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The company’s headquarters are located in the capital Sofia. Since the 1990s the BD\u017d has met serious competition from automotive transport. Up to 2002 the company also owned\/managed the state railway (up to 2,485 miles (3,999\u00a0km) total of 1,435\u00a0mm (4.708\u00a0ft) & 760\u00a0mm (2.49\u00a0ft) (Septemvri to Dobrinishte only) track gauge railway tracks) infrastructure in the country, when according to EU regulations[clarification needed] a new state company, the National Railway Infrastructure Company, was founded and became the owner of the infrastructure.Bulgaria is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Bulgaria is 52.Table of ContentsHistory[edit]Company structure[edit]Current traction[edit]Gallery[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]History[edit]On 1 January 2002, the new Railway Transport Act entered into force, passed by the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria, according to which the National Company Bulgarian State Railways were split into two separate enterprises \u2013 a railway carrier (Bulgarian State Railways EAD) and an infrastructure enterprise (Railway Infrastructure National Company)The European Commission formally warned Bulgaria in May 2010 for failure to implement the First Railway rules on track access charges.[1]In October 2010 further restructuring was announced, with BD\u017d EAD becoming a holding company, and all rolling stock allocated to passenger & freight subsidiaries.[2]Company structure[edit]  BDZ trains at Pernik railway station    Since the last reforms in 2007, a new organisational structure has been approved.BD\u017d Inc. (a holding company with one shareholder, the Republic of Bulgaria)BD\u017d Putnicheski Prevozi Ltd. (Bulgarian state railways Passenger transportations) – responsible for the passenger services. The company carried 21.3 million passengers in 2019.[3]Bulgarian State Railways Freight Transportations Ltd. – Freight operations and expedition with subsidiary BDZ SPED Ltd. The company carried 13.3 million tonnes of freight in 2009 in 3.1 million tonne-kilometers[needs update]. Privatisation was attempted in 2012, but called off in 2013 due to financial problems.[4]BD\u017d Traktzionen Podvizhen Sustav Ltd. – locomotive management and servicing.BD\u017d-Koncar Inc. – joint venture between BD\u017d EAD {Bulgarian State Railways single-member joint-stock company} and KON\u010cAR Group from Croatia with main scope of work locomotive repairs and modernization.Still there are many problems with the organisational structure of the holding. There is an evident lack of effectiveness in the administration and the main goal of the Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies and Telecommunication is to make the company profitable.The National rail carrier offers its customers medium and long-distance travel with the following passenger train categories:fast train with mandatory booking (\u0411\u0412\u0417\u0420, R\u0411\u0412);fast train (\u0411\u0412);passenger train (\u041f\u0412)suburban passenger train (\u041a\u041f\u0412) andinternational express (\u041c\u0411\u0412).Fast trains with mandatory booking (\u0411\u0412\u0417\u0420) are direct descendants of the last commercial category \u2013 “express”. Fast train timetables with mandatory booking are compiled based on a thorough analysis of the current traffic on major railways. Basically and inviolably rules when developing the schedule of high-speed trains with mandatory reservation is a condition that they stop at a minimum number of stations, which ensure that they move as quickly as possible from point A to point B along the route. For the express traffic of this category of trains, the good technical condition of traction and rolling stock, which has a railway operator, is also important.In 2017 (from July 1, 2017) for the first time in the history of Bulgarian State Railways and thanks mainly to the renovated with European funds of the 1st and 8th RAILWAY lines, it became possible to release another fast train \u0411\u0412\u0417\u0420 with a maximum speed of 150 km \/ h. These are the BVZR “Sunny Beach” , which for this purpose serves promoted to Kon\u010dar Ellok \u2013 Zagreb electric locomotives of the 46 200 series and with cars of the 21 \u2013 50 series (second \u2013 class coupes), 10 \u2013 50 (first \u2013 class coupes) and 84 \u2013 9784-97 (bistro car).Current traction[edit]Gallery[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]  "},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki24\/2016\/10\/21\/bulgarian-state-railways-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Bulgarian State Railways – Wikipedia"}}]}]