Българска железопътна компания АД (transliterated: Bulgarska zhelezoputna kompaniya AD), in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, The Bulgarian Railway Company (BRC) is the first privately held railfreight company to obtain a license in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n company, Grup Feroviar Român

Grup Feroviar Roman

Grup Feroviar Român, or simply GFR, is the largest private railway company in Romania and one of the largest in South Eastern Europe. Founded in 2001, the company owns freight operations in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro and Mozambique, and railcar production and...

 Bucharest

Bucharest

Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

. 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

British Rail Class 87

The British Rail Class 87 is a type of electric locomotive built from 1973-75 by British Rail Engineering Limited . 36 of these locomotives were built to work passenger services over the West Coast Main Line . They were the flagships of British Rail's electric locomotive fleet until the late 1980s,...

 locomotives exported from the UK.

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

Formerly British Rail

British Rail

British Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...

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