site.btaNarrow-gauge Railway Engine Gets New Lease on Life

A 34-year-old diesel locomotive running the Septemvri–Dobrinishte narrow-gauge line was overhauled in a Ruse factory, on the Danube, and will be pulling wagons again along the 125-km-long, picturesque route between the towns of Septemvri and Dobrinishte. The engine was manufactured in the Romanian capital of Bucharest in 1988. The factory closed shortly afterwards. The Septemvri motive power depot has no suitable spare parts, making it incapable of maintaining similar locomotives, and overhauling was the only option, manager of the repairing company Express Service LTD Tsvetelin Kolev said in a BTA interview.