🇧🇬 Operator
Train routes operated by BDŽ
6 routes · classic 4 · scenic 2
BDŽ runs 6 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 1,684 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the BDŽ Fast Train Varna at 543 km; the fastest is the BDŽ Fast Train Varna, running up to 130 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1866.
The company itself dates to 1888, filed on Wikidata as a holding company. What this page says about the company comes from BDŽ's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q610143 ↗
Open the world railway map →- Routes here
- 6
- Total length
- 1,684 km
- Countries
- Bulgaria
- Longest
- BDŽ Fast Train Varna · 543 km
- Oldest line here
- 1866
- Company founded
- 1888
- Type
- holding company
- Fastest
- BDŽ Fast Train Varna · 130 km/h
Classic (4)
- BDŽ Fast Train Varna
Crosses the Balkan range and the Danubian plain to Varna, Bulgaria’s summer capital on the Black Sea coast.
Wikipedia (BG) ↗ - BDŽ Fast Train Burgas
Runs via Plovdiv and Stara Zagora to Burgas, the port at the heart of Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea beaches.
- BDŽ Fast Train Plovdiv
Bulgaria’s busiest intercity corridor, being rebuilt for 200 km/h, tying the capital to Plovdiv, one of Europe’s oldest cities.
Wikipedia (BG) ↗ - Ruse–Kaspichan railway
The first railway ever built in Bulgaria, opened on 7 November 1866 from the Danube quays at Ruse toward the Black Sea — still line 9 of the national network.
Scenic (2)
- Sofia–Vidin
Up the Iskar gorge, which is the reason to take it: the river cuts a canyon north out of Sofia through Svoge and Lakatnik to Mezdra, then Vratsa and the plain to the Danube at Vidin.
- Rhodope Narrow-Gauge
Bulgaria’s last 760 mm line threads 35 tunnels up to Avramovo, the highest railway station in the Balkans at 1,267 m.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does BDŽ run?
6 of the routes in this atlas are BDŽ services, covering 1,684 km across 1 country (Bulgaria). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest BDŽ train?
The BDŽ Fast Train Varna, Sofia to Varna, at up to 130 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 7 h 30 min over 543 km.
Does BDŽ run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 6 BDŽ routes listed here are daytime services.
When was BDŽ founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1888, and files it as a holding company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1866 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries BDŽ runs in
- 🇧🇬 Train routes in Bulgaria 9 routes