87 0011 at Nocrich, Romania. 1995.
87 0011 a 760mm gauge B-BDH built by FAUR (Uzinele 23 August Works) in Romania is seen at Nocrich on the Sibiu to Agnita narrow gauge line which has sadly now closed.
With only two trains a day in each direction on this line when I took this, plus a short working between Sibiu and Cornăţel this train was something of a mystery. It appeared to convey passengers but wasn't in the timetable. Some shunting was about to take place as train 2921 the 11.15 Agnita to Sibiu had failed with 87 0038 having expired in the station. I suspect therefore this loco and set of coaches had worked train 2931 05.00 Cornăţel to Sibiu then instead of sitting all day at Sibu to make the 19.25 back to Cornăţel had instead run as an extra to Nocrich to rescue the failed 11.15 ex Agnita but why bring the coaches and collect passengers on route in the wrong direction ? Something of a mystery ! My only reasoning for this is it might have collected passengers that would otherwise have sat waiting at the unstaffed stations on route for the the 11.15 ex Agnita for what was getting on for over two hours in the baking summer sunshine. At least they were on the move albeit initially in the wrong direction.
87 0011 at Nocrich, Romania. 1995.
87 0011 a 760mm gauge B-BDH built by FAUR (Uzinele 23 August Works) in Romania is seen at Nocrich on the Sibiu to Agnita narrow gauge line which has sadly now closed.
With only two trains a day in each direction on this line when I took this, plus a short working between Sibiu and Cornăţel this train was something of a mystery. It appeared to convey passengers but wasn't in the timetable. Some shunting was about to take place as train 2921 the 11.15 Agnita to Sibiu had failed with 87 0038 having expired in the station. I suspect therefore this loco and set of coaches had worked train 2931 05.00 Cornăţel to Sibiu then instead of sitting all day at Sibu to make the 19.25 back to Cornăţel had instead run as an extra to Nocrich to rescue the failed 11.15 ex Agnita but why bring the coaches and collect passengers on route in the wrong direction ? Something of a mystery ! My only reasoning for this is it might have collected passengers that would otherwise have sat waiting at the unstaffed stations on route for the the 11.15 ex Agnita for what was getting on for over two hours in the baking summer sunshine. At least they were on the move albeit initially in the wrong direction.