*Finally* I am done sorting and uploading photos from #CrossBorderRail South East Europe 2024
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 03 01 Jun 2024 - Häädemeeste - Salacgrīva - Skulte – Jūrmala
The tiny orange pole marks where Rail Baltica will cross the Estonia - Latvia border
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 04 02 Jun 2024 - Jūmala – Rīga - Vilnius
The building site for the future Riga Airport Rail Baltica station
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 05 03 Jun 2024 - Vilnius - Warszawa, onto night train
Finally heading towards the South East! Night train departs Warszawa for Budapest
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 06 04 Jun 2024 - Arrival of night train, Budapest - Pécs - Beli Manastir - Osijek - Zagreb
DMU at Beli Manastir, first station in Croatia (border to Hungary)
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 07 05 Jun 2024 - Zagreb - Vinkovci - Tovarnik - Šid - Ruma - Zvornik
Drone pic of Tovarnik station (final station in Croatia, border to Serbia) - freight crosses the border here, but no passenger trains do
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 08 08 Jun 2024 - Sarajevo - Mostar - Čapljina - Sarajevo
EU funded, Chinese built - the motorway bridge towers above the valley near Čapljina, above the single track somewhat decrepit railway below
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 09 09 Jun 2024 - Sarajevo - Maglaj - Doboj
The train from Sarajevo has arrived at Maglaj, but does not continue to Doboj - as that is in Republika Srpska. Tracks exist still.
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 10 10 Jun 2024 - Doboj - Banja Luka - Dobrljin - Novi Grad
Builder plate of the ZRS class 441 electric locomotive that hauled the Banja Luka - Dobrljin train.
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 11 11 Jun 2024 - Novi Grad - Bihać - Zagreb
Border bridge on the abandoned railway through the Una national park - Bosnia-Croatia border, south of Bihać. The line used to connect Zagreb and Split.
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 12 12 Jun 2024 - Zagreb - Ljubljana
A BMW was so badly parked it was blocking all of the trams that needed to pass! Central Zagreb. It was lifted away, to the amusement of bystanders
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 13 13 Jun 2024 - Ljubljana - Šapjane - Rijeka - Pula - Divača
View from the open train window near Buzet in Istria - an amazing line with only 1 international train a day each way.
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 14 14 Jun 2024 - Divača - Ljubljana - Celje - Imeno - Rogatec - Đurmanec - Lepoglava - Varaždin - Čakovec
A SŽ Stadler DMU at Imeno, with Croatia in the distance. This line used to continue to Harmica near Zagreb, but does not any more as it crossed the border so many times so as to render it no longer viable.
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 15 15 Jun 2024 - Čakovec - Središce - Kotoriba - Koprivnica - Osijek
The railway bridge over a very high Mura river between Kotoriba (Croatia) and Murakeresztúr (Hungary) - the line is in working condition but is only used by freight trains.
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 16 16 Jun 2024 - Osijek - Vinkovci - Gunja - Strizivojna-Vrpolje - Osijek
A lonely diesel locomotive stands at Brčko. The lines Gunja-Brčko and Šamac-Strizivojna-Vrpolje have freight trains on the cross border section (Bosnia-Croatia) but no passenger traffic.
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 17 17 Jun 2024 - Osijek - Erdut - Bogojevo - Prigrevica - Apatin - Sombor - Subotica - Röszke - Kikinda
New tracks to Kelebia at the Serbia-Hungary border at the edge of Subotica. Being built by Chinese contractors.
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 18 18 Jun 2024 - Kikinda - Jimbolia - Timișoara - Stamora Moravița - Vršac - Beograd
A CFR Malaxa railbus (built 1935) departs Stamora Moravița towards Timișoara. There is no passenger service on the railway line from Stamora Moravița in Romania to Vršac in Serbia
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 19 19 Jun 2024 - Beograd - Požega - Kraljevo - Rudnica - Kraljevo
Srbija Voz Rudnica-Kraljevo train waits to depart Rudnica. South of Rudnica the line crosses into Kosovo - a border that cannot be crossed by train any more. No freight runs there currently either
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 20 20 Jun 2024 - Kraljevo - Stalać - Niš - Pirot - Dimitrovgrad - Dragoman - Sofia
An elderly couple waits for their train in Stalać, Serbia. This is on the main Beograd-Niš mainline which is in a poor state here, although upgrades are due
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 21 21 Jun 2024 - Sofia - Kjustendil - Kriva Palanka - Skopje
Gyushevo station, finished in 1913, and planned as the border station between Bulgaria and today's North Macedonia. But the line onwards to Kriva Palanka was never built, although with EU money it might now finally be completed by 2030.
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#CrossBorderRail South East Europe Day 22 23 Jun 2024 - Skopje – Hani I Elezit - Skopje
Han I Elezit station - North Macedonia-Kosovo border. The rail infrastructure is being completely re-built here, and a GM-NOHAB diesel locomotive, ex-NSB, built in 1958, stands at the station to be used on works trains
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