Oradea – Cluj-Napoca railway line

Oradea-Cluj-Napoca
Railway station in Cluj-Napoca
Course book route (CFR) :	300
Route length:	152.074 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Püspökladány by Békéscsaba 653.998 Oradea Crișul Repede 650.364 Oradea Est to Vașcău 644,472 Oșorhei 638,469 Săcădat 636.266 Săbolciu 630.907 Tileagd 626,476 Telechiu 622,593 Țețchea 619.681 Aleșd 617.102 Aleșd hc. 612,545 butane 607.565 Vadu Crișului Crișul Repede 605,320 Vadu Crișului hc. Tunnel (approx. 200 m) 603.145 Peştera Tunnel (approx. 300 m) 600,701 Șuncuiuș Tunnel (approx. 300 m) 596.721 Bălnaca 594,464 Bratca 590.284 Stâna de Vale 588,470 Bulz 584,516 Piatra Craiului 580.163 Lacu Crișului 576 Negreni 573.770 Ciucea 566.708 Poieni 563.750 Bologa 560.102 Brăișoru from Călătele 551,332 Huedin 547.276 Jebuc Tunnel (approx. 300 m) 540.673 Stana 535.830 Gălășeni 532,419 Aghireș hc. Nadăș 529.775 Aghireș 527.904 Dorolțu 526.099 Macau Nadăș Nadăș 522.145 Gârbău 516.002 Nădășel 513,930 Mera 513 Rădaia 511.155 Suceag 507.977 Baciu 506.712 Baciu Triaj 501,924 Cluj-Napoca to Războieni

The Oradea – Cluj-Napoca railway is a main line in Romania . It runs from the Kreischgebiet in western Transylvania through the Apuseni Mountains along the rivers Crișul Repede ( Rapid Screech ) and Nadăș .

history

At the time the railway line described here was built, the region belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary . Transylvania in the east of the country was opened up relatively late by railroad lines. The reason for this was difficult terrain, but also disputes about the route between the Transylvanian cities. Finally, at the end of the 1860s, the construction of two lines leading to Transylvania began almost simultaneously: from Arad to Alba Iulia by the First Transylvanian Railway and from Oradea (German Großwardein , Hungarian Nagyvarad ) to Cluj (German Klausenburg , Hungarian Kolozsvár ) through the Hungarian Eastern Railway. This company under the English entrepreneur Charles Waring quickly continued the work initially started by the Hungarian state.

The Hungarian Eastern Railway was simultaneously building several railway lines within Transylvania and had to be financially supported several times by the Hungarian state. The first of the planned lines went into operation on September 7, 1870, from Oradea to Cluj.

As early as 1876, the company and with it the Oradea – Cluj line were nationalized and taken over by the Hungarian state railway MÁV . At the end of the First World War , Transylvania came to Romania, the Transylvanian railways to the Romanian state railway CFR .

In the Second Vienna Arbitration , Transylvania was divided between Romania and Hungary. The border - which mostly ran a few kilometers south of the railway line - was drawn so that the route belonged entirely to Hungary. In 1944 the line became Romanian again.

Todays situation

The line is not electrified and has two tracks in some sections (Oradea - Săcădat , Telechiu - Aleșd and Poieni - Cluj-Napoca), otherwise single-track. It is part of important long-distance connections within Romania and international traffic. Several express trains run here every day. In addition, there is a brisk freight traffic.

On a website of the CFR from the year 2000 there is talk of plans to expand and electrify the entire line with two tracks; this work should be completed in 2006. So far the project has not been started; it appeared in the program of the Romanian government elected in December 2008 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the railway history of the Alps-Danube-Adriatic region, accessed on April 14, 2009 ( memento of the original from December 20, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Radu Bellu: 130 de ani de la intrarea primului tren în Braşov (PDF; 701 kB)
3. ↑ CFR website, accessed on April 18, 2009 ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Website of the government of Romania, accessed on April 18, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.