Vurpăr branch line

Vurpăr branch line

The Agnita line joining the mainline.
Overview
Type Narrow-gauge
System Căile Ferate Române
Status Closed
Locale Sibiu County,
Romania
Termini Cornăţel
Vurpăr
Stations 2
Operation
Opened 1910
Closed 1993
Owner CFR Infrastructură
Operator(s) CFR Călători[1]
Character Rural Branch line
Technical
Line length 12.45 km (7.74 mi)
No. of tracks 1
Route map

Agnita railway line & Vurpăr branch map

Legend
Mainline 300 to Sighișoara
Angofa
Saeș River
Şaeş
Saeș River
Apold
Brădeni
Mureș County
Sibiu County
Netuş
Iacobeni
Stejărişu
Ruja
Agnita
Coveș
Coveș River
Vărd
Benești
Alțâna
Nocrich
Vurpăr
Țichindeal
Roșia
Hosman
Cornăţel
Cașolț
Bolovani
Mainline 200 to Sibiu

The Vurpăr branch line was a Narrow-gauge rail line Sibiu County, Romania. Originally it stretched from Cornăţel on the Agnita railway line to the terminus in Vurpăr.[2] CFR classed the line, along with the Agnita railway line, as line 204 in the last years of operation. The Sibiu Steam Locomotives Museum holds locomotives used on the lines.

History

The line was originally opened by the Sighisoara - Sibiu Local Railways Company in 1910.[3] As the line originally lay within Hungary, the Hungarian State Railways operated services until 1919 (when Transylvania became part of Romania). CFR then continued to operate services until closure in 1993.[4]

Reopening

Societatea Feroviară de Turism (SFT) originally planned to reopen the line as a tourist route but plans where shelved in 2006. After threats from CFR Infrastructură that track would be lifted all the rail infrastructure became protected as a historic monument in 2008. Currently there is an active project called Asociația Prietenii Mocăniței ("Friends of the Narrow-gauge railway") and aimed at restoring the line for tourist operation along with the Agnita railway line.[5]

Bibliography

References

  1. "CFR Interactive Map". Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  2. "Beyond The Forest (Narrow-gauge)". Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  3. Lacriţeanu 1995, 86
  4. Engelbert 2011, 136
  5. "Sibiu Agnita railway Society". Retrieved 9 August 2015.
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