Staţia CFR Titan

Romania / Ilfov / Pantelimon / Sos. Gara Catelu
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Coordinates:   44°25'28"N   26°13'35"E

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  • Railway station "Titan Grupa Calatori" Once, in this station arrived electric locomotive.
  • It had switches, signals and mechanical barriers.
  • It was named "Catelu" railway station.
  • Statia are 11 linii (din care 4 la terminalul transcontainere). Semnalizare mecanica (cu exceptia semnalelor prevestitoare care sunt luminoase, dar nu functioneaza!).
  • Established on December 6, 1909, with the commissioning of the first 37,7km of the railway Bucharest - Oltenita, at that time only to Budesti. From 1909 until the end of 1954, functioned as Titan Station, with cancellation and moving former Titan stations and renaming her "halt Titan" (from 08.01.1954) today disappeared station located near Titan halts the current South ( basically the place where the new station was moved). Since 1997 was named Bucuresti Sud Group Travelling names keeping it today. At inception, the station had a total of three lines with a length of 400m. In 1964, with the second line refactor important to Oltenita, the station reached a total of five lines with a length of 776m, configuration preserved today. From the beginning the station was equipped with passenger and office building movement, other outbuildings. But I found the spot, something interesting enough that bode a hypothesis as interesting. Behind oldies station buildings, we see a traffic light mast planted mechanically according to all the rules of art and communications antennas used today Its pretty unusual position, if it were not particularly moved there decades ago, would indicate that behind the building there was at least one train line. Possibly, if that mast were indeed planted there for many years to have sustained a mechanical semaphore maneuver for any deviation or more are in the area. Perhaps station had a small locomotive draw for this place. But it remains at the level of hypothesis without any concrete evidence It is also interesting to note that the initial endowments station has been preserved in the right column hydraulic line one X head and somewhere in the middle station to the line 5 is still preserved today a coal powered steam locomotives. Somewhere in the last line of the station was a terminal large containers equipped with two high capacity cranes. From the "Titan" they were built between 1961-1987 a total of 13 lines connecting the main economic units in the area. But the longest of these lines was called the "Granite" by the company with the same name, 2135m in length, inaugurated in 1972. With March of 2012, with the withdrawal of the national operator CFR Passengers secondary line 801, the station began to serve more freight traffic and less on the passenger being taken over by a private company.
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