Gara Timișoara North

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Gara de Nord, 2007
The second station building, completed in 1899

The Timişoara Nord railway station is the main station of the Romanian city of Timisoara . It is located in the northwest of the city, on the Piața Gării. The Strada Gării, the Strada General Ion Dragalina and the Bulevardul Republicii run towards this in a star shape. The tracks and the station building are in the 5th district of Mehala , but the border to the 4th district of Iosefin runs directly on the station forecourt . The train station is about one and a half kilometers from the inner city, and the walk to Piața Victoriei takes about 15 minutes.

In addition to this train station, there are also the Timișoara Est stations in the Fabric district, Timișoara Sud in the Fratelia district and Timișoara Vest in the Freidorf district. On the southern city limits, there is also the Timișoara CET stop at the power plant of the same name. In the north, the large Ronaț Triaj marshalling yard is in operation, in whose area the three stations Rona R Triaj Cabina 1 h. , Ronaț Triaj h. and Ronaț Triaj Gr. D are located. There used to be a stop in the hunting forest , which was originally called Vadászerdői szakiskola and later Timișoara Școala Silvică after the forest school there .

Surname

Railway Officially the station was originally called - to Austrian time - Timisoara before the consecutive Austro-Hungarian balance of 1867, the Hungarian name Temesvar received. When the city got a second train station in today's Fabric district in 1876 , the first one was henceforth called Temesvár-Józsefváros - according to the Hungarian name of the district Iosefin at the time. From the annexation of the Banat to Romania in 1919 , the station was finally temporarily called Timișoara Domnița Elena ( German  Timișoara Princess Elena ). It was named after Elena of Greece , the queen mother of Romania. He used this name until 1947, since then he has officially been called Timișoara Nord .

In the city itself, the train station used to be called Józsefvárosi Indóház or Józsefvárosi pályaudvar ( German  Josefstädter Bahnhof ), later Gara din Iosefin , Gara Domnița Elena , Gara de Nord ( German  North Station ) or Gara mare ( German  large train station ). The latter name is used to distinguish it from Gara mica ( German  small train station ) in the Fabric district.

history

On November 15, 1857, what was then Timişoara received a connection to the railway network of the private Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company (StEG). At that time, the new route from Szeged via Kikinda and Jimbolia reached the capital of the Banat . The first station was thus a terminus .

Shortly after it opened, the station became a through station when, on July 20, 1858, the line coming from the west via Stamora Moravița to Jasenovo in today's Serbia was extended. With the opening of the Arad line on April 6, 1871 , which belonged to the Arad-Temesvári Vasúttársaság (ATV), but was operated by the Theiss Railway until its nationalization in 1880 , a separation station was finally created . With the commissioning of the line to Caransebeş on October 23, 1876, the city finally became a railway junction .

When both the StEG and the ATV were nationalized in 1891, the Hungarian state railway Magyar Államvasutak (MÁV) temporarily took over the entire operation of the station. Finally, between 1897 and 1899, she also built the second station building, which replaced the original building from 1857. From 1897, however, a private railway operated again from Timișoara. This was the Temesvár – Módosi helyi érdekű vasút részvénytársaság founded on May 15, 1896 , the German equivalent was Temesvár – Módoser Local Railway Actiengesellschaft .

During the Second World War , the station was heavily bombed by the Allies in the summer of 1944 . The reconstruction took place largely according to the original plans, although the facade was a bit simpler. In the 1970s, the station building was finally completely modernized. The architectural style was changed in 1976, the "socialist architectural style" still characterizes the station today.

Connection

Horse-drawn carriages in front of the train station, around the turn of the century

In 2007, around 50,000 travelers frequented the station every day, which resulted in a total of around 18 million travelers this year. There are currently around 150 trains a day stopping at the six platforms . This makes Timișoara North station one of the busiest stations in the country.

The passenger trains of the Căile Ferate Române and Regiotrans operate here, as well as freight trains operated by the state-owned CFR Marfa and the Feroviar Român Group . In long-distance passenger rail transport, there are daily connections to Bucharest , Arad , Brașov , Cluj-Napoca , Iași , Oradea , Satu Mare , Sibiu , Sighetu Marmației , Suceava and many other Romanian cities. In addition to national traffic, the station also serves international traffic, with direct train connections to Belgrade , Budapest and Vienna .

Railway lines

In the Timișoara Nord junction station, five lines are linked, which were opened - and later mostly extended - as follows:

  • November 15, 1857: Szeged – Timișoara Nord (in the Szőreg– Kikinda section closed today)
  • July 20, 1858: Timișoara Nord – Jasenovo (in the section Vršac –Jasenovo closed today)
  • April 6, 1871: Timișoara North – Arad
  • October 23, 1876: Timișoara North – Caransebeş
  • July 31, 1897: Timișoara Nord – Jaša Tomić (in the section Cruceni – Jaša Tomić closed today)

There are also two connecting curves to the west of the station , which enable trains from the east and south to travel directly to the Ronaț freight station and back without having to change direction at the north station. In the suburban train stations, three further routes branch off, which are usually also assigned to the Timișoara railway junction:

  • Ronaț Triaj Gr. D: to Sânnicolau Mare , opened on September 25, 1895
  • Timișoara Sud: to Buziaș , opened on November 18, 1896
  • Timișoara Est: after Radna , opened on May 29, 1897

Web links

Commons : Gara Timișoara Nord  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Description of the Vadászerdői szakiskola site on vasutallomasok.hu
  2. ↑ Description of the Timișoara șc office. Silv. on vasutallomasok.hu
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ 140 ani de la primul transport de călători CFR Arad-Timişoara on www.aradon.ro
  5. ↑ The Banat - always on the cutting edge of technology at www.banater-aktualitaet.de
  6. ↑ Valentin Ivănescu: Cronica ilustrată a Regionalei CFR Timişoara on banaterra.eu

Coordinates: 45 ° 45 ′ 3.4 ″  N , 21 ° 12 ′ 27.9 ″  E