NovaTrax Partners is a specialist infrastructure developer revitalising Bulgaria's 125 km Rhodope narrow-gauge spine — connecting heritage, nature, and community in the Balkan mountains, with a long-term vision for further connections beyond it.
Bulgaria's 760 mm narrow gauge spine from Septemvri to Dobrinishte is one of Europe's great unheralded railway journeys — traversing the Rhodope and Rila mountains through 35 tunnels and across 27 bridges at altitudes reaching 1,267 m above sea level.
Opened in stages between 1926 and 1945, this line was built with extraordinary engineering to serve mountain communities, spa resorts, and agricultural valleys. Today it operates at a 36 km/h average with ageing stock — overlooked by a state railway programme focused entirely on standard gauge.
"The government's €326.7 million Alstom rolling-stock contract covers only standard-gauge trains — leaving the 760 mm spine entirely unaddressed. That is NovaTrax territory."
NovaTrax Partners™ is structured to pursue this opportunity: a phased programme of rehabilitation and expansion, grant-stacked through EU cohesion funds, proposed for delivery under a long-term concession, and designed from the ground up for the growing premium mountain tourism market.
NovaTrax Partners exists to bring modern infrastructure discipline — capital, technology, and political will — back to rail.
"The narrow gauge does not compete with modernity. It carries something modernity cannot — the particular intimacy of a mountain journey at human scale."
NovaTrax Partners · Balkan Narrow Gauge Railways · Est. 2026
Septemvri to Dobrinishte. 35 tunnels. 27 bridges. 1,267 metres above sea level. This is the line NovaTrax Partners is bringing back to life.
We welcome enquiries from investors, funds, development finance, and government stakeholders interested in a rail revival.
NovaTrax Partners is founded and led by Krassi Genov, a Washington, DC–based executive with over 20 years of experience building go-to-market strategy and driving growth at technology companies.
Full investment materials — including the detailed business case, financial model, and regulatory strategy — are available to qualified investors and government counterparts under NDA.