The Bulgarian Railway Company (BRC, bg, Българска железопътна компания АД, translit=Bulgarska zhelezoputna kompaniya AD) is the first privately held
railfreight
Railfreight was a sector of British Rail responsible for all freight operations on the British network. The division was created in 1982 when BR sought to assign particular stock and management to the evolving requirements of freight traffic ...
company to obtain a license in
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
.
Control of BRC is shared by five Bulgarian companies and one
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...
n company,
Grup Feroviar Român
Grup Feroviar Român, or simply GFR, is the largest private railway company in Romania and one of the largest in South Eastern Europe. Founded in 2001, the company owns freight operations in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece Serbia, Ukraine, Moldo ...
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...
. 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 Ukr ...
, 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
The British Rail Class 87 is a type of electric locomotive designed and built by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) between 1973 and 1975. A total of thirty-six locomotives were constructed, to work passenger and freight services over the ...
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
Căile Ferate Române (; abbreviated as the CFR) is the state railway carrier of Romania. As of 2014, the railway network of Romania consists of , of which (37.4%) are electrified. The total track length is , of which (38.5%) are electrifie ...
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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