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

[jon@gruene.social]

Now the Croatian side. It’s a more modern border station but no less inefficient.

[cycling_on_rails@mastodon.social]

@jon "Diseases don't respect borders" hence checking goods at a foot border. Security theater?

[emilianosandri@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@jon When I came back to Italy after the last EuroBSDCon we might have spent more time in border checks than in actual travel.

[jon@gruene.social]

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Train 33 of 86
R 6208
11:47 Osijek - Beli Manastir 12:17
HZPP

Train type: Bombardier 612 tilting DMU, 2 carriages
️
: ️
🦽: (theoretically but I don’t know how)
🛜: ️
️: (there’s a fridge on board, but I suspect not operational)
🧳: (high steps)
🧽:
Interrail: (accepted)

[jon@gruene.social]

R 6208
11:47 Osijek - Beli Manastir 12:17

Distance: 27.3km
Average speed: 55km/h

4 stops:
Osijek Dravski Most
Darda
Ceminac
Beli Manastir

This train, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#12/45.659287/18.654442

#CrossBorderRail

[jon@gruene.social]

Why we have a tilting train here is anyone’s guess

The track is quite straight. The terrain flat.

[nedzad@chaos.social]

@jon HŽ tends to send whatever they have on hand, which often ends up with situations like this. Additionally they've removed them from the Zagreb-Split service a few years ago so they have some to use for nonsensical routes.

[jon@gruene.social]

That’s

Baranjsko Petrovo Selo - Beremend

The railway ran to the right of the road border station

[jon@gruene.social]

That is

Donji Miholjac - Drávaszabolcs

Any signs of the rail bridge that used to run alongside the road bridge are long gone

[jon@gruene.social]

And that’s

Terezino Polje - Drávasztára-Zaláta

Hungarian side, was too hard to get to the river here

[jon@gruene.social]

That was along:

#CrossBorderRail 2026 Spring Tour Bike 7 of 14
Beli Manastir - Drávakeresztúr

Distance: 97.1km
Est. duration: 7:15

This bike route, mapped: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crossborderrail-2026-spring-tour_1361108#11/45.774468/18.174133

Yes you can do almost 100km on a Birdy

[jon@gruene.social]

Here's today's #CrossBorderRail summary

#CrossBorderRail live stream - 3/9/2026, 6:44:58 PM

Morning previews of the day ahead, and evening summaries of what I learned during the day. During Jon Worth's #CrossBorderRail Spring Tour 2026.

Netzbegrünung PeerTube (peertube.netzbegruenung.de)

Nice cycling, good day, hopeless for the future of #CrossBorderRail

[jsl@hachyderm.io]

@jon Congratulations for riding a self-supported audax on your Birdie!
Never ridden one, but quite a capable machine by the looks of it.

[rom4n@sueden.social]

@jon Wait, I thought you have a Brompton folding bike? Nice travels!

[jon@gruene.social]

@rom4n no I’m a Birdy devotee. @mejs I’m touring with has the Brompton

[andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it]

@jon @rom4n @mejs What do you like about Birdy?

[jon@gruene.social]

@Andres4NY it's an amazing bike for what I do (I have just done 140km on it, over 2 days) - it rides well, uses more standard components than a Brompton, has full suspension. I'd NOT commute every day with a Birdy, but for the tours I do it is perfect. It folds well enough. @rom4n @mejs

[andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it]

@jon @rom4n @mejs Interesting, thanks! I hadn't heard of them before.

[jon@gruene.social]

@Andres4NY @rom4n @mejs the original manufacturer Riese + Müller just sold the design to Pacific Cycles. They might do more with it!

[rom4n@sueden.social]

@jon @Andres4NY @mejs Hi Jon. interesting. Amazing that you do such trips with folding bike. And you bypass all headache with bike in TGV etc? I traveled with the bike a lot in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Italy - all fine but countries like France are a headache with my "normal" bike.