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Thomas Kautzor writes:
Steam from the 600mm gauge:
202.60 (Borsig 5912/1906) plinthed at Stara Zagora Locomotive Depot (8th
March 2011). This loco was delivered to Schuli Silbermann in Stara Zagora, then incorporated into the Heeresfeldbahnen during WWI and into BDZ in 1918.
470.60 (Hen. 15065/1917, ex HF 1052) stored at Septemvri Depot (5th March
2011). It was formerly on display at the Bulgarian Transportation Museum in Ruse since 1966.
479.60 (Hen. 16012/1918, ex HF 1130) with Cf.60 No. 105 (Smoschewer, Breslau 1925) at Sofia Main Station
3rd March 2011. The loco was in use on the General Todorov – Petritsch until it was converted to standard gauge in 1969, then plinthed at Radomir station until 2000. The coach comes from
Dupnica.
489.60 (Smoschewer 776/1925, ex No. 1142) plinthed at Dupnica Locomotive Depot
(10th March 2011). Although it carries the Henschel builder’s plate from 449.60 (14269/1916, ex HF 1021), this loco was one of four Brigadeloks built by Smoschewer for BDZ’s Burgas to Pomorie line in 1925. These were the only Brigadeloks ever built by Smoschewer, and the last ones ever built. In 1936, 489.60 was transferred to Dupnica shed, and in 1946 to
Kaspican.
Three BDZ Brigadeloks left Bulgaria around 2000:
437.60 (Hen. 14255/1916, ex HF 1007), which also carried No. 441.60, to Germany, then Norway and finally Sweden, see
http://www.heeresfeldbahn.de/lokomotiven/deutschland/brigadelok/247.html
465.60 (Hen. 15052/1917, ex HF 1039), to Austria, see http://www.heeresfeldbahn.de/lokomotiven/deutschland/brigadelok/280.html
485.60 (Hen. 16020/1918, ex HF 1138), to Germany, where it is operational (the only BDZ Brigadelok so far), see
http://www.heeresfeldbahn.de/lokomotiven/deutschland/brigadelok/163.html
At Ruse there are two more non-BDZ 600 mm gauge steam locos, an (O&K?) 0-4-0T plinthed inside the gate at the locomotive works and Jung 0-4-0T 65 PS ‘Hilax’ 9943/1942
(http://steamlocomotive.info/vlocomotive.cfm?Display=19600), ex-Burgas Mines, new to Ph. Holzmann, Frankfurt/M), which is on display at the Bulgarian Transportation Museum (this loco has also been wrongly reported as Jung 5815/1934, which was in fact a ZL105 diesel).
This is a 600 mm gauge mobile armoured gun tower and its trailer at the National Museum of Military History in Sofia
(29th April.2011).
Steam from the 760mm gauge:
1.76 (0-6-2T, Rheinmetal l 429/1922) stored at Septemvri Depot (5th March
2011). It was formerly on display at the Bulgarian Transportation Museum in Ruse since 1966.
10.76 (0-6-2T, Rheinmetall 438/1922) stored at Septemvri Depot (6th March
2011). This loco was formerly plinthed at the bus station in Plovdiv.
503.76 (0-10-0T, CKD 1084/1927) plinthed at the abandoned Cerven Brjag Lokomotive Depot
(4th March 2011);
504.76 (0-10-0T, CKD 1085/1927) stored at Bansko station (6th March
2011);
506.76 (0-10-0T, CKD BMAG 8452/1931) stored at Septemvri Depot (5th March
2011). It was formerly on display at the Bulgarian Transportation Museum in Ruse since 1966.
609.76 (2-10-2T, Chrzanow 1929/1949) serviceable at Septemvri Depot (06th
March 2011) and heading an LCGB charter at Kostandovo (30th April 2011);
610.76 (2-10-2T, Chrzanow 1930/1949) stored at Septemvri Depot (6th March
2011). This loco was in service on the Cerven Brjag – Orjahovo line.
611.76 (2-10-2T, Chrzanow 1931/1949) stored at Septemvri Depot (6th March
2011). This loco was in service on the Cerven Brjag – Orjahovo line.
613.76 (2-10-2T, Chrzanow 1933/1949) stored at Bansko station (9th March
2011). A month later the loco had been taken down to Septemvri Depot for a planned overhaul in order to replace 609.76
(30th April 2011).
615.76 (2-10-2T, Chrzanow 1935/1949) plinthed at VTU “Todorov Kabelshkov” Transport University in Sofia-Slatina, not far from the airport
(4th March 2011). She comes from the Septemvri line and used to be stored at
Bansko.
This is the ‘boiler car’ 99 004 at Septemvri, used to pre-heat the passenger coaches.
Narrow Gauge Diesels
On the 600mm gauge, there’s the Plovdiv Childrens'/Park Railway, the Kardzhali Park Railway and the
working Burgas Salt Works Railway which uses Romanian Unio diesels and Heeresfeldbahn wooden bogie wagons for transporting the salt, the last place in the World were these are in commercial service.
On the 760mm gauge there are the working locos (Henschel, LKM and Romanian) and railcars (Ganz-MAVAG) of the Septemvri line, plus those dumped at Cerven
Brjag.
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