Sibiu – Avrig railway line

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Sibiu-Avrig
Line of the Sibiu – Avrig railway line
Course book route (CFR) : 200
Route length: 32 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route - straight ahead
from Copșa Mică (Kleinopisch)
   
by Vințu de Jos
Station, station
392.20 Sibiu (Hermannstadt)
Stop, stop
389 Sibiu Triaj
Stop, stop
387 Șelimbăr (Schellenberg)
   
to Cisnădie (Heltau)
Stop, stop
384.20 Mohu
   
Narrow-gauge railway to Agnita (Agnetheln)
Stop, stop
381.88 Veştem
Station, station
374.29 Tălmaciu (Talmesch)
   
Cibin (Zibin)
Station, station
370.11
127
Podu Olt
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Olt (old)
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to Turnu Roșu (Rotenturm Pass)
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Stop, stop
125.33 Sebeş Olt
Stop, stop
122.95 Racoviță
Stop, stop
120.27 Mârşa
   
Avrig (Frecker Bach)
Station, station
116.61 Avrig (Freck)
Route - straight ahead
to Făgăraș (Fogarasch)

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

  1. ^ Yearbook of the Transylvanian Carpathian Union. Transylvanian Carpathian Association, 1890, p. 108
  2. The Sibiu chronicle www.roland-giesel.de, accessed March 30, 2009