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  • September 17, 2024
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Currently in Sofia and intending to travel to Bucharest on Thursday 19th September 2024. 
At the international ticket office in Sofia railway station we reserved seats on the service as far as Ruse on the border. When we enquired with them about seat reservations for the leg from Ruse to Bucharest they said they didn’t know anything about it.

The Romanian railways website is difficult to work with and appears to indicate there are no places on the train at all that day which seems strange.

Does anybody know how I can book seat reservations on this Ruse to Bucharest train 460 in advance and from Sofia? 

Best answer by pdaly65

Did the trip today and can confirm no check on seat reservations, only on tickets. We had the same carriage all the way from Sofia to Bucharest - no changes. There is a good bit of time spent though passing passport control, first in the Bulgarian side at Ruse-Tarnovo and then in the Romanian side at Giurgiu.

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    • September 17, 2024

    Reservations are not enforced, nobody cares. Just remember to sit in the right carriage at Ruse → some do not cross the border.

    (Source: a friend who did that route last month.)

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    • September 17, 2024

    Thanks!

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    • September 18, 2024

    In my case last year it was another train crossing the border, cross platform change.

    And I confirm: no check for reservations, also not on the stretch Sofia-Ruse.

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    • September 19, 2024

    Did the trip today and can confirm no check on seat reservations, only on tickets. We had the same carriage all the way from Sofia to Bucharest - no changes. There is a good bit of time spent though passing passport control, first in the Bulgarian side at Ruse-Tarnovo and then in the Romanian side at Giurgiu.

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