The Bulgarian Railway Company (BRC, ) is the first privately held

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company to obtain a license in

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. Control of BRC is shared by five Bulgarian companies and one

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. BRC's chairman is Vladimir Dunchev, who was formerly the general director of the Bulgarian State Railway Company (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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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

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diesel locomotives *60 1522 - 6 *60 1524 - 2

Class 52

*52 - 240

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