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Bulgarian railways to inaugurate regular Plovdiv – Edirne train on May 24

May 18, 2019May 21, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ, Plovdiv, tourism, Turkey

Bulgarian state railways BDZ is to launch a regular train service at weekends and on public holidays between Plovdiv and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways offering Sofia-Bankya steam train excursion on May 18

May 9, 2019May 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

Bulgarian state railways BDZ is offering a steam train excursion on May 18, with the train pulled by the 1931

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways to sell advance train tickets for upcoming holidays as of April 10

April 9, 2019April 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

Bulgarian state railways BDZ will begin on April 10 the pre-sale of tickets for train journeys on the upcoming holidays,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways: March 31 change to daylight saving will affect schedules of 29 trains

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

The change to daylight savings time in the early morning of March 31 will affect the schedules of 29 trains,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian state railways to provide extra places on trains for March long weekend

February 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

Bulgarian state railways BDZ has announced that it will provide more than 8000 additional seats in trains travelling on the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian state railways begins putting overhauled passenger carriages into service

February 19, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

Bulgarian state railways BDZ said on February 19 that it was gradually putting into service renovated passenger carriages. As a

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Bulgaria 

Locomotive that pulled Hitrino disaster train derails at Bulgaria’s Plovdiv railway station

February 16, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ, Plovdiv

A locomotive that pulled the train that exploded in the Bulgarian village of Hitrino in December 2016 derailed in Plovdiv

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Bulgaria 

EU grants 293M euro from Cohesion Fund to upgrade Bulgaria’s Plovdiv – Bourgas railway connection

November 15, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ, Bourgas, Plovdiv

The European Union is investing more than 293 million euro from the Cohesion Fund in a more modern, faster and safer railway

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Bulgaria’s competition watchdog halts 675M leva state railways passenger trains tender

November 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Commission (CPC) has ruled as unlawful a public procurement by state railways BDZ for the

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