Two #CrossBorderRail borders done today already
Lanžhot 🇨🇿 - Brodské 🇸🇰
was at 3am, and I’ve been there before anyway
Štúrovo 🇸🇰 - Szob 🇭🇺
I’ve only been to before #CrossBorderRail so that is now added - border number 211. Pic is of the border bridge
Hungary: country with the second best railway jingle!
Dhhh-duddleoo-duddelloo!
Quick ride across Budapest under threatening skies…
#CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 Bike 15 of 38
Budapest Nyugati - Budapest-Kelenföld
Distance: 7.4km
Est. duration: 0:45
This bike route, mapped on Komoot: https://www.komoot.com/de-de/tour/1522123426
#CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 Train 12 of 68
IC 812
10:12 Budapest-Kelenföld - Pécs 12:43
MÁV
Train type: MÁV V63 "Gigant" locomotive, 6 carriages
⚡️
🚲: ✅ (Hungarian railways are SUPER for bikes)
🦽: ✅ (needs ramp, it’s on board I think)
🛜: ✅ (in my carriage yes, but not all)
🍽️: ✅
🧳: 🙂
🧽: 🙂
It gets a top score, just about!
IC 812
10:12 Budapest-Kelenföld - Pécs 12:43
Distance: 222.2km
Average speed: 88km/h
4 stops:
Sárbogárd
Dombóvár
Szentlőrinc
Pécs
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-south-east-europe-v9-draft_1053482
The routes for #CrossBorderRail South East Europe May-June 2024 - see http://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/ HOW TO USE THIS MAP Lines on the map show train, bus and bike routes - each plotted as accurately as possible. PURPLE and ORANGE lines are train routes. These alternate - one day purples, one day oranges. A different shade indicates a different train. GREEN lines are bus routes. GREY lines are bike routes - more details about these can be found on Komoot here: https://www.komoot.de/user/1897747552710 The full timetable for these routes is here: https://nextcloud.techpolitics.eu/index.php/s/ZjdP5YGH6ZS6ZHK Details of all of Europe's rail border crossings can be found in this map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_838780
Hmmm
This train to Pécs isn’t great
Between Sárbogárd and Dombóvár it’s single track and quite slow and bumpy. The modern IC+ carriage has nice seats but lots of things rattle. I’d somehow sooner have a real branch line train than this quasi InterCity!
#CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 Train 13 of 68
R 7305
12:50 Pécs - Beli Manastir 13:53
MÁV
Train type: MÁV Bzmot railbuses (3 coupled)
⛽️
🚲: ❓(not officially but there’s space)
🦽: ⛔️
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 😐 (high narrow entrances, on board it’s ok)
🧽: 😐 (grimy)
R 7305
12:50 Pécs - Beli Manastir 13:53
Distance: 53.1km
Average speed: 51km/h
12 stops:
Pécs-Külváros
Pécsbánya-Rendező
Pécsudvard
Szőkéd
Áta
Kistótfalu
Vokány
Palkonya
Villánykövesd
Villány
Magyarbóly
Beli Manastir
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-south-east-europe-v9-draft_1053482#11/45.9227/18.4103
6211
The routes for #CrossBorderRail South East Europe May-June 2024 - see http://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/ HOW TO USE THIS MAP Lines on the map show train, bus and bike routes - each plotted as accurately as possible. PURPLE and ORANGE lines are train routes. These alternate - one day purples, one day oranges. A different shade indicates a different train. GREEN lines are bus routes. GREY lines are bike routes - more details about these can be found on Komoot here: https://www.komoot.de/user/1897747552710 The full timetable for these routes is here: https://nextcloud.techpolitics.eu/index.php/s/ZjdP5YGH6ZS6ZHK Details of all of Europe's rail border crossings can be found in this map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_838780
Pécsudvard
More bus shelter than train station. A couple get on. The Bzmot’s engine scares a cat
Szőkéd
Brutalist station has seen better days. A dude with funky sunglasses gets on
Magyarbóly
So yes the train did end here today. Then it’s a bus across the border… But it’s waiting.
#CrossBorderRail unexpected bus
Magyarbóly - Beli Manastir
This is border 211
Beli Manastir 🇭🇷 - Magyarbóly 🇭🇺
#CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 Train 14 of 68
6211
14:25 Beli Manastir - Osijek 14:56
HŽPP
Train type: Macosa 7121 DMU, 2 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ❓(no official space but you could make it work)
🦽: ❓(pretty sure there’s no ramp, although platform is ok)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 😐 (narrow doors, no space for large luggage)
🧽: 🙂
6211
14:25 Beli Manastir - Osijek 14:56
Distance: 27.3km
Average speed: 53km/h
4 stops:
Čeminac
Darda
Osijek Dravski Most
Osijek
This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-south-east-europe-v9-draft_1053482#11/45.6594/18.6541
The routes for #CrossBorderRail South East Europe May-June 2024 - see http://crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/ HOW TO USE THIS MAP Lines on the map show train, bus and bike routes - each plotted as accurately as possible. PURPLE and ORANGE lines are train routes. These alternate - one day purples, one day oranges. A different shade indicates a different train. GREEN lines are bus routes. GREY lines are bike routes - more details about these can be found on Komoot here: https://www.komoot.de/user/1897747552710 The full timetable for these routes is here: https://nextcloud.techpolitics.eu/index.php/s/ZjdP5YGH6ZS6ZHK Details of all of Europe's rail border crossings can be found in this map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_838780
These Macosa DMUs in Croatia might look ok outside, but they’re *grim*
The motors are insanely loud
Some have air con - a little less loud, but the air is very bad. This one doesn’t - air is better, but noise is deafening
Pro tip: the very front is the quietest there is. Still not great, but passable!
Overall though the infra here is better than I’d expected - on the whole Pécs - Beli Manastir - Osijek route
Replace the Macosa DMU with something better and run some fewer stops InterRegio trains and this would be pretty good
The reason I had a bus was some engineering works - so totally legitimate
So that was an effing mess
Typical HŽPP
I went towards what I thought was my train (the only train there was) and asked. It wasn’t my train because my train was replaced by a bus between Osijek and Đurđenovac
And then the HŽPP guy got annoyed by my Interrail pass in a bus so cramped my knees are crushed in
Another passenger told me the reason: “emergency track maintenance” 🤷♂️
And really the zeal with which this HŽPP guy is checking tickets on this bus is quite something.
Generally when DB runs a Schienenersatzverkehr bus they don’t check tickets, a sort of “we know this is inconvenient, we’ll leave you in peace”. But not here.
@jon I've technically also done it in Italy once, but it was during a photoshoot after a heritage train ride (to Osoppo) so it doesn't really count!
This part of the line is only used by heritage trains (+ some freight) for now, though there are plans to reopen it to regular passenger traffic
Jon Worth
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