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In 2023 Bulgaria announced it would buy €1.4b of rolling stock with EU provided funds. [5] Begun in 2019, by 2023 a rail connection with Istanbul was established allowing trains to run at a speed of 200 km/h. The double line has a capacity for 10 million passengers and 3.6 million tonnes of freight. [6]
A map of railway infrastructure in Bulgaria. This is a list of railway lines in Bulgaria focusing primarily on intercity train lines. In 2019, there were 4,071 kilometres (2,530 mi) of standard gauge railways, of which 67% were electrified. [1] Narrow gauge lines amount to 125 kilometres (78 mi). [2]
By the arrival of the twenty-first century, Bulgaria's railway network was amongst the most dense of all Eastern European nations, having a total track length of 6,938km, 148 tunnels, 483 level crossings, and 1,016 bridges. [3] Roughly 67% of all track in Bulgaria was electrified.
On 1 January 2002, the new Railway Transport Act entered into force, passed by the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, according to which the National Company Bulgarian State Railways were split into two separate enterprises – a railway carrier (Bulgarian State Railways EAD) and an infrastructure enterprise (Railway Infrastructure National Company)
It comprises both road and rail routes. Both commence on the Italian Adriatic coast at Bari or Brindisi, with a ferry crossing to Durrës in Albania . From there the routes cross the southern Balkans into Bulgaria and thence to Varna , on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast .
Rail crossing León-Gijón Spain: Cantabrian Mountains: La Perruca tunnel: 1,278 m (4,193 ft) 1,668 mm: No Rail crossing Sulmona-Isernia [7] Italy: Apennines: Rivisondoli-Pescocostanzo 1,268 m (4,160 ft) 1,435 mm: No Rail crossing Septemvri-Dobrinishte: Bulgaria: Between Rhodope and Rila Mountains Avramovo: 1,267 m (4,157 ft) 3.2% 760 mm: No ...
In 2014, Bulgarian airports served 7,728,612 passengers and handled 23,101 tons of goods. [6] In the past aviation compared with road and railroad transport used to be a minor mode of freight movement, and only 860,000 passengers used Bulgarian airlines in 2001. [9] In 2013 Bulgaria had 68 airports, 57 of which had paved runways. [10]
As traffic on the road crossing or the rail crossing increases, safety features are increased accordingly. More heavily trafficked crossings have "automatic warning devices" (AWDs), with alternately flashing red lights to warn automobile drivers and a bell to warn pedestrians.