Bulgaria rail industry news – Page 3
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NewsSmartron locomotive offered for Bulgaria and Romania
Smartron electric locomotive. EUROPE: Siemens Mobility now offers its Smartron electric locomotives pre-configured for use in Bulgaria and Romania. The Smartron was launched in 2018 as a budget version of Siemens’ Vectron modular locomotive. It is offered in standard specification including the Capri Blue livery, offering freight ...
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Country profileGreece, Bulgaria, Albania, & North Macedonia- country map
Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, & North Macedonia: national rail network map
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NewsSofia resignalling contract
BULGARIA: Infrastructure manager NRIC has awarded the ERTMS CA Voluyak DZZD consortium of local company AER and CAF Signalling a contract to modernise signalling and telecoms on the 12 km route from Sofia to Obelya and Voluyak. Announcing the contract win on August 1, CAF Signalling said this ...
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NewsIkea furnishing for BDZ sleeping cars
BULGARIA: As part of its onboard advertising programme, national operator BDZ has worked with furniture and household goods company Ikea to fit sleeping cars with ‘colourful accessories giving the compartments home comforts and an additional summer mood’. The cars with Ikea furnishings are now operating on services from the capital ...
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NewsBulgaria launches fleet renewal plan ahead of market liberalisation
test1 BULGARIA: National operator BDZ needs to focus on service quality, sustainability and long-term performance in order to ‘convince the public that it is developing in an upward trend’ and remain the state’s main passenger service provider when the market is liberalised in 2024, Minister of ...
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NewsEU funds Plovdiv – Burgas modernisation
BULGARIA: The European Union is providing more than €293m from the Cohesion Fund to support modernisation of the 293 km line from Plovdiv to the Black Sea port of Burgas. The route forms part of the Orient/East Med TEN-T corridor connecting central and southeastern Europe. The scope includes raising lines ...
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NewsBulgaria – Turkey piggyback service avoids border delays
EUROPE: PIMK Rail dispatched its first weekly freight service from the Plovdiv intermodal hub in Bulgaria to Çerkezköy in Turkey on March 2. A Siemens Vectron locomotive hauled 17 articulated piggyback wagons carrying lorry trailers, which were able to avoid the long delays to road traffic which can occur at ...
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NewsBulgaria completes upgrading of routes to the border
BULGARIA: Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Minister of Transport Ivaylo Moskovski attended a ceremony on May 15 to mark the completion of a 10-year project to enhance the route from Plovdiv to the Greek and Turkish borders near Svilengrad. Guests travelled on a special train which reached 205 km/h between ...
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NewsFree rides celebrate opening of Sofia metro Line 2
BULGARIA: The first phase of Sofia metro Line 2 opened on August 31, with President Rosen Plevneliev, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso attending the celebrations. Musical entertainment was laid on at the National Palace of Culture, with the public able to ...
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NewsPlovdiv – Svilengrad integrated control centre opens
BULGARIA: A centralised traffic control centre has been opened in Plovdiv, marking the latest stage in the long-running modernisation of the main line to Svilengrad, close to the Turkish border. At an inauguration ceremony on July 10, Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski said the dispatch facility was the ...
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NewsSofia metro opens Tsarigradsko Shose extension
BULGARIA: A 2·1 km extension of the Sofia metro from Mladost 1 to Mladost 3 and Tsarigradsko Shose was inaugurated by Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy on April 25. The extension has been built by the Metro Mladost Union joint venture, ...
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Bulgaria places upgrade contracts
FIVE CONTRACTS have been awarded by the Bulgarian Ministry of Transport for upgrading work on the rail network. Astaldi of Italy has been selected for a €163m project to reconstruct and electrify the 143 km international corridor between Plovdiv and the Turkish border at Svilengrad. This work is expected to ...
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NewsBulgaria's ambitious plans hinge on reform
Krasimir Krastanov reports on a strategic plan designed to bring about modernisation of the Bulgarian rail network
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Bulgarian modernisation programme aims to win back lost traffic
Split into infrastructure and operating businesses in January 2002, Bulgaria's national railway must secure its future in a competitive market environment
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Bulgaria upgrades
INVITATIONS to tender are expected to be issued in September for upgrading the first 38 km of Bulgarian State Railway’s main line from Plovdiv to Svilengrad and the frontier crossings into Turkey and eastern Greece. Tendering for the remainder of the line will follow in December. Phase 1 between Plovdiv ...
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Plovdiv - Svilengrad upgrading
BULGARIAN State Railway is to call tenders shortly for upgrading of its 156 km main line serving the southeast of the country, at an estimated cost of US$340m. Modernisation of the Plovdiv - Svilengrad route is due to start early next year for completion by June 2005. The line forms ...
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