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1870 – Iași railway station opens. 1884 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Iași founded. [11] 1887 – Metropolitan Cathedral consecrated. 1888 – 17 February: Copou Theatre burns down. 1896 – Iași National Theatre building constructed. 1900 Electric Trams in Iași begin operating. Population: 78,067. [2]
Opened in 1870, the Grand Railway Station first connected Iași to Chernivtsi in Bukovina, Austria-Hungary and, after two years, to Bucharest. The original building designed by Julian Oktawian Zachariewicz-Lwigród [ 1 ] and inspired by the Doge's Palace of the Republic of Venice , is 133.8 metres (439 ft ) long, has 113 rooms and is listed in ...
It was the first railway in Paris and the first in France designed solely for the carriage of passengers and operated using steam locomotives. The western section from Saint-Germain to Nanterre is now part of the RER A, the busiest railway line in Europe. 1837 – Robert Davidson built the first electric locomotive.
Electrification of the Romanian railway network was expedited during the 1950s and 1960s while the country was under a communist regime. In 2007, based on data from 2005, the CIA World Factbook listed Romania 23rd of the largest railway networks in the world. [5] As of 2009, the length of the Romanian railway network was 10,788 km (6,703 mi). [6]
Polish Private Railway Przedsiębiorstwo Transportu Kolejowego Holding SA Zabrze-Locomotive typ BR232. Hungary CER Vasúti Zrt; Magyar Magánvasút ZRt. (MMV) Mátrai Erőmű Zrt. MÁV-Hajdú Vasútépítő Kft. Train Hungary Magánvasút Kft; Poland Connex Polska sp. z o.o; KOLEJ NZGTK; KP Szczakowa S.A. KP Kotlarnia S.A. KP Kuźnica ...
Timeline of railway history This page was last edited on 6 December 2023, at 06:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Railway network of Romania. Căile Ferate Române (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈkə.ile feˈrate roˈmɨne]; abbreviated as the CFR) was the state railway carrier of Romania.The company was dissolved on 1 October 1998 by splitting into several successor companies. [1]
The history of rail transport in Poland dates back to the first half of the 19th century when railways were built under Prussian, Russian, and Austrian rule. Of course, "divided Poland" in the 19th century was the territory of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth rather than today's Republic of Poland.