Railway line Valea Vişeului – Borşa
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 Railway station in Valea Vișeului
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The railway line Valea Vișeului – Borșa is a railway connection in Romania . It runs through the Maramureș County in the valley of the Vișeu River .
history
During the construction of the line, the region was on the territory of Hungary within the Habsburg dual monarchy . In 1872 the Satu Mare – Sighetu Marmației railway was opened. This connected the Maramureș basin to the railway network through the Tisza valley . The line Sighetu Marmației – Ivano-Frankivsk (1895) further areas of the Maramureș were opened up.
After that, the Hungarian government planned to build a line to the southeast of Máramaros County . The main aim was to facilitate the transport of wood from the forest areas of the Carpathian Mountains and to gain access to the ore deposits at Baia Borșa ( Borsabánya in Hungarian ). Starting from Valea Vişeului (Hungarian Visóvölgy ) on the Sighetu Marmației – Ivano-Frankiwsk railway line, a standard-gauge railway was built along the Vişeu river via Vişeu de Sus (German Oberwischau , Hungarian Felsővisó ) to Borşa (Hungarian Borsa , German Borscha ) and opened to traffic in 1913.
In the Treaty of Trianon after the end of the First World War , the southern part of Máramaros County ( Maramures ) came to Romania, the northern part to Czechoslovakia . The border was drawn in such a way that the railway line described here came completely to Romania. It was taken over by the state railway company CFR . Due to the new borders, the route and the connection to Sighetu Marmației were separated from the rest of the Romanian railway network. Trains ran between Sighetu Marmației and Borșa. The Wassertalbahn was built from the Vișeu de Sus station between 1930 and 1933 .
In the interwar period, the Romanian government started building a connection from northern Transylvania to Maramures, but was unable to complete it. In 1940, only one small railway going out of Telciu went into operation, which reached the railway line in the Maramures near the village of Moisei . In the same year Romania had to cede its part of the Maramures to Hungary again due to the Second Vienna Arbitration .
After the Second World War , the Maramureș was divided again at the Paris Peace Conference in 1946 ; the southern part came back to Romania. As a result, the construction of the connection from northern Transylvania to Maramures, which had begun in the prewar period, became more topical for Romania. In 1949 the Salva – Vişeu de Jos railway was opened, which also significantly increased the importance of the line described here; this became part of the rail link between Maramures and the rest of the country.
In March 1997, the section between Vişeu de Jos and Borşa was closed for passenger traffic. It was acquired by SC RG Holz Company SRL , which also operates the Wassertalbahn.
Todays situation
The line is single-track and not electrified. Several express and local trains run daily. The section from Vişeu de Jos to Borşa is still owned by SC RG Holz Company SRL and is only used for freight traffic.
Individual evidence
- ^ Academia Republicii Socialiste România: Revue Roumaine de Géologie, Géophysique Et Géographie. Bucharest, 1979. p. 144
- ↑ http://www.myotherdrive.com/file/673.161321.15032008.07620.0067fi/MM.odt (link not available)
- ↑ a b ADZ.ro of March 26, 2009, accessed on May 19, 2009 ( Memento of April 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ D. Turnock: Railway Network Development in inter-war Romania: Economic and Strategic Motives. In Geographica Pannonica 2003, issue 8, pp. 16-24
- ^ Branch Line News International ( ISSN 1354-0947 ). A newsletter about the world's railway geography and infrastructure. 1997
gallery
Train station in Valea Vișeului
Railway station in Valea Vișeului
Bocicoel stop
Bridge over the Vișeu river near Bistra
Bocicoel stop
Railway station in Vișeu de Jos
Railway station in Vișeu de Jos
Railway station in Vișeu de Jos
