Svilengrad Railway Station
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The Svilengrad railway station is the last station before the
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border. The station was built in 1874 by the
Chemins de fer Orientaux The Chemins de fer Orientaux (English: ''Oriental Railway''; Turkish: ''Rumeli Demiryolu'' or ''İstanbul-Viyana Demiryolu'') (reporting mark: CO) was an Ottoman railway company operating in Rumelia (the European part of the Ottoman Empire, c ...
as part of the İstanbul-Vienna Railway. Regional trains to Dimitrovgrad as well as the
Bosphorus Express The Bosphorus Express, also known as the Trans Balkan Express ( tr, Bosfor Ekspresi), is an international passenger train running between Istanbul, Turkey and Bucharest, Romania. It runs together with the Istanbul-Sofia Express as far as Dimitr ...
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and the
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to
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via
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, both from
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