Hunedoara – Ghelari industrial railway

Hunedoara-Ghelari
Retișoara Viaduct
Route length:	16 km
Gauge :	760 mm ( Bosnian gauge )
Maximum slope :	25–27  ‰
Minimum radius :	40-50 m
Top speed:	20 km / h
Legend Hunedoara steel mill Hunedoara West Railway Station First bridge in a curve Engine shed 1.000 Hp Zlaşti valley bridge over DJ687J Connection stockpile of the Zlasti lime works 2.300 Hp Zlaşti Second bridge in a curve 4.270 Hp Cocoș Tunnel (747 m) 6.584 Hp Cățănaș bridge 8.000 Tunnel (42 m) in a curve 8.162 bridge 8.186 bridge 8.194 bridge 8.475 Hp Tulea 9.920 Bridge over the Govăjdia Street DJ687F bridge 10.360 Bf Govăjdia bridge Street DJ687F Bridge over the Nădrab bridge Connection to the Govăjdia blast furnace heap 12.000 Hp Nădrab Bü Street DJ687F 13.840 Conn Crăciuneasa Bridge over the Nădrab Tunnel in a curve (44 m) Third bridge in a curve Retișoara valley bridge Bü Street DC110A 16.200 Bh Retișoara

The Hunedoara – Ghelari industrial line (also known as the Transylvanian mine railway ) was built in 1900 in Transylvania, then Hungary . It transported iron ore , lime and talc , which was mined in the mountains near Ghelari and Crăciuneasa , to the steelworks in Hunedoara . The castle Hunedoara is located directly on the route.

After 1970 the route was gradually shortened and in 1990 passenger traffic was discontinued. For freight traffic , locomotives of the type L45H were then mainly used, which came from the locomotive factory August 23 in Bucharest . In the 1990s, the operation was limited to the section Hunedoara - Zlaşti ( Hungarian Zalasd ). From the end of 2006 traffic was idle. In 2009 the route was removed. The vehicles were sold. A local association is committed to rebuilding it as a museum railway .

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  Inauguration of the railway line near Retișoara (1900)

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  Bridge in the Zlaşti Valley around 1900 ...

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  ... and 2011 (rebuilt in 1989)

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  Govăjdia station (around 1900)

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  Railway line near Hunedoara Castle around 1900 ...

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  ... and 1995

Web links

Commons : Industriebahn Hunedoara – Ghelari  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Route on OpenStreetMap
• Rudolf Hanzelik, Dan Bera: History of Rescue and Restoration Efforts. Mocănița Hunedoara, June 4, 2012, accessed December 2, 2017 (Romanian). 
• 130 pictures of the railway line at picssr.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hunedoara – Ghelari industrial railway. In: 760net.heimat.eu. 2012, accessed November 24, 2017 .