Salva – Vișeu de Jos railway line

Salva – Vişeu de Jos
Viaduct at Telciu
Course book route (CFR) :	409
Route length:	60.428 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend by Beclean pe Someș 0.000 Salva after Rodna Veche 9.484 Coșbuc Sălăuța 12 Bichigiu 15,201 Telciu 20th Fiezel 24,559 Fiad 31,260 Romuli 37.033 Dealul Ștefăniței Tunnel (2388 m length) Iza 45.187 Săcel 52.255 Iza Tunnel (approx. 700 m length) from Borșa 60.428 Vișeu de Jos to Valea Vișeului

The Salva – Vișeu de Jos railway is a main line in Romania . It runs from the north of Transylvania into the Maramureș basin .

history

The construction of the line was made necessary by political circumstances. In 1872 the Satu Mare – Sighetu Marmației railway was opened. This connected the Maramureș basin to the railway network through the Tisza valley . At that time, the entire region belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary within the Habsburg dual monarchy . By the lines Sighetu Marmației – Ivano-Frankiwsk (1895) and Valea Vişeului – Borşa (1913) further areas of the Maramureş were opened up.

At the end of the First World War , Austria-Hungary fell apart. In the Treaty of Trianon , Transylvania came to Romania; the Máramaros County (Maramureş) was between Romania and Czechoslovakia divided. The new state border also crossed the Satu Mare – Sighetu Marmației line, so that the railway lines in the Romanian part of Maramureș had no connection to the rest of the country's railway network.

In the interwar period, the Romanian government was considering building a railway line from Transylvania into the Maramureş basin. At the end of the 1930s, Salva began on the Beclean pe Someş – Rodna Veche railway line to build a line in the Sălăuța valley to reach Vişeu de Jos via the Șetref pass . In 1939 the 15 km long section from Salva to Telciu was put into operation. The continuation required the construction of several bridges and tunnels, so it was initially decided to build a narrow-gauge railway that started from Telciu and reached the railway line Valea Vişeului – Borşa near the town of Moisei . It opened in 1940.

As a result of the Vienna arbitration awards in 1939/1940, both northern Transylvania and the entire Maramureş (ie both the Romanian and the Czechoslovak part) came back to Hungary; the connection between Salva and Vișeu de Jos lost its importance. The completion of the standard gauge railway was not pursued by the Hungarian authorities.

After the Second World War , the Maramureș was divided again at the Paris Peace Conference in 1946 ; the southern part came back to Romania, the northern part this time not to Czechoslovakia, but to the Soviet Union . As a result, the construction started in the pre-war period became more topical for Romania.

In 1948 and 1949 the missing section between Telciu and Vișeu de Jos was completed. The construction of several viaducts and five tunnels was necessary, of which the tunnel under the Șetref pass between the Țibleş and Rodna mountains with a length of 2,388 m was the longest. The opening ceremony took place on December 28, 1949 in Dealul Ștefăniței .

Todays situation

The line is single-track and not electrified. Several express and local trains run daily.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} ADZ.ro of March 26, 2009, accessed on May 17, 2009 ( Memento of April 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ David Turnock: Railway Network Development in inter-war Romania: Economic and Strategic Motives. In: Geographica Pannonica. No. 8, 2004, ISSN  0351-3238 , pp. 16-24, online (PDF; 2.09 MB) .
3. ↑ CFR website, accessed on May 17, 2009 ( Memento of October 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

gallery

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  Route near Coşbuc

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  Train station in Romuli

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  Train station in Dealul Ştefaniţei

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  Bridge at Dealul Ştefaniţei

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  Dealul Ştefaniţei tunnel

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  Railway station in Vişeu de Jos

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  Railway station in Vişeu de Jos

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  Railway station in Vişeu de Jos