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ON THE ROMANIAN NG TURDA – ABRUD IN 1995

In the early 1960s, I was working in Romania for a British company, but my railway interests were somewhat inhibited by the recognition that my career prospects would not be improved if I were to be thrown out of the country for taking photographs etc. Thus it was not until the 1990s when times had changed that I had the opportunity to visit the Romanian State Railways (CFR) narrow gauge railways, or what was left of them! I wrote some notes on the CFF (Romanian Forestry Railways) lines for LI issues 96 and 97, but here I will confine myself to the CFR narrow gauge.

But back to the 1960s. My earliest CFR timetable is for 1965 and shows 6

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