Caransebeş – Bouțari – Subcetate railway line

Caransebeş – Bouțari – Subcetate
Steam locomotive 40.001 in the Subcetate depot
Route
Course book route (CFR) :	211
Route length:	76.93 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	50  ‰
Rack system :	Dept
Legend from Lugoj 0.0 Caransebeş ( Caransebes ) after Turnu Severin 1.90 Caransebeş Cazarmă hc. 2.95 Caransebeş Țiglărie Hm. 8.83 Iaz hc. 10.78 Obreja hc. (Obrescha) 14.95 Glimboca hc. (formerly train station) 16.38 Bucium hc. 17.55 Oțelu Roșu (formerly the train station) 20.52 Oțelu Roșu hc. (Ferdinandsberg) 24.26 Zăvoiu Hm. 28.59 Voislova Hm. (Woislowa) 32.94 Marga hc. 37.38 Bouțari Hm. (Bautzen) 45.51 Bucova h. 47.29 Porțile de Fier 692 m 51.17 Zăicani h. 56.16 Sarmizegetusa (castle town) 61.81 Peştenița h. 63.18 Carneşti Retezat h. 65.45 Păclișa h. 72.93 Hațeg (Hatzeg) from Petroșani 76.93 Subcetate after Simeria

The Caransebeş – Bouțari – Subcetate railway is a branch line in Romania . The route is not electrified and is now only used on a small section between Hațeg and Subcetate in freight traffic.

history

The Caransebeş - Bouțari section was opened on November 11, 1908 and the Bouțari-Subcetate section on May 1, 1909. The city of Oțelu Roşu is also located on the railway line . Because of the very steep gradients of up to 50 ‰, a 5.28 km long section between Bouțari and Sarmizegetusa was operated as a rack railway. A lower maximum tonnage of 150 t / f for freight and 50 to 70 t / f applied on this section. for passenger trains with a maximum speed of 12 km / h or 8 km / h. This significantly reduced the section's transport capacity. The renowned engineer M. Tudoran therefore described this solution as a technical aberration and in 1941 recommended that this type of rail transport be abandoned.

In 1978 the section between Bouțari and Sarmizegetusa was finally shut down, and in 1995 the section between Sarmizegetusa and Hațeg. In 2000 the rails between Bouțari and Hațeg were dismantled. At least until 2014, five local trains ran daily in both directions between Caransebeş and Bouțari. In 2018 there was only freight traffic between Hațeg and Subcetate.

Locomotives

From 1908 to 1978, only special steam locomotives operated , which were manufactured in the then Wiener Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf (WLF) for the Abt rack system ; they had the numbers 40.001 to 40.007 . There were tank locomotives with the wheel arrangement 1-D-1 and additional drive gears, four wet steam cylinder locks and Heusinger control . The rest of the way they drove in normal adhesion mode . One of these locomotives was still in the Subcetate depot in 2009.

Love tunnel from Obreja

Photo of the love tunnel between Obreja and Glimboca
Alexandru M. , 2014
Link to the picture (please note copyrights )

Between Obreja and its eastern neighbor, Glimboca, there is the so-called Love Tunnel of Obreja , a section of the railway line “framed” by vegetation, which in 2014 was listed as one of 28 recommended sights in the European Parliament's Foursquare list .

Web links

• Route on OpenStreetMap

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tiberiu Svoboda: Cărbunele și drumurile sale de fier . In: Caietele Petro-Aqua . No. 7 . Petroșani 2009, p. 45–50 (Romanian, 82 pp., Bjc.ro [PDF; 7.2 MB ; accessed on January 18, 2020] e-book).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} The love tunnel, one of the most romantic places in romania. (No longer available online.) In: www.wonderful-romania.com. March 30, 2014, archived from the original on December 30, 2014 ; accessed on May 3, 2016 .  
3. ↑ German Consulate Timisoara: Press review from August 5, 2014. Love tunnel in Karasch Severin. (No longer available online.) In: www.temeswar.diplo.de. August 10, 2014, archived from the original on May 31, 2016 ; accessed on May 6, 2016 .  
4. ↑ European Parliament: Foursquare City Guide - Tunelul Iubirii. In: foursquare.com. August 1, 2014, accessed January 18, 2020 .  
5. ↑ European Parliament: Re-discover Europe 2014. In: foursquare.com. August 1, 2014, accessed January 18, 2020 .