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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 ...
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]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Timeline of railway history * ... Chronology of Norwegian railway lines; Timeline of Class I railroads (1910–1929) ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Lists of events in the history of rail transport are organised into the yearly lists below. Before 1700 ... Timeline of railway ...
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.
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 ...
First railway line by country. Europe was the epicenter of rail transport and has today one of the densest networks (an average of 46 km (29 mi) for every 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi) in the EU as of 2013). [10]