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Bulgarian State Railways locomotives 142–150 provided motive power on Bulgaria's first railway, opened in 1866 to connect Ruse on the River Danube with Varna on the Black Sea. Ordered from England shortly after the opening of the railway, they were intended as mixed-traffic locomotives to supplement the line's original locomotive fleet.
After the opening of the Danube Bridge in 1954, a new grand Stalinist Central Railway Station was envisioned for the city of Ruse. The new station opened in late 1955 temporarily becoming the biggest on the Balkan peninsula featuring three platforms, with four tracks and one passing track. The Ruse station sign Inside the station
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]
On the Metro, in the tunnels near the station at Park Kultury, built in 1935, is starting to structurally fail.One tunnel night crawler, Sergeitch (Sergey Sosnowski), sees water leaking into the tunnel where it runs underneath the Moscow River and informs the assistant station master (Michael Fateev), who mocks the old man for worrying about it, saying it is only groundwater.
A BDZ Desiro train Map of Bulgaria's railroad network. In 2005 Bulgaria had some 6,238 kilometers of open access track owned by the state company "National Company Railway Infrastructure", including a 125 kilometers long 760 mm narrow gauge railway – the Septemvri-Dobrinishte narrow gauge line and 4,316 km were considered main lines. [12]
The Metro station Central Railway (Bulgarian: Метростанция „Централна жп гара“) serves Sofia Central Station on the Sofia Metro in Bulgaria.It opened on 31 August 2012.
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]
Severen Tsentralen Planning Region (Bulgarian: Северен централен район за планиране) is a planning region of Bulgaria, encompassing five Bulgarian provinces: Ruse, Veliko Tarnovo, Gabrovo, Targovishte and Razgrad. The region is mostly inhabited by Bulgarians, Turkish and Romani people.