Arad – Alba Iulia railway line

Arad-Alba Iulia
Railway station in Alba Iulia
Course book route (CFR) :	200 / 200A
Route length:	211.07 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Szolnok from Brad from Szeged 629.79 Arad to Timișoara 622.92 Glogovăț 616.30 Cicir 608.66 Ghioroc 605.21 Păuliș hc. 602.19 Păuliș from Timișoara by Ghioroc 595.32 Radna 586.66 Milova 582.91 Corfeni 579.46 Conop 574.88 Nadăș 569.64 Bârzava 566.32 Căpruța 562.88 Bătuța 557.98 Valea Mureșului 554.18 Vărădia 551.65 Vărădia hc. 545.62 Săvărșin 538.20 Toc 535.50 Ilteu 531.50 Petriş pe Mureş 527.64 Zam 519.18 Burjuc 515.08 Câmpuri-Surduc 510.79 Gurasada to Lugoj 505.23 Ilia 500.72 Bretea Mureșana 495.38 Brănișca Mureș 492.13 Vețel 490 Mintia hc. 488.06 Mintia after Brad 481.61 Deva 475.67 Săuleşti from Hunedoara 472.24 Simeria to Petroșani Streak 469.06 Simeria Veche 465.02 Turdaș 459.24 Pricaz 455.89 Orăștie 451.88 Geoagiu 449.30 Aurel Vlaicu by Cugir 443.57 Șibot 440.70 Balomiru de Câmp 436.90 Tărtăria 433.79 Blandiana 428.60 Vințu de Jos to Sibiu 424.39 Lancram Mureș 418.73 Alba Iulia to Târgu Mureș

The Arad – Alba Iulia railway line (formerly: Transylvanian Railway ) is a main line in Romania . It runs from the east of the Great Hungarian Plain in the Mureș Valley to western Transylvania .

history

Railway station in Simeria 1870

When it was built, the railway line was on the territory of Hungary within the Habsburg dual monarchy . In Hungary, Transylvania was one of the areas that were only opened up late by railways, which was mainly due to the peripheral location of the region, but also to the difficult terrain compared to central Hungary.

In 1858 Arad was connected to the railway network from Szolnok.

When the draft law for the construction of the railway was introduced in 1863 , five companies applied as contractors or operators in addition to the Theissbahn , which had already submitted a complete construction operation. The law did not come through, but a heated war between the springs over the project broke out in the media . With a resolution of June 5, 1864, it was ordered that construction should begin immediately  - which did not happen despite the receipt of two offers.

Due to the war events of 1866 , financial problems that had existed for several years and the question of which route the first railway to Transylvania should be built on, the start of construction was delayed (the 1865 with the law regarding the construction and operation of a locomotive railway from Arad had been secured via Alvincz to Carlsburg ). Finally, a private company, the “First Transylvanian Railway”, was granted the concession to build the line from Arad to Alba Iulia (German: Karlsburg ) in 1866 and began work in 1867. On December 22nd, 1868 the line was opened. The line was initially operated by the private company and, as contractually agreed, taken over by the Hungarian state railway MÁV in 1884 . During this time, a passenger train needed 7.5 hours for the 211 km.

After the end of the First World War , the line came to Romania and was taken over by the state railway company CFR .

Todays situation

Train station in Deva

The line is electrified and has two tracks throughout. It is one of the most important and efficient connections in the country. Several express and local trains run daily. The line is also of great importance for freight traffic between Romania and the countries of Central and Western Europe.

The line is part of the TEN core network and it is planned to expand the entire line to 160 km / h and to equip it with the European train control system ETCS .

The expansion of the section from Arad up to km 614 was largely completed in 2016. The expansion of the section from km 614 to Ilteu began in July 2017 and should be completed by 2019. The section from Simeria via Alba Iulia to Sighișoara should originally have been expanded by the end of 2017, but the completion date has been delayed.

literature

• Hermann Strach: History of the railways of Austria-Hungary . In: Hermann Strach (Red.), Franz Joseph I .: History of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy on the fiftieth anniversary of the reign of his imperial and royal apostolic majesty Franz Joseph I. Volume 1,1. Prochaska, Vienna / Teschen / Leipzig 1898, pp. 73–503. - Full text online .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Strach: History of the Railways of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy , p. 486.
2. ↑ RGBl 1865/69 .
3. ↑ Trade, Industry and Transport. The second ordinary general assembly of the shareholders of the k. k. priv. first Transylvanian railway. In:  Wiener Zeitung , June 25, 1868, p. 4 center. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ RGBl 1866/126.
5. ↑ Brief history of Transylvania on mek.niif.hu, accessed on April 2, 2009
6. ↑ Transylvania Railways . In: Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon in sixteen volumes . 14th, completely revised edition, revised anniversary edition. Volume 14: Rüdesheim - Soccus . F. A. Brockhaus in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna 1898, p. 945. - Text online .
7. ↑ Transylvania Railway . In: Victor von Röll (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Railway System . Second, completely revised edition. Volume 9: Seaport tariffs - transition curve . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1921, p. 50 f. - text online .
8. ↑ DL: CFR anunță întârzieri între Curtici și Arad. Din toamnă: 160km / oră! aradon.ro, August 20, 2016, accessed on August 23, 2017 (Romanian). 
9. ↑ Ștefan Etveș: CFR SA începe cheltuirea banilor europeni. capital.ro, August 21, 2017, accessed on August 21, 2017 (Romanian). 
10. ↑ Dorin Țimonea: Pe ce cheltuie CFR 1.8 billion de euro pentru ca trenurile să poată circula cu 160 km / h. Stadiul lucrărilor între stațiile Simeria și Sighișoara. (PDF) In: PDF 113 kB. adevarul.ro, July 17, 2017, accessed on August 23, 2017 (Romanian).