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Bulgarian State Railways

Index Bulgarian State Railways

The Bulgarian State Railways (Български държавни железници, Balgarski darzhavni zheleznitsi, abbreviated as БДЖ, BDZ or BDŽ) are Bulgaria's state railway company and the largest railway carrier in the country, established as an entity in 1885. [1]

75 relations: Avramovo, Blagoevgrad Province, Škoda Works, Bansko, BDŽ class 75, BDŽ class 77, BDŽ Tovarnni Prevosi, Beloslav, Belovo, Bulgaria, British Rail Class 87, British Rail Engineering Limited, Bulgaria, Calafat, Chornomorsk, Constantinople, Crewe Works, Croatia, Danube, DB Class V 60, Diesel locomotive, Diesel multiple unit, Diesel–electric transmission, Dimitrovgrad, Serbia, DR Class 130 family, Edirne, Electroputere, FAUR, Ganz Works, Giurgiu, Greece, Henschel & Son, Hertz, International Union of Railways, Kalotina, Kambarka Engineering Works, Kapıkule, Kardam, Dobrich Province, KONČAR Group, Kulata, List of BDŽ locomotives, List of UIC country codes, Luhanskteplovoz, Makedonski Železnici, Maurice de Hirsch, National Railway Infrastructure Company, Negru Vodă, Constanța, Niš, Orestiada, Overhead line, Promachonas, Rail transport in Romania, ..., Rail transport in Turkey, Railway Gazette International, Railways of Greece, Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca, Ruse, Bulgaria, Septemvri, Septemvri–Dobrinishte narrow-gauge line, Serbia, Serbian Railways, Siemens, Siemens Desiro, Simeonovgrad, Simmering-Graz-Pauker, Sofia, Soviet Union, State-owned enterprise, Svilengrad, Switcher, Thessaloniki, TU7 diesel locomotive, Varna, Vidin, Volkseigener Betrieb, William Ewart Gladstone, 25 kV AC railway electrification. Expand index (25 more) »

Avramovo, Blagoevgrad Province

Avramovo (Аврамово) is a village in Yakoruda Municipality, in Blagoevgrad Province, in southwestern Bulgaria.

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Škoda Works

The Škoda Works (Škodovy závody) was one of the largest European industrial conglomerates of the 20th century, founded by Czech engineer Emil Škoda in 1859 in Plzeň, then in the Kingdom of Bohemia, Austrian Empire.

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Bansko

Bansko (Банско) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, located at the foot of the Pirin Mountains at an elevation of 927 m above sea level.

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BDŽ class 75

The first 760 mm track-side diesel locomotives of the BDŽ were built by the German company Henschel & Sohn, Kassel, and were put into operation in Bulgaria in the beginning of 1966.

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BDŽ class 77

The locomotives were built and delivered by the Romanian plant "23 August" (now FAUR) - Bucharest under technical conditions of BDZ.

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BDŽ Tovarnni Prevosi

BDZ Tovarnni Prevosi is the national rail freight business of Bulgaria, part of BDZ.

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Beloslav

Beloslav (Белослав) is a small industrial town in Varna Province, Northeastern Bulgaria, located 19 km away to the west from Varna downtown and Bulgarian Black Sea coast.

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Belovo, Bulgaria

Belovo (Bulgarian Белово) is a town in South West Bulgaria.

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British Rail Class 87

The British Rail Class 87 is a type of electric locomotive built in 1973–75 by British Rail Engineering Limited.

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British Rail Engineering Limited

British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL), incorporated on 31 October 1969, was the railway systems engineering subsidiary of British Rail until the design and building of trains in the UK was privatised in 1989.

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Bulgaria

Bulgaria (България, tr.), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, tr.), is a country in southeastern Europe.

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Calafat

Calafat is a city in Dolj County, Romania, on the river Danube, opposite the Bulgarian city of Vidin, to which it is linked by the Calafat-Vidin Bridge, opened in 2013.

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Chornomorsk

Chornomorsk (Чорномо́рськ), formerly Illichivsk (translit. Illichivs'k,, Ilyichyovsk) is a city in the Odessa Oblast (province) of south-western Ukraine, dependent on the Port of Chornomorsk.

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Constantinople

Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis; Constantinopolis) was the capital city of the Roman/Byzantine Empire (330–1204 and 1261–1453), and also of the brief Latin (1204–1261), and the later Ottoman (1453–1923) empires.

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Crewe Works

Crewe railway works is a British railway engineering facility built in 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway.

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Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea.

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Danube

The Danube or Donau (known by various names in other languages) is Europe's second longest river, after the Volga.

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DB Class V 60

The DB Class V 60 is a German diesel locomotive operated by the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) and later, the Deutsche Bahn AG (DB AG), which is used particularly for shunting duties, but also for hauling light goods trains.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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Diesel multiple unit

A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines.

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Diesel–electric transmission

A diesel–electric transmission, or diesel–electric powertrain, is used by a number of vehicle and ship types for providing locomotion.

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Dimitrovgrad, Serbia

Dimitrovgrad (Димитровград, Цариброд, Tsaribrod) is a town and municipality located in the Pirot District of southeastern Serbia.

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DR Class 130 family

The DR 130 family of locomotives comprises the DR Class 130 (DBAG Class 230), DR Class 131 (DBAG Class 231), DR Class 132 (DBAG Class 232 as well as Classes 233, 234 and 241 produced through modifications) and DR Class 142 (DBAG Class 242). They were produced in the Soviet Union in Luhansk, Ukraine from the 1970s onwards, and were imported into the GDR. After the reunification of Germany the Deutsche Bahn (DBAG) inherited them and continue to make use of them mainly as heavy freight locomotives. Nicknamed ''Ludmilla'', over 700 units were produced between 1970 and 1982. Two of these machines are classed as works vehicles with the designation Class 754.

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Edirne

Edirne, historically known as Adrianople (Hadrianopolis in Latin or Adrianoupolis in Greek, founded by the Roman emperor Hadrian on the site of a previous Thracian settlement named Uskudama), is a city in the northwestern Turkish province of Edirne in the region of East Thrace, close to Turkey's borders with Greece and Bulgaria.

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Electroputere

Electroputere S.A. (which translates as Electropower in English) is a company based in Craiova, Romania.

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FAUR

FAUR S.A. is an industrial engineering and manufacturing company based in Bucharest, Romania.

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Ganz Works

The Ganz Works or Ganz (or Ganz Művek, Ganz enterprises or Ganz companies) was a group of companies operating between 1845 and 1949 in Budapest, Hungary.

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Giurgiu

Giurgiu is a city in southern Romania.

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Greece

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Henschel & Son

Henschel & Son (Henschel und Sohn) was a German company, located in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting vehicles and weapons.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the derived unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI) and is defined as one cycle per second.

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International Union of Railways

The UIC (Union Internationale des Chemins de fer) or International Union of Railways is an international rail transport industry body.

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Kalotina

Kalotina (Калотина) is a village in Dragoman Municipality, Sofia Province, in westernmost central Bulgaria.

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Kambarka Engineering Works

Kambarka Engineering Works - Full name: Open Joint Stock Company «Kambarka Engineering Works» (КМЗ or Камбарский машиностроительный завод).

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Kapıkule

Kapıkule is the name of the Turkish border crossing point in Edirne Province on the border of Turkey and Bulgaria.

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Kardam, Dobrich Province

Kardam (Кардам, Turkish and Arman) is a village in General Toshevo Municipality, Dobrich Province, in northeastern Bulgaria.

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KONČAR Group

The KONČAR Group is an electrical, transport and energy company based in Zagreb, Croatia.

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Kulata

Kulata (Кулата, "the tower") is a village in Petrich Municipality, Blagoevgrad Province, in southwestern Bulgaria.

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List of BDŽ locomotives

This is a list of the Locomotives of the Bulgarian State Railways (BDŽ).

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List of UIC country codes

The UIC Country Code is a two digit-number identifying countries in which members of the International Union of Railways (UIC) are active.

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Luhanskteplovoz

Luhanskteplovoz (Луганськтепловоз or Luhansk Locomotive works), earlier known as Voroshilovgrad Locomotive works is a large industrial company in Luhansk, Ukraine, manufacturing locomotives, multiple unit trains (both electric and diesel) as well as other heavy equipment.

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Makedonski Železnici

Makedonski Železnici (MŽ) (Македонски Железници, Macedonian Railways) is the public enterprise for railways in the Republic of Macedonia.

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Maurice de Hirsch

Moritz (Zvi) von Hirsch, also known as Maurice de Hirsch (Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth; Maurice, baron de Hirsch de Gereuth; 9 December 1831 – 21 April 1896), was a German Jewish financier and philanthropist who set up charitable foundations to promote Jewish education and improve the lot of oppressed European Jewry.

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National Railway Infrastructure Company

The National Railway Infrastructure Company (Национална компания Железопътна инфраструктура, Natsionalna kompaniya Zhelezopatna infrastruktura, abbreviated as НКЖИ or NRIC) is Bulgaria's state railway infrastructure company, established as an entity on 1 January 2002.

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Negru Vodă, Constanța

Negru Vodă (historical names: Caraomer, Karaömer) is a town in Constanța County, Dobruja, south-eastern Romania.

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Niš

Niš (Ниш) is the third-largest city in Serbia and the administrative center of the Nišava District.

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Orestiada

Orestiada (Ορεστιάδα, formerly Νέα Ὀρεστιάς, Nea Orestiás), is the northeasternmost and northernmost city of Greece and the second largest town of the Evros regional unit of Thrace.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.

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Promachonas

Promachonas (Προμαχώνας, Драготин, Dragotin) is a village and a former community in the Serres regional unit, Greece.

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Rail transport in Romania

The first railway in the Kingdom of Romania opened in 1869 and linked Bucharest and Giurgiu.

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Rail transport in Turkey

Turkey has a well-developed, state-owned railway system built to standard gauge which falls under the remit of the Ministry of Transport and Communication.

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Railway Gazette International

Railway Gazette International is a monthly business journal covering the railway, metro, light rail and tram industries worldwide.

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Railways of Greece

The railways of Greece have a history which begin in 1869, with the completion of the then Athens & Piraeus Railway, with parts of it also becoming the second-oldest underground metro system in the world.

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Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca

Rīgas Vagonbūves Rūpnīca (RVR) is one of the largest machine-building plants in Latvia, founded in 1895 by the businessman Oscar Freywirth under the name Phoenix.

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Ruse, Bulgaria

Ruse (also transliterated as Rousse, Russe or Rusçuk; Русе) is the fifth largest city in Bulgaria.

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Septemvri

Septemvri (Септември, lit. September) is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, located at the western end of the Upper Thracian Lowland, away to the west from the city of Pazardzhik.

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Septemvri–Dobrinishte narrow-gauge line

The Septemvri–Dobrinishte narrow-gauge line (теснолинейка Септември – Добринище, tesnolineyka Septemvri–Dobrinishte) is the only operating narrow-gauge line in Bulgaria.

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Serbia

Serbia (Србија / Srbija),Pannonian Rusyn: Сербия; Szerbia; Albanian and Romanian: Serbia; Slovak and Czech: Srbsko,; Сърбия.

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Serbian Railways

Serbian Railways (Железнице Србије / Železnice Srbije; abbr. ŽS / ЖС) is a Serbian engineering and technical consulting company based in Belgrade, Serbia.

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Siemens

Siemens AG is a German conglomerate company headquartered in Berlin and Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad.

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Siemens Desiro

The Siemens Desiro is a family of diesel or electric multiple unit passenger trains developed by Siemens Mobility, a division of the German Siemens AG conglomerate.

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Simeonovgrad

Simeonovgrad (Симеоновград, "town of Simeon") is a town in southern Bulgaria, located in Haskovo Province on both banks of the Maritsa River.

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Simmering-Graz-Pauker

Simmering-Graz-Pauker AG (SGP), founded as Simmering-Graz-Pauker AG für Maschinen-, Kessel- und Waggonbau, was an important Austrian machine and engine factory, manufacturing: machinery, boilers and rail vehicles.

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Sofia

Sofia (Со́фия, tr.) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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State-owned enterprise

A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a business enterprise where the state has significant control through full, majority, or significant minority ownership.

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Svilengrad

Svilengrad (Свиленград) is a town in Haskovo Province, south-central Bulgaria, situated at the border of Turkey and Greece.

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Switcher

A switcher or shunter (Great Britain: shunter; Australia: shunter or yard pilot; United States: switcher, switch engine, or yard goat, except Pennsylvania Railroad: shifter) is a small railroad locomotive intended not for moving trains over long distances but rather for assembling trains ready for a road locomotive to take over, disassembling a train that has been brought in, and generally moving railroad cars around – a process usually known as ''switching'' (USA) or shunting (UK).

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Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη, Thessaloníki), also familiarly known as Thessalonica, Salonica, or Salonika is the second-largest city in Greece, with over 1 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of Greek Macedonia, the administrative region of Central Macedonia and the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia and Thrace.

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TU7 diesel locomotive

TU7 (ТУ7) - Soviet, later Russian diesel locomotive for gauge –.

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Varna

Varna (Варна, Varna) is the third-largest city in Bulgaria and the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.

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Vidin

Vidin (Видин) is a port town on the southern bank of the Danube in north-western Bulgaria.

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Volkseigener Betrieb

The Publicly Owned Operation (Volkseigener Betrieb; abbreviated VEB) was the main legal form of industrial enterprise in East Germany.

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William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone, (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party.

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25 kV AC railway electrification

25 kV alternating current electrification is commonly used in railway electrification systems worldwide, especially for high-speed rail.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_State_Railways

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