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Welcome to today's thread - South East Europe Day 09 09 Jun 2024 - Sarajevo - Maglaj - Doboj

Crossing these borders:
Internal border Bosnian Federation to Republika Srpska

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#11/44.6337/18.1165

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-south-east-europe-v9-draft_1053482#10/44.9458/17.2444

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Stunning trip. And Mostar has a brutalist station. Needs a bit of upkeep, but quite a building!

River in the valley
Running beside the river
Mostar station

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#CrossBorderRail timetable failure

Despite both paper and online timetables stating Ploče - Sarajevo trains started yesterday for the summer season, that’s NOT the case

This train - 722 - dep 1647 from Čaplijna is the last one today

International trains might start 28 June guy at ticket office told me

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Welcome to today's thread - #CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 08 08 Jun 2024 - Sarajevo - Mostar - Čapljina - Sarajevo

Crossing these borders:
Metković 🇭🇷 - Čapljina 🇧🇦

These borders on the borders map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-all-the-borders_935041#12/43.0612/17.6640

Today's routes on the routes map:
https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-south-east-europe-v9-draft_1053482#9/43.4410/17.9158

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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024 Train 20 of 62
B 1391
07:15 Sarajevo - Mostar 09:13
ŽFBH

Train type: Končar, TŽV Janko Gredelj, Đuro Đaković, MIN Niš 441 locomotive, 2x9 short Talgo carriages
⚡️
🚲: ⛔️
🦽: ❓(wheelchair space on board, no idea how you get one in)
🛜: ⛔️
🍽️: ✅ (basic bar)
🧳: 🙂 (decent racks)
🧽: 🙂

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Sarajevo

Horrid for 🚘 drivers
Loads of congestion, nowhere to park

Horrid for 🚌 🚃 passengers
Because those get stuck in car traffic

Horrid for 🚲 riders
Because the roads are choked with cars, no bike lanes

Horrid for 🚶
Because cars park on pavements

GET
RID
OF
SOME
CARS

Everyone wins

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I’ve used the rest day to sort and upload some of the photos from previous days of https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonworth-eu/

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Some pics around Sarajevo today

Train to Maglaj - just 2 carriages
Talgo at the depot
Platforms. Also brutalist concrete roof structures. Not much going on.

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This reactivation makes sense, if they can somehow fix the viaduct. It’s a rather forgotten connection, but for people in the region would make sense!
https://mastodon.online/@bahnoev/112576092108897717

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Amazing 🤣

Go to ticket office at Sarajevo station to buy my Ploče-Sarajevo ticket for tomorrow evening

Guy, pictured. “No! Go to information!”

That’s two windows further

Woman at information, pictured. “Go to ticket sell!” Points back to the guy

Back and forth. Neither can sell me a ticket! Even with the help of translation apps

This is a world away from Minister Forto’s speech earlier…

ZFBiH information office woman

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The next LOL. The Talgo trains in Bosnia are approved for 220 km/h. 🤣

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And ZFBiH really has its priorities wrong. As well as employing two people to not sell me a ticket (see earlier toot), I was told off for taking this photo of the roof of the hall of Sarajevo station (which is brutalist and quite cool!)

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All right

Learning from today, and follow up:

  • there are meant to be joint border and customs controls 🇲🇪 🇷🇸 at Bijelo Polje by mid June. Check this is the case once I’m there end June!

  • Albania is meant to have its new railway - inc to Tirana airport - running and electrified by 2025. I’ll go check this, inc the airport, to see if that looks viable

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Really struggling with my workflow here in Sarajevo today. The wifi in the conference venue, and the cafe next door, are both too slow. And my workflow is too dependent on uploads to the cloud… I’ll eventually get the photos onto Flickr and share HD videos with the journalist who wants them.

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Ha. Now Forto is talking about the Una railway. Which is precisely where I’m going on the ground on Tuesday 🙂

He wants new railways connecting ports. That’s… ambitious!

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Thank goodness. Someone who knows their stuff and knows how to communicate it. Edin Forto (Transport Minister, Bosnia) - he’s a good speaker.

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Joint controls at Bijelo Polje should start 16 June the Minister says. I’m going there 30 June. So we’ll see 🙂

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Ahhhh. Done for the day and sat on a sunny terrace in Sarajevo. And I’m here for the next 3 nights, with just a day trip Saturday to Ploče. That’s very calm by standards 🙂

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I’m speaking shortly about #CrossBorderRail in Sarajevo. Trying to apply some lessons from my project to South East Europe

No Stream, but PDF of slides here:

https://nextcloud.techpolitics.eu/index.php/s/p8Er87ySxKqAAbX?dir=undefined&openfile=115551

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Green Mobility Summit. Where the bike parking is a lamp post. And there’s no way to take the stairs not to the lift… and there’s a LCD screen to direct people #CrossBorderRail

image/jpeg

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One or two comments at this Green Mobility Summit make me think the new railway line Kjustendil 🇧🇬 - Kriva Palanka 🇲🇰 is not as advanced as the news stories claim. I’m now extra looking forward to going there 🙂 #CrossBorderRail

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I’ve used the break in the #GreenMobilitySummit to sort some of the photos from the earlier days of #CrossBorderRail - those are on Flickr now https://www.flickr.com/photos/jonworth-eu/

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Ha. That lamppost I used to park my bike… it has a warning that I’m not meant to park bikes on it! 😅 Sod that. #GreenMobilitySummit #CrossBorderRail

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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! 🎉

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#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!

Builder plate. 1985. It’s 39 years old.

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#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)

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#CrossBorderRail unexpected bus

Magyarbóly - Beli Manastir

This is border 211
Beli Manastir 🇭🇷 - Magyarbóly 🇭🇺

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#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)
🧽: 🙂

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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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