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A week long cultural tour using the trains in Bulgaria. There was limited rail content in the trip, but we did have a special train Swiss built 2-8-2 01.23 from Sofia - Mezdra on a train former of three former German “Halberstadt” built carriages. Later we continued from Mezdra to Gorna Orjahovica and then to Veliko Tarnovo. Two days later we went from Veliko Tarnovo - Tulovo and then to Kazanlak. Later we picked Burgas - Sofia train with cargo sector electric 46.012 and as there was engineering work west of Karlovo the train was diverted via Plovdiv which suited us fine as that was our destination. Final rail journey was from Plovdiv - Septemvri where we changed for the narrow gauge to Dobrinishte. A group of us had a visit to the BZK depot in Sofia to see the 87s before I made my way to Spain to assist on another tour