The rehabilitation of the railway section Skutare – Orizovo is part of the second phase of the project “Rehabilitation of the railway infrastructure along the railway line Plovdiv – Bourgas”, funded under OP on “Transport and Transport Infrastructure” 2014-2020.

We have invested 70 mil. BGN for the rehabilitation of the 26 km long railway section from Skutare to Orizovo, stated Deputy Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Velik Zanchev during the ground breaking ceremony of the section. In his words, construction activities should finish by the beginning of 2019 and hence the trains could travel at speed between 130 and 160 km/h. He said that Belozem railway station will be also modernized within a year and a half.

Funds agreed for the railway projects axis in the new Programming period of OP on “Transport and Transport Infrastructure” are about 64 mil. BGN. Two other major projects are at a final stage. We work actively for the purchase of a rolling stock that will move along the renewed tracks and our plans are to have the first new trains by the mid of 2020. 

A preview of the project for modernization of the "Orizovo - Mihaylovo" railway section, also part of the project "Rehabilitation of the railway line Plovdiv - Burgas, Phase 2", can be found here: