Heritage route
Mocănița Sovata
Sovata → Câmpu Cetății · Romania
- Distance
- 14 km
- Fastest time
- ~1 h
- Average speed
- 14 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- CFI (Calea Ferată Îngustă)
- Train
- Chrzanów Las steam (1949) · open cars
- Countries
- Romania
- In service since
- 1915
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
From the spa resort of Sovata a 1949 Chrzanów steam engine hauls open cars to Câmpu Cetății — a rescued shard of the 82 km Târgu Mureș–Praid line of 1915.
How this line was checked
- The 13 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 12458162 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 77.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 6 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in RO) ↗
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