Sibiu – Avrig railway line
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Course book route (CFR) : | 200 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 32 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Sibiu – Avrig (Hermannstadt – Freck) railway is a main line in Romania . It runs in the south of Transylvania in the valleys of the Zibin and the Alt .
history
When it was built, the railway line was on the territory of Hungary within the Habsburg dual monarchy . After Sibiu ( Hungarian Nagyszeben ) was connected to the railway network in 1872 by the line leading from Kleinkopisch (Hungarian Kiskapus ), the expansion of further rail connections from Sibiu, the economic and cultural center of the then , began with the route to Freck (Hungarian Felek ) Transylvanian Saxony .
The construction was carried out by the private "Aktiengesellschaft der Hermannstadt-Frecker Eisenbahn" and was completed with the commissioning on September 13, 1892.
The railway line was a prerequisite for the construction of the railway lines to Fogarasch and Kronstadt as well as to the south through the Rotenturm Pass over the then Hungarian-Romanian border. With the opening of the continuous connection to Kronstadt , it gained supra-regional importance.
After the end of the First World War , the route described here and its connecting lines came to Romania.
From 1910 to 2001 the trains of the narrow-gauge railway Hermannstadt – Agnetheln (–Schäßburg) used the regular gauge line Sibiu - Moichen by means of a third rail .
Todays situation
The line is not electrified and has two tracks between Sibiu and Podu Olt, otherwise a single track. Several express trains run daily. The connection is also important for freight transport.
Individual evidence
- ^ Yearbook of the Transylvanian Carpathian Union. Transylvanian Carpathian Association, 1890, p. 108
- ↑ The Sibiu chronicle www.roland-giesel.de, accessed March 30, 2009