Mastodawn

Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail 2026 Tour Day 10 - 9 Mar - Beograd - Osijek - Beli Manastir - Drávakeresztúr

New borders:
Baranjsko Petrovo Selo 🇭🇷 - Beremend 🇭🇺
Donji Miholjac 🇭🇷 - Drávaszabolcs 🇭🇺
Terezino Polje 🇭🇷 - Drávasztára-Zaláta 🇭🇺

The Hungary-Croatia border was set in 1920 in the Treaty of Trianon, and that cut many railway lines. I am going to check out 3 of them today.

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#9/45.231382/19.000854

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Jon Worth Mar 9

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Bus 3 of 11

06:30 Beograd - Osijek 10:08
Šid Ekspres

Bus type: VDL Berkhof coach

🚲: ⛔ (not officially, but the hold is massive - you might manage)
🦽: ⛔️
🛜: ⛔
🍽️: ⛔
🧳: 🙂 (loads of space)️
🧽: 🙂 (it's old, but it's well looked after)️

Funny

I have a ticket with a barcode on my phone

The driver has the same ticket, printed 🙂

That’s not how digital ticketing is meant to work!

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Megan Lynch (she/her)Mar 9

@jon How did you select the bus? Do they have a reliable website or was it word-of-mouth or did you just have to show up at a bus station and see who was going where?

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Jon Worth

@meganL it was the only one on this route today! I found it on Bus Radar that works ok in the Balkans. I’m no fan of buses, but as there are no trains here it was my only option!