Simeria – Petroșani – Filiași railway line

Simeria – Petroşani – Filiaşi

Railway station in Simeria

Line of the Simeria – Petroșani – Filiași railway line

Course book route (CFR) :

202

Route length:

204 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Legend

93

	0.00	Simeria
		Sebeş – Deva railway line
		to Hunedoara
	6:00 am	Băcia
	8.00	Batiz
	10.00	Calanu Mic
	13.00	Călan
	17.00	Ruși
	19.00	Măceu
	22.00	Bretea Streiului
	24.00	Plopi
	26.00	Covragiu
		to Hațeg
	29.00	Subcetate
	33.00	Ciopeia
	35.00	Ohaba de sub Piatra hc.
	37.00	Băeşti
	38.00	Rușor hc.
	43.00	Pui
	47.00	Ponor hc.
	48.00	Livadia
	51.00	Baru
	53.00	Baru hc.
	56.00	Crivadia
	61.00	Merișor
	67.00	Bănița
	73.00	Peştera Bolii
	76.00	Petroșani Triaj
	79.00	Petroșani
	84.00	Livezeni
		according to Lupeni
	88.00	Strîmbuța
	94.00	Pietrele Albe
	100.00	Lainici
	107.00	Meri
	112.00	Valea Sadului
	115.00	Bumbeşti-Jiu
	121.00	Parângu
	124.00	Ezureni hc.
	127.00	Ecaterina Teodoroiu
	130.00	Ramnificația CAM hc.
	131.00	Târgu Jiu
		to Rovinari
	138.00	Lunca Budieni hc.
	142.00	Budieni hc.
	146.00	Copăcioasa
	150.00	Scoarța hc.
	155.00	Pojogeni
	158.00	Târgu Cărbuneşti
	162.00	Jupâneşti
	170.00	Bărbăteşti
	174.00	Musculeşti
	178.00	Bibeşti
	185.00	Turburea
	192.00	Gilortu
	196.00	Florești hc.
	199.00	Țânțăreni
		Craiova – Drobeta Turnu Severin railway line
	204.00	Filiași

The Simeria – Petroșani – Filiași railway is a main line in Romania . The 204 kilometer long railway line runs from the southwest of Transylvania to the historic region of Wallachia ( Romanian Țara Românească ).

Route

From the small town of Simeria ( German fish village ) in the Hunedoara district - south of the Transylvanian Ore Mountains - in a southerly direction, in the valley of the Strei ( Strell ), the railway line runs over the Transylvanian Alps through the mining area near Petroşani ( Petroschen ), to the small town of Filiaşi in the Dolj district in the historical region of Little Wallachia ( Oltenia ).

After the small town of Petroșani, the railway line runs south along the Jiu through the Lainici Pass to Târgu Jiu . Then in an easterly and then again in a southerly direction in the valley of the Gilorts , the Romanian main line 202 ends in the small town of Filiași.

Other small towns along the railway line to the south are in the Hunedoara Călan district ; in the district of Gorj Bumbeşti-Jiu and Târgu Cărbuneşti .

This route is used by the Rail Cargo Group- operated container trains from Duisburg via Vienna , Budapest , Giurgiu , Ruse and Stara Zagora to Tekirdag , which are hauled by an ÖBB 1116 as far as the Turkish border station at Kapikule .