Forest railway Tismana

Route (as of 1996)

Route length:

As of 1996: 54 km

84	Turnu Severin	k. A.
11	Apa Neagra	262 m
0	Tismana	198 m
10	Vertex	270 m
13	Boroşteni	k. A.
15th	Peştişani	242 m
43	Târgu Jiu	209 m

The forest railway Tismana was a Romanian forest railway . The branched system opened up the area Paltinei - Tismana - Apa Neagra - Closani - Turnu Severin . Like all forest railways in the country, it was operated by the state company Căile Ferate Forestiere (CFF) and had a track width of 760 millimeters .

history

764 409 by train to Apa Neagra on September 25, 1996 in Tismana. On the right in the background are the locomotive treatment systems with the water tower.

The first section of the Tismana Forest Railway opened in 1938. In 1957, the 43-kilometer main section Târgu Jiu –Tismana went into operation. The entire network covered around 260 kilometers, on which around ten train sets operated. For the branch in Tismana, the CFF owned up to 16 steam and diesel locomotives and 126 freight cars. Each locomotive pulled 15 to 16 cars, and the train crew consisted of six people each. Among them were a driver , a stoker and four brakemen . The branch from Apa Neagra to Turnu Severin was 75 kilometers long and was closed in 1959. Tismana was the departure and arrival station of the trains to Apa Neagra and Târgu Jiu on the remaining route network. In Tismana, Apa Neagra and Târgu Jiu, the locomotives were turned by means of a track triangle in order to move all trains chamber ahead. From 1973 to March 1997 operations were gradually discontinued. The vehicles were sold abroad. 764 376 went to the Feldbahn-Museum 500 Nürnberg (Germany), the 764 412 to the Flick car dealership in Hagenbach (Germany), the 764 480 to the ÖGEG in Steyr (Austria), the 764 490 to the JMHD (Czech Republic) and the 764 409 to the Oldtimer Museum Ruegen (Germany). The 764 434 and 764 435 went to the Tschagguns Rhine Regulatory Railway (Austria). In 1998 the line was dismantled. There are only a few remains of the Tismana forest railway.

Route description

The route from Tismana to Târgu Jiu ran in a west-east direction. The district at the former station of the forest railway is called Tismana-Gară (German Tismana-Bahnhof ). To the east of Tismana-Gară, the route circumnavigated the village of Vânata to the south and east, before continuing through loosely wooded areas and pastures to reach the Boroşteni timber loading station. There were several loading tracks and two portal cranes in Boroşteni. East of Boroşteni, the Bistrița river was crossed with a concrete bridge. West of Brădiceni, the route passed the station building that was once used for passenger traffic. South of Brădiceni, the tracks crossed the DJ672 district road , to which the line to the village of Buduhala ran parallel to the east. The railway then ran parallel to the DN67 national road to Slobozia at a distance of approx. 100 m . To the east of Slobozia, the route turned to the north in order to cross the Jiu River on a 3-span concrete bridge about 200 m south of the dam of the northern hydropower plant . In the urban area of Târgu Jiu, the train crossed a prefabricated building area and crossed a trolleybus line with the “Bulevardul Ecaterina Teodoroiu” . The line ended in the standard gauge station Ramificaspia.

Former Brădiceni station (1996)
Bridge over the Jiu River (1996)
Târgu Jiu through town (1996)

The route from Tismana-Gară to Apa Neagra ran north parallel to the national road DN67D in an east-west direction. In Apa Neagra the DN67D was crossed twice.