Bulgarian Authorities anxious to get these non-public traces underneath its personal administration

The Bulgarian Authorities is of course anxious to get these non-public traces underneath its personal administration It’s contended at Sofia that these traces are labored -and really correctly so- with the view of yielding the most important and rapid return to the shareholders, not with a view of growing the sources of the nation ; and that, by the introduction of decrease freights and elevated services, they is perhaps made infinitely extra helpful to the neighborhood, with none loss past a brief diminution of revenue. The corporate, I fancy, are prepared to lease the portion of their traces operating over Bulgarian territory to the State; however they’ll solely achieve this at a value based mostly on their potential moderately than their precise worth; and this value the Bulgarians, rightly or wrongly, deem exorbitant. This pure divergence of view between sellers as distinguished from patrons has created a great deal of irritation between the Bulgarian Authorities and the Orient Railways Firm, and this irritation is augmented by the unintentional circumstance that the Turkish Authorities has the correct of interfering in any association concluded between the 2 contracting events.

Fastened station of Bellova

Solely the opposite day an incident occurred in reference to this railway query, which exhibits how surprisingly industrial and worldwide concerns are combined up on this a part of the world. By the unique settlement between Bulgaria and the Orient Railways Firm the purpose, west and east of which the principle line visitors is labored respectively by the State and by the corporate, was fastened on the station of Bellova, some fifteen miles east of Sofia. This station lies in a slender hole, by which the road passes between a variety of hills that separates the plateau of Sofia from the plains of Philippopolis. There isn’t any room on this hole to enlarge the station in query, which, owing to the speedy improve of visitors, has develop into inconveniently small. Fixed delays and difficulties have arisen at Bellova from the absence of further sidings, and on a number of events accidents have been attributable to the block of trains at Bellova, which in a single or two situations have been attended with deadly outcomes. So as to treatment this inconvenience the Bulgarian Authorities proposed to take away the purpose of junction, at which the administration of the service is taken over by the State, from Bellova to Sarembey, a station about six miles east of the previous place, and which lies within the open plain past the hole, and may, if essential, be enlarged to any quantity desired.