In 1956, the GDR Travel Agency introduced a night train on the connection between Dresden and Varna on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. On the initiative of the FDJ, the night train "Touristenexpress" (abbreviated "TOUREX") was created in 1961, which from the summer of 1963 was used as a special train for travel agencies. From the seventies "TOUREX" also began the transport of wagons for the transport of DDm cars. The train departed from Dresden-Neustadt and carried via Bad Schandau, Decin, Olomouc (or Brno), Sturovo, Szob, Budapest, Szolnok, Biharkeresztes, Episkopia Bihor, Cluj, Brasov, Bucharest, Giurgiu Nord and Ruse (or Negru Voda and Kardam) to Varna. Most of the time it was driven without scheduled stays. For city trips, however, there were also day stays in Budapest or other places a.
