The Bulgarian Railway Company (BRC, bg, Българска железопътна компания АД, translit=Bulgarska zhelezoputna kompaniya AD) is the first privately held
railfreight company to obtain a license in
Bulgaria.
Control of BRC is shared by five Bulgarian companies and one
Romanian company,
Grup Feroviar Român Bucharest. BRC's chairman is
Vladimir Dunchev
Vladimir may refer to:
Names
* Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name
* Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name
* Volodymyr for the Uk ...
, who was formerly the general director of the
Bulgarian State Railway Company
The Bulgarian State Railways ( bg, Български държавни железници, translit=Balgarski darzhavni zheleznitsi, abbreviated as БДЖ, BDZ or BDŽ) are Bulgaria's state railway company and the largest railway carrier in the co ...
(BDZ).
On April 13, 2005, Bulgaria's transport ministry awarded the first private license to haul freight over the nation's rail network to the Bulgarian Railroad Company.
The BRC locomotive fleet includes
class 87 locomotives exported from the UK.
Locomotive Fleet
BRC operate a fleet of second hand locomotives:
Class 40
Electric locomotives
*40-0177-2
*40-0817-3
*40-1001-3
*40-1013-8
*40-1018-7
*40-1019-5
*40-1020-7
*40-1022-9
Class 87
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Formerly British Rail Class 87 electric locomotives
*87 003 - 0
*87 004 - 8
*87 006 - 3
*87 007 - 1
*87 008 - 9
*87 010 - 5
*87 012 - 1
*87 013 - 9
*87 014 - 7
*87 019 - 6
*87 020 - 4
*87 022 - 0
*87 026 - 1
*87 028 - 7
*87 029 - 5
*87 033 - 7
*87 034 - 5
Class 60
Former Căile Ferate Române diesel locomotives
*60 1522 - 6
*60 1524 - 2
Class 52
*52 - 240
References
* Bulgarian News Network (April 13, 2005),
Bulgaria Licenses Private Railroad Carrier
'. Retrieved April 13, 2005.
Railway companies of Bulgaria
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