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The Bosphorus Express, also known as the Trans Balkan Express ((トルコ語:Bosfor Ekspresi)), is an international passenger train running between Istanbul, Turkey and Bucharest, Romania. It runs together with the Balkans Express until Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria, where the later continues to Sofia, Bulgaria. The train is jointly operated by three national railways; the Turkish State Railways, the Bulgarian State Railways, and the Romanian State Railways. The train serves important cities like Istanbul, Edirne, Russe and Bucharest. The Bosphorus Express started service in 1971. ==Stock== The train is pulled by a variety of locomotives in each country. Today the train consists of 3-4 cars usually mixed from the three railways. There are two Couchettes, either TCDD Intercity stock or CFR 59-50 stock, a single coach car, either TCDD or CFR, and a CFR sleeping car. Since the train uses electrified and non-electrified track, locomotives pulling the train also change. From Istanbul, the train is pulled by an E43000 electric locomotive until Kapıkule, where a BDZ class-07 diesel locomotive becomes the motive power. At Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria, the BDZ class-07 de-couples and either a BDZ class-43 or a BDZ class-45 electric locomotive couples onto the train. At Russe, the BDZ electric locomotive changes with a Romanian class-65 diesel locomotive, which pulls the train to Bucharest. The following configurations are typically used today: Bucharest-Russe *CFR Class-65 Locomotive *CFR Couchette *CFR Sleeper *TCDD Couchette Russe-Gorna Oryahovitsa *BDZ Class-43 or BDZ Class-45 Locomotive *CFR Couchette *CFR Sleeper *TCDD Couchette *BDZ Coach Gorna Oryahovitsa-Dimitrovgrad *BDZ Class-43 or BDZ Class-45 Locomotive *CFR Sleeper *TCDD Couchette *BDZ Coach Dimitrovgrad-Kapıkule *BDZ Class-07 Locomotive *TCDD Couchette *CFR Sleeper *TCDD Couchette Kapıkule-İstanbul *TCDD E43000 Locomotive *TCDD Couchette *CFR Sleeper *TCDD Couchette Between Russe and Dimitrovgrad, 1 or 2 BDZ Coaches are added to the train for domestic travel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bosphorus Express」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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