TECHNOGENIC LANDSCAPE OF NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS IN ROMANIA AND THEIR TOURISTIC VALENCES
TECHNOGENIC LANDSCAPE OF NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS IN ROMANIA AND THEIR TOURISTIC VALENCES

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays, the functional maintenance of narrow gauge railways, which still exist, with a very old infrastructure, is costly taking into consideration their low economic profitability. Competition and facilities offered by road transport, infrastructure development of forest roads which are easier to maintain, uncontrolled deforestation over the regenerative capacity of forest, economic conversion of many mining regions have also contributed to the disappearance of many forestry and mining railways. Saving the last lines that still exist in Europe, located in Romania is an obligation of mountain communities; one of the easiest ways of economic viability is the railway tourism and the arranged museums of old railway technique. In Romania, there is still in operation the only narrow gauge forest railway in Europe.

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