ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: The construction of the new Romanian railway line VÂLCELE – RÂMNICU VÂLCEA (Fig. 1) have been approved by the State Council order No. 544, on December 1978. Economical and strategical importance of this railway was shown especially during the first world war due to the possibility to reduce with more than 100 km the transport distance between the main harbor to the Black Sea, Constanta and capital city Bucharest with the west border of Romania, compared with the solutions offered by the existing railway network built in the 2nd half of the 19th century. As a consequence from 1920 this railway was found in all development programs of the Romanian railway network. Technical and especially cost reasons determined the delay of this project. Only after the second world war it were carried out complex geological and topographical studies which allowed the choosing of the approved alignment, with a length of 38.0 km, which was considered the optimum solution for this railway in service.
