Classic route
Bucharest–Sofia
Bucharest → Sofia · Romania · Bulgaria
- Distance
- 527 km
- Fastest time
- 9 h 55 min
- Average speed
- 53 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- CFR Călători · BDŽ
- Train
- CFR · BDŽ through coaches
- Countries
- Romania, Bulgaria
- In service since
- 1954
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Two capitals in a day: south from Bucharest to the Danube, over the 1954 Friendship Bridge at Giurgiu into Ruse, then across the Bulgarian plain by Gorna Oryahovitsa and Pleven to Sofia.
How this line was checked
- Line traced onto the OpenStreetMap rail graph
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