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A mix of German politics, European politics and railways #CrossBorderRail. In English and German.

Eine Mischung aus deutscher Politik, europäischer Politik und Eisenbahnen. Auf englisch und auf deutsch.

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bovine3dom, to random
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@jon you might be interested to learn that some local associations around Breil-sur-Roya are trying to draw attention to some of the insanities around ticketing, although they don't mention not being able to buy Italian tickets at all https://nice-cuneo-ventimiglia.blogspot.com/2024/06/plaidoyer-pour-le-maintien-et-le.html

A representative starts talking about the line half way through this clip https://www.bfmtv.com/cote-d-azur/replay-emissions/bonsoir-cote-d-azur/nice-tende-un-plaidoyer-pour-sauver-la-ligne_VN-202406040750.html

jon,
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@bovine3dom thanks. Breil feels a long way from Osijek just now 🙂

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Welcome to today's thread - South East Europe Day 06 04 Jun 2024 - Arrival of night train, Budapest - Pécs - Beli Manastir - Osijek - Zagreb

Crossing these borders:
Lanžhot 🇨🇿 - Brodské 🇸🇰
Štúrovo 🇸🇰 - Szob 🇭🇺
Beli Manastir 🇭🇷 - Magyarbóly 🇭🇺

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/48.971/18.358

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#8/48.971/18.358

Finally South East Europe! 🎉

jon,
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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

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Osijek

Croatia’s 4th city

And nothing happening at its station!

jon,
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Ah. My train is a… bus

jon,
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@diningcar I’m back in a week!

jon,
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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” 🤷‍♂️

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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.

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A train! And it’ll run! 🤯

And I even have a half cold

Đurđenovac station
A Osječko on board the train

jon,
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Personen im Gleis! ‼️

Ah no. It’s Croatia. It’s normal…

jon,
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 Train 15 of 68
780
17:47 Đurđenovac - Zagreb Glavni kolodvor 22:10
HŽPP

Train type: Končar 7023 DMU, 3 carriages
⛽️
🚲: ✅
🦽: ✅ (if platform allows)
🛜: ✅
🍽️: ⛔️
🧳: 😍 (the most amazing overhead racks - a Birdy fits on there!)
🧽: 🙂

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780
17:47 Đurđenovac - Zagreb Glavni kolodvor 22:10

Distance: roughly c. 210km
Average speed: c. 47km/h

18 stops:
Zdenci-Orahovica
Čačinci
Slatina
Cabuna
Suhopolje
Virovitica
Virovitica Grad
Špišić-Bukovica
Vukosavljevica
Pitomača
Kloštar
Đurđevac
Virje
Koprivnica
Križevci
Vrbovec
Dugo Selo
Zagreb Glavni Kol.

This train, mapped from Osijek the original route: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-south-east-europe-v9-draft_1053482#9/45.8259/17.3364

jon,
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@julienw Northern Irish Rail is among the most obsessive about ticket checks I’ve ever seen. The Brits are quite extreme but Northern Ireland one level more

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Zdenci-Orahovica

One passenger alights. An elderly gentleman sits on a bench and observes. And on we go

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Čačinci

A more modern building. Next to a massive silo. This was once more important than today. 2 get on, 1 off

The silo

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This Končar built DMU (built 2019) has two roof mounted diesel engines. But the part where all the seats are is below these engines. The middle car without engine is the PRM toilet and multi use area…

The noise level is ok, but I have been in better

https://www.railwaygazette.com/traction-and-rolling-stock/konar-kev-dmu-enters-service/42090.article

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@kupfers @tml and meanwhile campaign for better trains 🙂

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Slatina

A more substantial place. Half a dozen board, 1 gets off

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😢

Cabuna

No one gets on or off. It’s a charming little station with an impeccably dressed HŽPP employee there

Station manager and Cabuna building

jon,
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This train is painfully slow

And peculiar

Normally when a train is doing barely 50km/h, the reason is obvious - the track is very bad

But we’re on smooth-ish welded track here. 80km/h ought to be doable!

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@Island_Martha I’m now in Croatia yes. Osijek - Koprivnica - Zagreb route

jon,
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Suhopolje

The station manager whistles and we’re on our way. With no new passengers on board. Neat station building too, and a manual level crossing at the exit of the village

jon,
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@Island_Martha oh these are tiny places I’m writing about. Even most Croatians wouldn’t know where these were! But yes, the Warszawa - Budapest night train got me a long way!

jon, (edited )
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Virovitica is the metropolis up next. It has both a Kaufland and a Lidl. I expect at least half a dozen passengers to get on 🙂

jon,
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Virovitica

A more important town, and we’ve been hanging around 10 mins here waiting for the train in the other direction to pass. Nice light though

Virovitica platform

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Virovitica Grad

Town is important enough to get two stations. This one is only important enough for 2 passengers though

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