreground.
About this place
The first station in Novi Sad, built in 1882 on the site of today's Liman market. The first train reached the city on 5 March 1883 from Subotica, and the line onward to Zemun opened that December. When the railway was moved north to make room for the growing city the station was demolished, and only its former post office building survives. Postcards of it are captioned Vasutallomas in Hungarian and Eisenbahnstation in German.
On the card
...НОВА ФЕДЕРАТИВНА ЈУГОСЛАВИЈА
...АРШАЛ СТАЉИН
НОВИ САД
... new federative Yugoslavia
... Marshal Stalin
Novi Sad
- Date
- 1944–1946
- Coordinates
- 45.24323, 19.83719
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2123 × 1384 px
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