in Piatra Neamț
Piatra Neamț is a mid-sized city (80k pop.) în central-north-eastern România, where we spent the first week of our România-trip. The history of the railway here is quite interesting, because across the first half century years of existance of the trains here, it got many different iterations.
The first line reached the city in 1885 and was a meter-gauge line from Bacău. It was reconstructed to standard gauge a mere 8 years later, which seems to be the case with a lot of Romanian railway lines.
This line originally terminated at the station Veche in the eastern part of the city (roughly around the current street Gara Veche - meaning 'Old Station'). Nothing remains of the old station because already in 1913 the one currently in use was opened, closer to the city center. From there, the line towards Bicaz was constructed further with the works being finished by 1951.
And so, with the morning train 5472 from Bicaz to Piatra Neamț, with the coaches later being connected to a direct interregio service to Bacău, 60-1335 is seen arriving at the terminus, passing the beautiful semaphore signal.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
in Piatra Neamț
Piatra Neamț is a mid-sized city (80k pop.) în central-north-eastern România, where we spent the first week of our România-trip. The history of the railway here is quite interesting, because across the first half century years of existance of the trains here, it got many different iterations.
The first line reached the city in 1885 and was a meter-gauge line from Bacău. It was reconstructed to standard gauge a mere 8 years later, which seems to be the case with a lot of Romanian railway lines.
This line originally terminated at the station Veche in the eastern part of the city (roughly around the current street Gara Veche - meaning 'Old Station'). Nothing remains of the old station because already in 1913 the one currently in use was opened, closer to the city center. From there, the line towards Bicaz was constructed further with the works being finished by 1951.
And so, with the morning train 5472 from Bicaz to Piatra Neamț, with the coaches later being connected to a direct interregio service to Bacău, 60-1335 is seen arriving at the terminus, passing the beautiful semaphore signal.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus