Why Bulgarian Night Trains are surprisingly GREAT!

[@SimplyRailway]

Don't forget to enable closed captions "CC" to enjoy the video in the language of your choice :-)

[@IanCousins-e9u]

Love your videos but I like watching them on my TV which doesn’t have a CC button. Does anyone have an idea of how I can get the subtitles to appear? Thanks

[@thetrain2429]

So glad you liked the night trains in my home country!

[@Kamen4o09]

Yep

[@UnnormaI]

Glad your country gave the german IC coaches a new home. I really like them.

[@senorsoupe]

@@UnnormaI I was just in Bulgaria and we were in the old DB IC coaches from Sofia to Plovdiv and they were in decent condition. A definite upgrade over the old East German rolling stock still used on other intercity routes

[@gizemlikisi6213]

@@senorsoupe was the a/c and announcement device working?

[@senorsoupe]

@@gizemlikisi6213 AC yes, I didn't hear any announcements so I guess no

[@CalinFR]

I'm impressed by the train station in Sofia. Looks modern and decent. Looking forward to the modernisation of Bucharest North in a couple of years

[@ganz3995]

The Sofia station itself looks pretty good, but the area in front of it (square and pedestrian underpasses) is terrible. There is a project to entirely transform the area, really hope to see it materialize.

[@tammo100]

I noticed that the platforms at Sofia station are extremely clean and empty. No ads, no stalls, no color even

[@A-AA-AAA-AAAA-AAAAA-b4u]

@@tammo100 they rebuild the whole station few years ago.

[@samtrak1204]

The room is neat , clean and spacious..and better than anything Amtrak offers for the price.

[@josephr9551]

What a gorgeous purplish sunrise in Burgas!

[@quicktripper]

Train rides have such a relaxing vibe. This trip report really shows how scenic and smooth rail travel can be!

[@StoyanBorov]

My daughter is using this train frequently now I know how it looks. Thank You! The way you explore things reminds me when I played Max Payne for the first time.

[@danielconrad399]

Thibault thank you for resisting the Google algorithm, and no talking! Keep up the good work.

[@Ivo37-e8p]

Happy you liked sleeper trains in my country!

[@Bexcp1805]

The БДЖ website does work to buy internal sleeper tickets (except Dobrich to Povelijanovo). You can't buy tickets to Halkali (Istanbul) online.

[@BaboSorany]

I made a journey in this car from Sofia to Dobrich, Trough coach with locomotive Ludmilla from Poveljanovo

[@ricksipes2026]

like the graphic showing your movement thru the train. nice additon

[@SimplyRailway]

Glad you like it

[@scottyerkes1867]

Very nice sleeping car. Large, big windows, clean,, comfy bed and a breathtaking sunrise. Thanks Thibault.😀👍👌🥰

[@aussiebloke51]

Your compartment looked great. Probably the best hard class compartment I have ever seen - easily the equivalent of first class sleeper on most eastern european trains.

[@RumyankaHristova-b8t]

Пътуването с влаковете на БДЖ е едно приключение. Удобно и можеш да пътуваш до много места.

[@seved6618]

Well done and covered Video mate, once again. Appreciate your effort and really feel your passion in it! Keep going!

[@rasferrastfarian739]

Thank you! BYO soap - got it! 🙂

[@ganz3995]

The Sofia-Burgas line is currently being rebuilt for a speed of 160 km/h. When it's finally complete around 2027 this night train will likely become obsolete as the whole distance will be covered in around 3.5 to 4 hours.

[@robertjewell6146]

Your comment about wishing for a delay for a later arrival matches mine when I take Amtrak's Sunset Limited into Los Angeles. Scheduled arrival is 0530. I'm actually glad for a delayed arrival. But not five hours, as on two occasions. Didn't hurt me because I wasn't going out until the next day, but several passengers were booked on the same-day Coast Starlight, and had to be bussed all day to catch up with their train. Ugh.

[@theobrattinga500]

Great video !!

[@amtrakharry]

another excellent video...I really you showing the consist of the train...welldone...

[@babiyarnazarismaily6207]

Bulgarian here.....I am so tired to fight by writing comments about this graphity on the trains ,even on our new cars that bdz recently bought from germany(100cars)they are used but new for us,I dont know how they allow this people to enter the garage(or depo) where they keep the cars and to paint on them,this cars are bought just a few months ago,also they paint on the buildings arround Sofia,the historic one also,...we struggle and fight for every one of them to be repaired and not to be demolished by the mafia,who dont care about the country heritage, and on the next day it is already messed up by this "culture and art"😉😉.....we even heard on the news,how roma people lurking for the train moving gasoline and when it stop they run to fill their bottles with gasoline without somebody bothering them much

[@andi-9100]

...even these cars are messed up. All of them !!!😢

[@joserivera-yc5rr]

Great video, thanks for sharing

[@daciatravel.647]

Super video!

[@rezaalan3991]

Great trip. The cabin looks good. And yeah it's hauled by the new locomotive.

[@Charlizzie]

Wonderful sleeping car. Glad Thibs ignore the vandalism on trains.

[@petrsovicka]

Latest train science discovery: always take your own soap on board when travelling by train in Bulgaria! Thank you.

[@yogiaol]

Nice train! I had no problems with a German credit card to buy a sleeping car ticket online in the summer. It works.

[@AntenneQC]

J'ai eu peur que ce soient des toilettes turques ! Mais finalement, c'est parfait. Bravo aux chemins de fer bulgares qui montrent l'exemple dans dans les Balkans... de quoi inspirer les voisins. Par contre, en Europe occidentale, il y a OBB Nightjet qui doit être au dessus d'un point de vue confort et qualité du service il me semble ?

[@gizemlikisi6213]

could you try sofia varna train with the new german wagons?

[@gideondark]

Yes please!!

[@King-Pumpkin32]

I miss the English captions in the video, can you add them back from the next video on??

[@RomaniaBallYT_Arsel]

Yeah fr

[@ImpureForce]

There are captions, enable CC. They are simply an add-on now instead of applied in the edit.

[@SimplyRailway]

It's here. You just need to add the closed caption

[@RomaniaBallYT_Arsel]

@@SimplyRailway yeah but it's kinda blocking a bit of the video because of the black in the cc

[@pavlo965]

Bardzo ładny dworze w Sofii

[@Andyoso88]

Nice video! At 2:39, I see some DB / Deutsche Bahn rolling stock, I wonder what they are there for? (Like hired stock, or long distance / night train etc)

[@Итън]

Actually we just got these trains this summer. We are using them as inter city trains until we get our new trains for BDZH, but I can't remember which model but it will be SHKODA.

[@yogiaol]

Bulgaria bought 76 of these wagons this spring and since summer they are already traveling on the Sofia-Varna and Sofia-Burgas routes. There will be enough of these wagons for Sofia-Ruse and Sofia-Vidin. The rolling stock of BDZ is getting better and better. Some of them have now been rebranded beautifully in blue. Video kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6PGXpx_r9mpo9k

[@rogertemple7193]

The night trains in Bulgaria definitely are great thanks. 🚂🚃🚃🇧🇬

[@rzan1700]

The graffiti or not in the passenger car in the thumbnail kind of matches with the car livery, in my opinion, red with red partly

[@fowsitv3668]

Great stuff. Why there is no English of the book night trains in Europe.. thanks

[@LS-Moto]

You should try the Polish sleeper train from Świnoujście to Przemyśl

[@niko_visuals]

So it was really worth the investment in the German wagons, albeit second-hand.

[@Happymali10]

10:25 I'm surprised it says "Schlafwagen" on there in German.

[@moetocafe]

BDZ needs massive renovation, that is decades overdue. I haven't been using trains for the last 10-15 yrs and I don't plan to, unless I see enough progress is made, especially in terms of Safety! Unfortunately, there have been a lot of severe accidents with Bulgarian trains, and a lot of people lost their lives, their homes or were severely injured. I don't consider BDZ to be capable of offering a safe travel and I must say it. If you use it, it's at your own risk. Just looking at the graffiti on the train cars tells me - not enough progress have been made so far, although I see some improvement in the video. And the price is high - 66 BGN is a lot - and it takes double the time, compared to travel by bus or car. I love trains and would love to see the company renovate and bring their services to 21st century standards, but for the moment I really can't recommend using BDZ.

[@kirokirov-lu8cs]

It's great that you like , but in the 80s, BDZ was better than now. Now there are many fewer stations and lines. It's a pity, but nothing has been done for 40 years, everything is the same

[@andrewclark8630]

These look very similar to Turkish carriages - did you see the TVS logo anywhere?

[@pronosticosdeportivos9517]

There are trains from Belgrade to Sofia? I'm planning a trip to the Balkans and I'm thinking a lot to finish in Belgrade or to add Sofia, Plovdiv and end in Istanbul! There are trains from Plovdiv to Istanbul?

[@ganz3995]

Currently not. The Belgrade-Sofia train stopped around 2020. Hopefully it will return in a few years when track reconstruction between Nis and Sofia is complete. There is a Sofia-Istanbul night train via Plovdiv.

[@matematika1000]

Currently the line between Nis and the border with Bulgaria is under construction and should be finished in 2 or three years. The reconstruction between Belgrade and Nis is supposed to start soon and become a high speed line around 2028, because it's in a bad and slow condition right now.

[@bellatordei3440]

Бахти лукса, уе 😳

[@andi-9100]

100% Bulgaria. All messed up with grafitti all over, even on cars running since 5 days after refurbishment 😢

[@arandominternetperson4462]

I didn't know we had any good trains. The ones I've used are Shumen>Varna, Varna>Shumen. The "Passenger Trains" are graced by God. 1960's trains, horrible condition. The train has to be restarted while moving 5-6 times. It's a horror attraction basically.

[@furakkko]

❤

[@johnplays9654]

I guess the Schlafenwagen is quite neat but the better choice is taking a bus because it's not as expensive and it takes like 4-5 hours.

[@ivanarnaudov294]

👌🇧🇬✌️

[@ufuk100000]

It is nice to see Turkish cars work in Bulgaria well. Thank you for sharing. These cars had interesting story, I remember. BDZ made a tender for 30 sleeping cars. After Turkish company TÜVASAŞ won the tender for 30 sleeping car, BDZ cancelled the tender and decided to make a new tender. Then Turkish company went to Bulgarian court and the court decided that TÜVASAŞ was right and BDZ had to buy these cars.

[@rossengeorgiew9589]

these are german, brother.

[@ufuk100000]

@@rossengeorgiew9589 sleeping cars are Turkish

[@rossengeorgiew9589]

@@ufuk100000 dunno bro, but with the very fist second you can read not very well over painted German livery saying "SCHLAFWAGEN"...

[@estqwerty]

can not belive it - its nice that you arrived alive. read some bulgarian train news.

[@yogiaol]

What? No one is dead in bulgarian trains.

[@estqwerty]

@@yogiaol Plovdiv Train Journey Rescued by Passengers' Push After Breakdown

[@MartinBrez]

Why is your book in French and German, yet your KZbin channel is in English?

[@ferroviestazioni]

🎉😊🎉

[@Happymali10]

They bought IC1-cars to "modernize"? Do they know that IC1-coaches can be 50 years old?^^

[@blagoypenev3432]

Unreal but again is Sofia everything goes to capital not much for others cities.

[@barbaralcharles]

No coffee?

[@nigoraraximova6110]

Задача 19

[@julikb]

преди години съм пътувал с такъв ,но тази пътувах със супер мизерен.Скърцаше нещо все едно ще се разпадне.Много зле.Не знам какъв се води този ? Бизнес клас ли е ? Има ли изобщо възможност да си резервираш места ?

[@yogiaol]

Онлайн се купуват от сайта на БДЖ 30 дни по-рано ги пускат.

[@ГеоргиНончев-ч5з]

Sofia Burgas train is better than Sofia-Varna and Delhi-Mumbai

[@lassepeterson2740]

Bulgarian trains are great because they are out dated European trains which used to be better . Danish trains stink , most German trains do now too . Dutch trains are worse . France is bad . Switzserland is still good tho . It's probably mostly due to low labour costs which passenger railways have to bear .

[@ImpureForce]

Why 'surprisingly'? 🤔

[@CalinFR]

Because the rest of the rolling stock in Bulgaria is mostly crap

[@gizemlikisi6213]

@@CalinFR entirely crap. the worst in entire europe

[@yogiaol]

@@CalinFR Not the rest! Since this summer there are neu ex-DB 76 vagons. They already travel with most trains from Sofia to Burgas and from Sofia to Varna. The number of newly purchased wagons is sufficient to cover the Sofia-Ruse and Sofia-Vidin routes too, where they will be put into operation in the coming months.

[@CalinFR]

@@yogiaol that is good news. Glad to hear it's improving

[@Andrij_Kozak]

Most likely decommissioned night train from a German speaking country. I can read Schlafwagen there.

[@droehner23]

No, it's not. These carriages were newly built for Bulgarian Railways. It is customary to write the term "Sleeping Car" in various languages externally.

[@imatams]

time to mix it up a little bit, too many broadly similar night train videos recently!

[@mikemainer3009]

Despite what this video is trying to promote, I would not be comfortable traveling on any train, Bulgarian or not, that is so heavily vandalized by anti-social "street artist" criminals. Makes you wonder about the quality of maintenace on such trains and what other problems that the Bulgarians are ignoring on these trains.

[@endless_puns]

BDZ is a highly corrupt and terribly mismanaged company, only kept afloat by a handful of dedicated employees who love their jobs (though the vast majority of employees does not care one bit). A lot of the network hasn't been upgraded or adapted to modern standards. Having grafitti on the trains is the least of the problems. My father has showed me videos of lose tracks he's seen where the track is not properly attached to the wood below, to name as an example. So yeah, it is pretty bad.

[@Smartness_itself]

Too expensive.

[@hj8272]

What is this garbage? An advertisement for light bulbs? Filthy trains.

[@ogi_mihailov]

please be kinder bc YOU dont even know the expireince ! why so rude? Maybe you hate bc you dont like Bulgaria? And what is your rudnnes going to do? NOTHING! Think before you speak!!!

[@samtrak1204]

At least the graffiti doesn't cover the windows like commercial train wraps I hate like the plague.

[@AquariumRandomVideo2]

The graffiti artists heard all the (justified) hate about covered windows on old trains and improved their designs :) I noticed that too