Brodina – Izvoarele Sucevei railway line

Brodina – Izvoarele Sucevei
Course book range :	CFR: 515
Route length:	approx. 32 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Rădăuți 49.641 Brodina Suceava ~ 52 Sadau Suceava ~ 56 Paltin 58.936 Nisipitu ~ 62 Ulma State border Romania / Ukraine Suceava ~ 65 Ruska (Руська) Suceava ~ 70 Seljatyn (Селятин) ~ 79 Shepit (Шепіт) State border Ukraine / Romania ~ 82 Izvoarele Sucevei

The Brodina – Izvoarele Sucevei railway line is a railway connection in Romania and the Ukraine that is now closed . It is located in the valley of the Suceava River in Bukovina .

history

During the creation of the railway line, it was on the territory of Austria within the Habsburg dual monarchy .

In 1898, the Rădăuți – Brodina line of the New Bukovina Local Railway went into operation. In the years that followed, the responsible authorities considered extending the railway in the Suceava valley. It was planned to build the line to Izvoarele Sucevei (then Izwor ).

After a few years of discussion, the railway line was finally built from 1911 to 1913 as a narrow-gauge line (760 mm) from the New Bukovina Local Railway to Seletin (now Seljatyn in Ukraine). In the densely wooded Carpathian region, it was mainly used to transport wood.

In the course of the fighting of the First World War , the area was occupied by Russian troops and in 1916 converted to standard gauge using material from other branch lines of the Bukovina . In addition, the line was extended to Izvoarele Sucevei. In 1917 this work was completed by the latter after it was retaken by Austro-Hungarian troops.

After the war, the Bukovina came to Romania; the route was taken over by the Romanian state railway CFR . However, the final section of the railway line - which reached an altitude of approx. 900 m at Izvoarele Sucevei - was abandoned; The final stop was Șipotele Sucevei (today Shepit in Ukraine).

In 1940 the Red Army occupied northern Bukovina. The section in the upper Suceava Valley came to the Soviet Union , but was of no importance for it, as there was no connection to the rest of the Soviet rail network. From 1941 to 1944, the whole of Bukovina belonged again to Romania temporarily, and since then again to the Soviet Union (and from 1991 to Ukraine). The railway line was shut down on Soviet territory and operated on the Romanian side to the Nisipitu stop .

Current situation

The Romanian part of the line to Nisipitu is single-track and not electrified. It is officially still part of the course book route 515 from Dorneşti to Nisipitu or Putna . In July 2008 the railway line was damaged by floods and has been out of service since then. A recovery has not yet taken place. The CFR is considering shutting down the deficit route or leaving it to private providers.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stenographic minutes of the meetings of the manor house of the Reichsrat. kk court and state printing house. Vienna, 1901. p. 18
2. ^ Stenographic minutes of the meetings of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reichsrat. kk court and state printing house. Vienna, 1909. p. 461
3. ↑ Paul Mechtler: Inventory of Transport archive Vienna. Berger-Verlag 1959. p. 145
4. ↑ 760.net, accessed May 15, 2009
5. ^ Wolfgang Wendelin: Carpathian steam. Volume 2: Narrow-Gauge Railways in Northern Bukovina. Self-published. Mautern 2003
6. ^ Emil Sigerus : Travel Guide for Greater Romania . Berlin: Verlag Rüdiger, 1925. p. 103
7. ↑ http://www.standard.ro/articol_55580/reconstructia_infrastructurii_feroviare_dupa_inundatiile_din_nord_si_vest_costa_166_270_lei.html (link not available)
8. ↑ adevărul.ro of May 11, 2009, accessed on May 15, 2009 ( Memento of May 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )