The new rolling stock fully meets our expectations. From now on, we can offer people on these trains many times more comfort. This is what the Minister of Transport and Communications Georgi Gvozdeykov said in Burgas on disembarking from the first train with the modernized rolling stock. The Transport Minister was one of the passengers who travelled the distance from Sofia to Burgas with the new carriages. With him in the train were Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Biser Minchev and the Manager of BDZ-Passenger Transport Ventsislav Slavkov.
Minister Gvozdeykov pointed out that the newly purchased wagons are the best that can be done for the railway transport in Bulgaria in such a short time. ‘We expect the second batch of 19 wagons to be delivered next week. I have instructed BDZ-Passenger Transport to continue negotiations with Deutsche Bahn for the purchase of more wagons’, he said.
Regarding travel times, the minister explained ‘we were arriving earlier than scheduled at almost every station, but we have a timetable and it has to be adhered to.’ He added that there are three sections with quite serious repairs where the speed is limited to 25 km/h. ‘If the actions on these repairs are accelerated, we can achieve an even shorter journey between Sofia and Burgas on the Sub-Balkan line’, Gvozdeykov stressed.
Regarding the protection of the wagons, Minister Gvozdeykov was adamant that it was high time people changed their minds and were more responsible towards the common property. ‘The culture in Europe is different, but we have to understand once and for all that we are also part of Europe’, the transport minister said.
The same train will depart from Burgas to Sofia today at 16:00. Both trains will run on this route every day until the end of the summer season.
