Trivia - Bus routes which change countries

[alex397]

• Bus route 983 runs from Frankfurt (Germany) to Slubice (Poland) and is operated by the German based Stadtverkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt (SVF).

I travelled on this about 2 years ago. I walked across the border, but caught the bus back. Interestingly, if I remember correctly, the Frankfurt day ticket was also valid on the 983 in Poland. I was expecting to have to pay a special fare.
My late afternoon journey back on an articulated bus was very busy, mostly with German shoppers, presumably with Poland having cheaper prices.
Like other places mentioned, Frankfurt/Słubice used to be one city, but the border cuts through on the River Oder.

 

[Djgr]

The good news is that a local bus curently runs from Poprad (Slovakia) to Zakopane (Poland) fout times a day. The bad news is that I was the only one on it.

 

[Christian Schm]

It being Baarle-Nassau/Hertog, I thought there were also stops where you cross a border by stepping off the bus.

Not sure if this counts as a border, but the pole of this bus stop is in England (and the flag & timetable case are unmistakenly Gloucestershire's). But any bus that actually stops at that stop would be in Wales.

 

[U-Bahnfreund]

Here's a fairly comprehensive list of cross-border public transport to and from Germany https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenzüberschreitender_Personennahverkehr_in_Deutschland

The 231 bus from Rastatt to Soufflenheim will soon be replaced by an hourly (weekend two-hourly) X31 bus going all the way to Haguenau. Looking forward to that, will be much more useful

 

[The exile]

The most special ones are probably the 137 and 375 to Baarle-Nassau which cross the Dutch - Belgian border twice. Their predecessor 132 used to cross it four times. Some Belgian buses do the same, but I don't know the exact route numbers.

It being Baarle-Nassau/Hertog, I thought there were also stops where you cross a border by stepping off the bus.

Given the nature of Baarle-Nassau, managing only to cross the border twice must be a triumph for the route-planners.

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I travelled on this about 2 years ago. I walked across the border, but caught the bus back. Interestingly, if I remember correctly, the Frankfurt day ticket was also valid on the 983 in Poland. I was expecting to have to pay a special fare.
My late afternoon journey back on an articulated bus was very busy, mostly with German shoppers, presumably with Poland having cheaper prices.
Like other places mentioned, Frankfurt/Słubice used to be one city, but the border cuts through on the River Oder.

Go back a few years and the large supermarkets in Slubice/Zgorzelec all had free shoppers’ buses into Germany. I would imagine they were particularly busy on Saturday evenings and Sundays.