Caile Ferate Industri

The Căile Ferate Industri (CFI) was a Romanian railway company . She was the concessionaire of the nationalized industrial railways . Sister companies were the Căile Ferate Române (CFR) and the Căile Ferate Forestiere (CFF).

These included the meter-gauge railway line from Brad to Crișcior , which opened in 1907 . Its purpose was in particular the transport of lignite from the joint transshipment station with the CFR to the power plant in Crișcior. In the 1970s there was also passenger traffic. This railway receives support from the railway workshop CFI (Calea Ferata Ingusta) from Georg Hocevar in Brad, so that special tourist trains now run there.

In 1913, the 45-kilometer forest and factory railway from Borsec to Toplița , known as the Borsec mineral water railway , was built . This was operated jointly by the CFF and the CFI. Mainly tree trunks and mineral water were transported. The closure of the local timber industry in 1996 meant that the railway was no longer in regular use, so it was shut down.

Another railway served the coal mines of Anina . This was built in the middle of the 19th century under difficult geological conditions - the route had to be partially carved out of the rock and retaining walls built. The coal was later transported from Lisava to Anina to the local power station. The trains were initially hauled by horses and from the 1860s onwards with steam locomotives. In the 1990s, the end of the socialist era led, among other things, to the closure of the coal mines. As a result, operations on the industrial railway were also stopped and most of the station buildings were demolished.

literature

• Stefan Schnyder: Narrow Gauge Railways in Romania , 2014 edition, 2nd edition