Rădăuți – Brodina railway line

Rădăuți – Brodina
Railway station in Gura Putnei
Course book route (CFR) :	515
Route length:	41.50 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Dorneşti 8.140 Rădăuți 13.504 Horodnic 19.857 Gălăneşti 25,572 Vicovu de Jos 28.212 Vicovu de Sus 31,135 Bivolăria 33,581 Gura Putnei after Putna Putna 41.224 Straja Suceava 46.135 Falcau 49.641 Brodina to Izvoarele Sucevei

The Rădăuți – Brodina line is a branch line in Romania . It runs in the northeast of the country through the Bukowina, mainly in the valley of the Suceava River and through the Obcina Mare mountains .

history

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

In 1889, the Dorneşti – Rădăuți line of the Bukowinaer Lokalbahnen company went into operation, which was taken over by the New Bukowinaer Lokalbahn a few years later . In 1895 this company received the concession to continue building the line as a standard-gauge railway in the Suceava valley to Brodina (then Frassin ). The concession stipulated that construction work should begin immediately and be completed by July 1, 1898. The line together with the branch line to Putna was finally opened on July 7, 1898.

During the First World War , the railway line was in the area of ​​intense fighting between Austro-Hungarian and Russian troops.

After the war, the Bukovina came to Romania; the route was taken over by the Romanian state railway CFR .

Current situation

The line is single-track and not electrified. It is part of the course book route 515 from Dorneşti to Nisipitu or Putna and is only of local importance. Currently (2009) around five local trains run daily between Rădăuți and Gura Putnei in both directions.

In July 2008, the route was damaged by floods. While the section from Rădăuți to Gura Putnei was quickly put back into operation together with the branch line to Putna, the already deficit section from Gura Putnei to Nisipitu has since been out of service and will probably not be restored.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat. 76th piece. Issued November 5, 1895
2. ^ Association of German Tram and Small Railroad Administrations: Journal for Small Railways. Berlin 1898. p. 462
3. ↑ Maximilian Ehnl, Edwin Sacken: Austria-Hungary's last war, 1914-1918. The war year 1917. Verlag der Militärwissenschaftlichen Mitteilungen. Vienna 1930. p. 326
4. ^ Website of the Romanian Ministry of Transport, accessed on May 10, 2009 ( Memento of November 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )