Classic route
Varna–Burgas railway
Varna → Burgas · Bulgaria
Begun in 1916, abandoned, and finished in the war: Karnobat to Komunari opened in 1942 and the last stretch down the Kamchia valley in 1943, joining Bulgaria’s two Black Sea cities directly.
- Distance
- 212 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 47 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmVarna +3
- 153 kmKarnobat +1
- 212 kmBurgas
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 18815896: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 8 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 30150
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Varna–Burgas railway?
The Varna–Burgas railway runs 212 km from Varna to Burgas.
How long does the Varna–Burgas railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 4 h 30 min for the 212 km. That is an average of 47 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Varna–Burgas railway?
BDŽ, with R 30150.
How old is the Varna–Burgas railway?
The line has been in service since 1943. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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