Railway Herald
TBD Freight Transports Skoda electric Class 44 No. 44-083 working in 'top and tail' configuration with Class 60 diesel No. 60-1128 arrives at Voluyak with another loaded consist of coal hoppers from the Beli-breg mine in the west to the Bobov dol power complex in SW Bulgaria. A slightly unusual pairing by TBD and even more unusual in that the train continued on to Sofia Central station to reverse direction to take the more direct route south via Pernik towards Dupnica. A similar working was observed the following day suggesting that the usual routing via Hrabarsko with a run round at Voluyak was unavailable, most likely due to day time engineering work, a practice not uncommon in Bulgaria.
Stephen Ginn
