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A whistle stop tour of Sinaia railway station, Romania
As I travelled across Romania by train, the railway station at the mountain resort of Sinaia in Prahova County caught my eye. Photo by Andrei Stroe, via Wikimedia Commons Căile Ferate Române 4-6-0 steam locomotive 230-039 was plinthed outside the […]
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Tagged Căile Ferate Române, heritage railways, Romania, steam trains
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Passenger trains of Romania
I only spent a couple of days travelling through Romania, but I did manage to photograph a wide variety of the passenger train fleet that operates across the country.
Staying the night at Brasov railway station
When arriving into a new city late at night, the last thing you want to do is traipse all over town in an attempt to find your hotel. I found myself in this situation when travelling to the Romanian city of Brașov, but my solution didn’t quite work as well as planned.
Budapest to Bucharest by train
Our rail journey from Budapest in Hungary to Bucharest in Romania was a long one, because we made a pit stop in Transylvania to see Dracula’s Castle. So what did we see along the way?
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Tagged Brasov, Bucharest, Budapest, Căile Ferate Române, CFR Călători, Hungarian State Railways, Hungary, Magyar Államvasutak, MÁV, Romania, travel journal
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Stationmasters on guard across Romania
As I travelled by train across Romania, one thing stood out to me – the stationmaster on guard as we rolled through each station.
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Tagged Bucharest, Căile Ferate Române, CFR Călători, out the train window, railways, Romania, snow
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Bucharest to Kiev by train
One of the more interesting legs of our trip across Europe was the 27 hour long train ride from Bucharest in Romania to Kiev in Ukraine. We joined the train in Bucharest, where a Ca(ile Ferate Române (Romania Railways) locomotive hauled the train into the dead end station at Gara de Nord.
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Tagged Bucharest, Căile Ferate Române, CFR Călători, Kiev, Romania, Russian Railways, travel journal, Ukraine
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