Imported from the UK, AC Electric locomotive No. 87019 still wearing it's Black and Red LNWR livery is captured between duties at Pirdop in central Bulgaria on 14th October 2017. Two other examples that were also part of the seventeen strong export/import deal are also visible here, 87004 'Britannia' and 87028, all three part of the BZK locomotive pool. BZK ( Bulgarian Railway Company) Romanian built 81-0719 stands alongside, a product of the August 23 factory in Bucharest originally out-shopped way back in 1966.
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