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Bulgarian railways begins additional train service to the coast for the 2025 summer season

June 10, 2025June 10, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ, tourism

During the 2025 summer season, Bulgarian state railways BDZ will ensure the daily movement of additional fast trains with mandatory

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways organising steam train trip on June 22

June 9, 2025June 9, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ, tourism

Bulgarian state railways BDZ is organising an special steam engine-drawn train trip from Sofia to Vakarel and back on June

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways is offering a steam train trip on June 1

May 21, 2025May 21, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

Bulgarian state railways BDZ is offering an excursion on a special train drawn by a steam engine on the occasion

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways offering excursions drawn by its oldest restored steam engine

March 31, 2025March 31, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ, tourism

Bulgarian state railways BDZ is offering excursions from Sofia to Bankya and back on April 12 on a train drawn

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways begins putting ticket vending machines into operation

February 18, 2025February 18, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

Bulgarian state railways’ BDZ Passenger Transport is putting into operation ticket vending machines, which will provide a faster and more

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways offering retro train trips on March 1

February 18, 2025February 18, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

Bulgarian state railways BDZ, in partnership with the Bulgarian Academy of Science’s National Ethnographic Museum, is offering trips on a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways announces another Christmas steam train trip

December 3, 2024December 3, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

In addition to the Christmas steam train trips it has already announced, Bulgarian state railways BDZ is organising another one,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways offers Christmas steam train rides

November 29, 2024November 29, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

For another year, Bulgarian state railways BDZ is organising Christmas train rides with a steam engine to fill young and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria signs 128M leva deal for five more Škoda electric locomotives

November 7, 2024November 7, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

Bulgarian caretaker Transport Minister Krassimira Stoyanova and Škoda Transportation and Škoda Vagonka board chairman and CEO Petr Novotny signed on

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