Railway in Bulgaria: High Speed Rail Plans

The Sofia Echo, 6th May 2006

The Bulgarian cabinet approved on April 27 a draft agreement on the construction of a high-speed railway network in South East Europe. The document regulates co-operation among the countries in the region in railway transport and envisages the building of a prime-quality high-speed network of 16 railway lines for cargo and passenger transport. Five of them will run across Bulgaria, passing through Sofia, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, Varna, Bourgas, Gorna Oryahovitsa, Vidin and Rousse.

The railway lines in South East Europe, the quality of which will high enough to be included in the high-speed network, as part of the Trans-European Network, the Pan-European Corridors or the South-East railways, will permit speeds of 160km/h, reaching 220km/h in some sections, by 2020.

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