With the influx of ex-Romanian Class 40 locos (commonly referred to as junk) earlier in the year, tracking down 87s which don’t have one shoved on the front is quite a challenge.
Today, however, on arrival at Sindel we were greeted with the phrase “Днес почитаме” from one of the BZK drivers which means “Today, we honour”. This, naturally, caused some excitement and the sun even made a slight reappearance from behind a bank of cloud for the occasion.
87029 and 87028 stand waiting for the single line working ticket for the line to Ruse with the daily trip working from Razdelna. 87029 is one of the two locos in the BZK 87 fleet which still features ETH equipment (87004 is the other). This was to be used on charters with a rake of exported mk2 stock - a plan that was binned relatively early on in the locos Bulgarian life.
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