After 16 years when the line was not in use, the first Kampulung to Tisza-Syget Marmacia train, consisting of a locomotive and a wagon of Ukrainian Railways – Ukraliznytsia, left on Wednesday, but the first test train encountered some “obstacles” on the way, writes ClubFeroviar.ro

“At the crossing with the railway, the locomotive turned out to be too high, and the railway worker raised the electric and communication wires higher with the help of a pole. Only after this skillful and “modern” “railroad maneuver” was the column able to continue its journey,” the publication notes.

However, ClubFeroviar.ro notes that this was a test train. “We hope that before the official resumption of traffic, the problem with the cables at the crossing will be resolved,” the publication writes.

The last train from Câmpulung to Tisza-Sziget Marmatia ran in 2007 / The border crossing was modernized 7 years ago

ClubFeroviar writes that on November 15, 2022, the Regional Office of the National Railway Company Cluj CFR SA reopened the Kampulung-la-Tisa border railway station for the resumption of rail traffic on the border with Ukraine on the Teresva (UZ) – Kampulung-la-Tisa section. (CFR) reference .

The last passenger train between Ukraine and Romania passed through the two border points – Teresva (UZ) and Câmpulung la Tisa (CFR) – on October 17, 2007. Then, during customs control, several smuggled cartridges for cigarettes were discovered. seat in the train. Romanian customs officials from Kampulung-Tisa initially wanted to confiscate the train, which was heading from Ukraine, but after a five-hour investigation, they let it back across the border. It was the only passenger train arriving at this station.

In 2015, the Kimpulung train station on the Tisza was modernized after an investment of 2.2 million lei, money from the state budget.

The station building was repaired, fences were redone, and 32 surveillance cameras were installed 2.5 kilometers to the border with Ukraine. Although no trains had passed through the station for nearly a decade, the station had four security guards.

Ex-state secretary: “It is unacceptable for an EU member state to fail in such a situation with every interconnect project”

Horaciu Kosma, the former State Secretary for Transport under the mandate of Minister Katalin Drula, reminds that this is not the first failure of railway communication with Ukraine.

“Last year, our neighbors rebuilt a 20-kilometer railway line in just 2 months at the height of the war, but they waited another 4 months after Romania cleared the dirt from our side so they could open it,” Cosma writes.

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The scene in which an employee lifts the cables with a stick so that the train can pass is described by the former Secretary of State of the USSR as “a scene worthy of Caragiale”.

“It is unacceptable that an EU member state in a favorable economic and strategic context stumbles in such a situation on every connection project with a state that has suffered from war and a major economic crisis, but instead flawlessly manages these projects. “, – says Cosma.