Bulgaria Trip Day Two. 25 Desiro 2-car DMU sets were delivered by BDZ from 2005. They were ordered basically to work the various non-electrified passenger lines over across the system to replace locomotive hauled stock. Unfortunately, they have had a poor level of availability with regular breakdowns.

Three dead-end branches in the Pleven and Levski area are being close together utilise one pool of these units. On 25 September 2012 I covered all three branches. Ideally I would have liked to have not ridden in the newer trains. 3 out of 4 sets were working and one (previous photo) was a replacement hauled train.