Oravița – Anina railway line
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 Viaduct of the route
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| Course book route (CFR) : | 925 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 33.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Oravița – Anina railway is a 33.4 kilometer branch line in Romania . The standard-gauge mountain railway runs in the southeast of the Romanian Banat from Oravița (Orawitz) to Anina (Steierdorf) .
The route in the Anina Mountains (Munții Aninei) in the Caraș-Severin district , also known as the Romanian Semmering Railway or Banat Montan Railway , follows the district road (drum județean) DJ 573 to Anina in a north-easterly direction . It crosses the Lișava , Dobra , Natra and Gârliște streams and overcomes a difference in altitude of 338 meters. Today (2019) the railway line runs for 21 kilometers - two thirds of the original route - also over ten viaducts and passes 14 tunnels, the longest of which is at Gârliște (660 meters; location ).
history
Because of increased coal mining in the Anina Mountains, Anton Rappos planned in 1847 a railway line from Oravița to Lișava on what was then Hungary within the Habsburg dual monarchy . After the Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company took over the construction work in 1855 , the railway was first opened for freight and then for passenger traffic in 1863. In 1918 the line came to the Romanian state railway Căile Ferate Române , or CFR for short, as a result of the Trianon Peace Treaty , which awarded part of the Banat Romania
The engineers Anton Rappos and Karl Dülnig were involved in the construction of the mountain railway ; the architects Karl Maniel and Johann Ludwig Dollhoff-Dier involved.
Until spring 2015, Oravița could be reached by passenger trains of the railway company Regiotrans (today Regio Calatori), which continued to run to Iam . For the timetable change on December 10, 2017, a pair of trains was initially set up, followed by a further pair of trains on January 1, 2018 between Berzovia and Oravița, which means that the route to Anina can again be reached by train.
Today it is a listed building and is served by a pair of trains every day.
gallery
Web links
- The Romanian railway network on weltkarte.com
- Map of the Romanian railway network (PDF; 260 kB)
- Description, video and pictures of the Oravița – Anina railway line on festivaluri-romanesti.ro
- Several videos about the Oravița – Anina railway on oravita-anina.eu
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Oravița – Anina railway line at intercultural.ro ( memento from November 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on November 20, 2016 (Romanian).
- ↑ Florin-Josef Lătărețu: Steierdorf-Anina in the Banat, Romania (PDF; 160 kB).
- ↑ a b List of historical monuments in the Caraș-Severin district of the Romanian Ministry of Culture, updated 2015 (PDF; 840 kB).
- ↑ Information on the Oravița – Anina railway line at oravita-anina.eu accessed on November 20, 2016 (multilingual).
- ↑ Berzovia – Oravita course book table. Regio Calatori SA, December 10, 2017, accessed April 10, 2018 (Romanian).
- ↑ LOK Report - Romania: Oravița - Anina railway operations continue. Retrieved December 13, 2019 (German).