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Derailment of Freight Train No 50501 in Voluyak – Hrabarsko Interstation Section on 03.09.2016.

Derailment of Freight Train No 50501 in Voluyak – Hrabarsko Interstation Section on 03.09.2016.
At approximately 06:20 AM on 03.09.2016, freight train No 50501 composed by 18 full with coal wagons and electric locomotive no 46033.7 with a gross mass of 1340 tonnes, departed from Voluyak station towards the Goljamo selo station. During the train movement, the twelfth wagon derailed at km 14+055. Since the towing locomotive was very powerful, the crew did not feel the sense of the derailed wagon. Upon entering of the train in the right track curve at km 23 755 and due to a fall in the pressure in the train main air pipe, the locomotive driver undertook quick stopping. In result of the inspection done afterwards, it was found that after the twelfth wagon derailed and inclined were the following five wagons,

Derailment of freight train No 50505 during transit passing through Petarch station on 28.08.2016

Derailment of freight train No 50505 during transit passing through Petarch station on 28.08.2016
At 12:24 PM on 28.08.2016 freight train (FT) No 50505 of BDZ Cargo departed from Stanyantsi shunting district in direction Stanyantsi – Voluyak – Dupnitsa. While passing transit through Petarch station and after exit switch no 2 , seven cars (from 4-th to 10-th) from the composition of the train derailed. The train was composed of 12 wagons loaded with coal, serviced by the leading locomotive No 43-551 and pushing locomotive No 45-166, and with a total mass of 924 tonnes.
No one was hurt in result of the accident.

Deputy Ministers Lubomir Hadjiysky and Georgi Todorov opened the ceremony dedicated to the presentation of a book on the history of transport troops

Deputy Ministers of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Lubomir Hadjiysky and Georgi Todorov opened a ceremony dedicated to the presentation of a documental publication devoted to the history of transport troops.

The initiatives during the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of EU, were the topic of the meeting between the Minister Hristo Alexiev and the Ambassador of Romania Ion Gâlea

The initiatives during the upcoming first Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of EU, were discussed in a meeting today between the caretaker Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Hristo Alexiev and the Ambassador Extraor