“The condition of the Greek railways is worse than the Bulgarian ones - in terms of infrastructure and personnel and even in terms of organization. During the severe accident in Greece yesterday, one train was moving at a speed of 160 km per hour, and the other - at 120 km/h.”

This is what railway expert Prof. Simeon Ananiev from the Association of Railway Enterprises told bTV. According to him, the reason for the collision between a passenger and freight train lies in the lack of sufficient control. “We are in the Balkans - rules are one thing, control is quite another, and implementation is something else,” Ananiev said.

He quotes his colleagues in our southern neighbor whom he contacted yesterday. According to them, the reasons for the serious accident are the bad infrastructure - such as contact networks, crossings and signaling, as well as the lack of good staffing - the Greeks have introduced an automatic system, but they still work with the manual one.

“Now I hope that new rules will be introduced to prevent the repetition of this tragedy,” commented Prof. Ananiev.

The railway expert emphasized that the locomotives have equipment in constant connection with the systems that enable automatic stopping when a problem is detected. However, all this did not work.

“There was no guideline for the speed to be lower. With us, if such a problem occurs, the speed is reduced automatically. To knock on wood, we have a better system,” added Prof. Simeon Ananiev.

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