Bulgaria - Lines with Obscure or Sparse passenger services
Introduction
This list is based on the timetable dated from 14 December 2014 to 12 December 2015, unless otherwise stated. Standard abbreviations used are explained in the General Information document.
Obscure services
Mezdra Avoiding Line: Mezdra-Jug – Ruska Bjala
[200, 700] (52B3, not shown; ERA1 110B3) BG15/1
This route is used by fast trains between Sofia and Vraca not reversing at Mezdra.
7620 | Sofia - 08:20 Zverino - Vidin | ||
7621 | Vidin - 08:43 Vraca - Sofia |
(Plovdiv –) Filipovo – Skutare
[800] (53A2, not correctly shown; ERA1 110C2) BG15/2
Most trains between Plovdiv and Skutare (and onwards to Mihajlovo) run via a shorter, easterly route at Plovdiv and call at Trakija. A small number run to the west and north of Plovdiv and via Filipovo:
8636 | Varna - 04:45 Belozem - Plovdiv |
(Sofia –) Razmenna – Batanovci (- Radomir)
[600] (52B2, not shown; ERA1 110A3) BG15/3
Owing to engineering work on the direct route table 500 between Sofia and Pernik, a limited number of already diverted services also use this 10 km freight line by-passing Pernik between 25 May and 8 August 2015. A recent traveler advises train 360 from Thessaloniki towards Sofia should be one of them and 5623 southbound is not, but as the BDZ website has numerous temporary timetables for the period, full details of others are not known. Those services diverted but not using this line travel to Pernik-Razpredelit to reverse via the new north to east curve.
Other sparse services
The following lines have few trains (relative to service levels generally in this country) - fewer than four trains each way on at least three days a week - or do not run each weekday:
116 | Septemvri - Dobrinishte |
224 | (Levski -) Lovech - Trojan |
226 | Shumen - Komunari |
228 | (Poveljanovo -) Dobrich - Kardam |
300 | Sofia Sever - Stolnik via Kremikovtzi |
401 | Dimitrovgrad - Momchilgrad |
500 | Dupnica - Bobov Dol |
600 | (Sofia -) Volujak - Pernik via Hrabarsko and from an unknown date also via Pernik-Razpredelit [reverse] |
600 | Kjustendil - Gjueshevo |
882 | Filipovo - Panagjurishte |
900 | (Samuil - ) Isperih -Silistra |
- | Dragoman - Dimitrovgrad (Serbia) |
- | Ruse - Giurgiu Nord (Romania) |
- | Vidin - Calafat (Romania) |
- | Kulata - Promachon (Greece) |
- | Svilengrad - Kapıkule (Turkey) [service temporarily suspended] |
Deletions since previous edition
None