Festive Steam Trains Return: Christmas Journeys Across Bulgaria
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More Facts about Reforms in Bulgarian State Railways BDZ
Smiles | October 13, 2012, Saturday // 21:07
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A small provincial train station somewhere in Northeastern Bulgaria.
The head of the train station goes to the only passenger waiting on the platform, and tells him,
"It's no use waiting. The 3:30 train no longer stops at this station."
"Really?! Have they changed the train schedule again, those ********?!"
"No, I loaned BGN 100 to the locomotive engineer..."
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