In Viseul Bistra, right outside the station, there’s a public building with several government offices, biligual in Ukrainian and Romanian; a police station, and a popular pub, and two more restaurants just down the road. The centre is well upkept, and as over 90% of people speak Ukrainian, services are provided in both languages. There’s also a Hutsul festival every year, I think. This seems to be the website of the Hutsul culture promotion foundation: https://www.hutul-cult.ro/
The landscape is gorgeous and clearly there’s been recent money invested in the town centre and cultural events. This is honesty the EU at its best; in this case the picture is unexpectedly misleading!
Sorry, OP, but this is no train station and it never was.
The letter H. in “H. VIȘEUL BISTRA” comes from “halta”, that is a railway cabin for occasional stops of secondary trains. By no means was this a train station.
This railway cabin could also have been used as “signal box”, for railway signaling. In Romanian it’s called canton feroviar, operated by a cantonier. Since the introduction of the automatic block signaling, the old railway boxes became obsolete.
So, this is a former secondary stop cabin, not a train station.
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Looks like an Austro-Hungarian built one. We have a ton of these 🙂 is it active?
Most developed Romanian infrastructure 💪💪💪
****stolen*** train station in Romania, close to the Ukrainian border.
and it ain’t like that because of the war.
k.u.k. vibes
So, this is amusing, because the station building (clearly converted to some other use) is in sad shape but the village itself is pretty cute.
The station was built in 1913, and is a cost-saving variant of the Hungarian State Railways local line “type IV” standard building; when built to the full plan and kept up, they look like this: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1rt%C3%A9ly_meg%C3%A1ll%C3%B3hely
In Viseul Bistra, right outside the station, there’s a public building with several government offices, biligual in Ukrainian and Romanian; a police station, and a popular pub, and two more restaurants just down the road. The centre is well upkept, and as over 90% of people speak Ukrainian, services are provided in both languages. There’s also a Hutsul festival every year, I think. This seems to be the website of the Hutsul culture promotion foundation: https://www.hutul-cult.ro/
The landscape is gorgeous and clearly there’s been recent money invested in the town centre and cultural events. This is honesty the EU at its best; in this case the picture is unexpectedly misleading!
Sorry, OP, but this is no train station and it never was.
The letter H. in “H. VIȘEUL BISTRA” comes from “halta”, that is a railway cabin for occasional stops of secondary trains. By no means was this a train station.
This railway cabin could also have been used as “signal box”, for railway signaling. In Romanian it’s called canton feroviar, operated by a cantonier. Since the introduction of the automatic block signaling, the old railway boxes became obsolete.
So, this is a former secondary stop cabin, not a train station.
Sorry, but your title is misleading.