Timișoara – Arad railway line
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 Arad train station
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.jpg) Timișoara North Railway Station
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| Route length: | 57 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Timișoara – Arad railway is a 57-kilometer main line in Romania , which opened on April 6, 1871.
history
planning
In 1867 the Hungarian authorities decided to step up the construction of railways. This resumed older plans by Imre Miko , the Minister of Communications. He prepared a detailed plan for the construction of the Hungarian railway network, in which the route from Timișoara to Arad played an important role. An important contribution was also made by Georg Klapka , who owes the necessary political support and approval by the parliament in Budapest. As a result, the construction of the Timișoara – Arad line was approved in 1868 with Law 38/1868, and the concession was awarded to a private limited company.
construction
The actual construction began on December 3, 1868 over a length of originally 57.2 kilometers by a private company. The work lasted 16 months and the inauguration took place on April 6, 1871. The first trains on this route were mixed trains with a cruising speed of no more than 16 to 25 km / h. They were pulled by steam locomotives with three coupled axles of category III (MÁV series 335), which had been built in 1869–1870 by the Austrian Lokomotiv- & Maschinen-Fabrik G. Sigl in Wiener Neustadt .
business
By opening the line discussed here , Timișoara in the Banat , which had been connected to the railway network via Szeged since 1857 , received another connection with the Hungarian capital Budapest via the Szolnok – Arad railway line . The operator of the line was from 1871 to 1891 the Arad-Temesvári Vasúttársaság . With the nationalization of the company, the route to Magyar Államvasutak (MÁV) came. After the First World War , the line, like the whole of the Banat, came under Romanian administration and thus to the Căile Ferate Române (CFR), which it still operates today.
electrification
In the 1960s, communist authorities sought to electrify major rail lines across the country in order to modernize the railroad. The priority was on the course book routes 900 from Bucharest via Caransebeş to Timişoara and 200 from Bucharest via Deva and Arad to the state border at Curtici . The Timișoara – Arad line connects these two main lines and was therefore also electrified on September 15, 1975.
The route is continuously single-track and is operated by the CFR as a route book route 310 in regional and long-distance traffic.
Web links
- Valentin Ivănescu: Cronica Ilustrată a regionalei de căi ferate Timișoara. (pdf) In: BanaTerra - The Encyclopedia of the Banats. Retrieved April 22, 2017 (Romanian).