New trains on the way, old contracts under investigation

A BDŽ class 44 locomotive at Sofia Central Station in 2024. Sixty new trains from Škoda and Alstom are replacing it. Photo: Kyah117, Wikimedia Commons.

Bulgaria is buying 60 new trains in under two years, with two suppliers and EU money on a deadline, while EU investigators are looking into 19 of the same ministry’s earlier rail contracts.

By Pernille Nygaard

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Twelve Alstom trains have arrived. Funds are lacking for the last 23.