How Many Steam Locomotives Can I Find In Timișoara?

hello thank you for joining me today I'm in tasara the fifth largest city in Romania what we're going to do in today's video we're going to go and look for a few steam Locos which are dotted around the city now in Central and Eastern Europe it is quite common to find one or two plimp steam Locos perhaps one at the railway station you might get the old one in a park but here in tasara there's a few more than just a couple and there dotted around so what I thought we'll do we'll it merits making a video cuz normally I just take a picture of them and they might end up in another video but I thought we'll just go for a little tour around the city and we'll go and find them that by the way that is the main Orthodox Cathedral in the city and then if I turn the camera around we are right in the city center you've got this rather nice Gardens down here and then you've got buildings on each side some have been renovated there's some really quite attractive building so it's a really very pleasant City I'm going to head on that way past the Cathedral over the other side River and let's go and find our first steam locomotive I've walked a short distance from the city center come across the river to give you a reference point for where I was you can just see the Tower of the cathedral in the distance over there and I'm bringing you to this building here this is I understand to be the poly Technic University check this is a cycle way this screen pass the Cy coming so the reason I'm bringing you here here as you probably gather it's because there is a steam loo into I don't even have to look hard for it there it is on the other side of the fence I expect it be all right we'll just wander and have a look as a propeller as well um I suppose you know what you'd maybe expect to study at Pol Technic universities sometimes when you just you find out there's a plimp loco in the University you know it couldn't be they're quite vast site so it can take a while to look for them but this is a bit too easy almost you also get it with Parks as well sometimes you find out there's a steam Loco in the park and you can spend you know an hour or so looking if it's a vast Park so I've now just wandered into the poly Technic University I don't think they really mind me just coming in here um so here let's going to have a look at this our first steam Rec so Narrow Gauge loo 760 mm gauge built by rajit ritaa is a city or town which I intend to visit on this visit because it's just reopened its traway and and uh there's quite a few more of them there because that's where they were built her Works number is 1409 built in 1953 you can just see up there there's a work space we'll have a look at that now these Locos I'm not sure exactly how many they built they built a lot of them and you can find them now Beyond Romania in fact we even had one in Britain at one point at the Welsh porn landfair Railway if you go to most Narrow Gauge Railways in Romania and Hungary chances are you'll see one of these not all of them but most of them and like I say they have appeared at various other Narrow Gauge Railways around Europe so I think they're great little Locos chunky two um oh no sorry Z 080 so they have eight driving Wheels uh let's have a closer look so yeah when you go to Romania you quite often will find this can't actually see a number on our works plate but it does say 1955 she was built um the CFR that that's the I think that's the main um Romanian Railways not so sure what that means so I just have a walk around her and then we're going to go and look for some more steam Locos so yeah I think it's nice you see don't often get this um I'm not saying they don't exist in Britain P Locos most of ours tend to be in museums or running but it does make visits to these Eastern European countries interesting and yeah just something to do to go and look for these poop Locos I would rather see it running but if it was a choice between seeing her running or seeing her scrapped I'd rather see her pimped here so that's our first Loco let's go and find another steam loo as I walk between locations we're just walking through we've got these two parks each side of the river over there is the cathedral near where we started so regarding City's transport there's trams and trolley buses I'm doing all the tram lines and there will be videos on them where I just filmed the route and put captions in but it is such a pleasant City and they also do a water US service but I don't think it probably runs in the winter this is February at the time of filming this video so I don't think I'll be able to do that on this visit but I may well come back in the summer because I haven't quite done all tra Network actually cuz there was one section that was closed for track Rel so that will be done and there are some of the routs I wanted to do before they relay and potentially while I've still got the older transs just saw trolley bus G over the bridge and uh there's a tram in the distance this video isn't really much video about trams but there's one of the modern Turkish trams but there's these Charming over 60y old trams from Munich secondhand they're really good fun to ride so it's a great City if you like Urban transport but I really would like to come back in the summer and have a a ride on a boat or on their water ble look and uh again slight tangent from the video I've just spotted this little Japanese garden so I'm just have a quick look in here let's just have a quick look then we're going to promise we'll go and find some more steam Locos look at this this is I really like it's only a small garden but I just like this little places like this I'm going to follow along the river over there let's go and find our next steam Loco [Music] [Music] [Music] there one the C's trolley buses I've just been walking through those parks there so I'm on the other side of the river now and what we're going to do we're going to have a look here is our next them going come on behind it and we'll walk around it along there is the main railway from well eventually goes to Bucharest One Way bu the other this one's not in quite such a good condition as our last one so also built in 1953 I believe her works numbers 1410 one of them's 141 0 one of them's 1409 so they are literally and there's some work going on on the railways up over there so they are like you know they've been built off the off the production line after each other this one's not fed quite so well seems been painting a roll of all liver got a bit of graffiti on it which is a shame um I suppose the other one being in the University it's probably locked up at night so generally is looked after but you know it's better than it being scrapped even if it is in it's rather odd liery so this is our second steam Loco like I say it it's nice to see them um I like I just it' be nice in a better delvery but I suppose it was just going to get attacked again um you know at least it's there what you can't really damage them casually so much they're big strong machines so I'm going to continue on I'm going to follow the railway line down that way past the railway station and that's where our next steam Locos should be found so that's the main railway station gar de Nord over there which is having some refurbishment work done it's a typical you know communist era station building prior to that there was actually a forence path who he designed the railway station um in various places around the austr Hungarian Empire so there's a lot of his work in Romania such as at Clos apaka you can still see one of his buildings and at paage in Hungary and copper in Hungary Zab Zagreb what is now Croatia have all got buildings by forence path anyway the uh the tram line terminates here that is a tram one of the Turkish trams on the loop so this is where routs eight and N terminate yesterday I did manage to ride the loop I found are ring in the B well I think he wants to go out there's a lot sorry literally revering across the track so I don't know if he'll be able to so far but one of the drivers have allowed me to ride the loop I don't think you're supposed to be able to ride the loops but it seems they do generally turn a blind eye which is good if you're a track prasher but I don't think this Loop will it might stay but the plan is to extend the tram line along in the direction we're going and join up with the newly reopened Route 5 which I did the other day so all the tram lines it all be on separate videos like I say you''ll be able to see where they go now the L's moved the Turkish tram can move I'm going to continue on beside the railway lines and uh that's where we're going to find a couple more steam locomotives here I am just past the railway station and here's our next steam locomotive now this one's a bit of a mystery to me it looks very much like a CS lock the German war locomotive which they built all over um they they ended up all over Europe should I say now this one a number 150 1091 her tender carries a different number so I'm a bit unsure and I can't actually find any information as to what her true identity is so that's a bit of a mystery so if anyone watching knows anymore then um you know please do comment and tell me but I've had done a bit of research I can't find anything on her and I noticed also one of her connection rods appears to have come down so um doesn't like she'll be going anywhere but she's looks looks really nice really looks apart what I'll do I'm going to go up onto this bridge um after the video video but I'm going to insert it now there there a couple of pictures just from the other end um I wanted to do this in one go but I wanted to also let you see the front of it this bridge is pretty cool cuz look he goes up over over here that takes you over the road so it's a handy Crossing but not only is it good for seeing the steam Locos which we're looking for it's also very good for looking at Railways and the trains which we'll see in a moment so as we get up here you also got trolley bus lines some of them there's a circle up there haven't been up there but they terminate up there and then there's a non-revenue earning route going down there when I was filming security car just pulled up and I thought they were going to say something but they they were quite happy for me to be standing here you know they really don't mind which is just it's what I really like about Eastern Europe no one really bothers you you want make videos like this in the UK long as you get people asking they'll interrupt you midt and ask you what you're doing here you know you can just get on with things so there we are there's that steam The Creeks lock and they're everywhere I even remember them in Frontline service in Bosnia uh 10 years ago I went to Bosnia I think there's still some going now but not in not quite as it was I'm really glad I went there so I am genuinely one of the youngest people that can remember steam but moving moving on to diesels and electrics there quite a interesting lineup of diesel Locos there there a lud Miller you know Soviet here of diesel and then you got some other diesels here we'll have a look as we go over but as we walk along here it really looks the part that steam locco so that's the railway station down there so you got these terminal platforms I just walked along off the end of the platform and round uh it seems to be a sort of logical route there's a more modern dmu just coming in and now you do find those Theo diesel units around all of Europe really from sort of Germany across to Romania Bulgaria and Beyond so they're quite interesting to see but I'm far more interested we are going to find some more steam Locos I promise you in this lineup we got down here look what brilliant lineup especially that green one it really looks like just come out the works so yeah that's quite quite fantastic there goes that that unit one thing with those units um which I've discovered from Hungary talking to people who use them a lot in Hungary on some lines theyve replace locco trains and what often happens with those once the toilet tank is full then the toilet locks out of use and they do some quite long distance Journeys but with a locol train it's just go straight out onto the track some hungarians have told me that it's the worst thing when they get their track it's a 4-Hour Journey it's one of them cuz they know there's a possibility that they might not be able to use the toilet and one of them told me that they had the guard had actually sort of noted quite a few people needed to use it so they stopped they did an extended stop at a station to let passengers use the station toilets I that would happen here anyway we've got some great sound of diesel Locos I might be wrong but I think some of these might have STS of Locos in which are familiar to British Railway Enthusiast look at this they going to go all of those all Locos on one train I'm sure a boat just getting out the cab of one of them it's fascinating place if you like Railways and then over there what we got two round houses there's a little diesel J down there fantastic got this bridge you know right across the station throw and across the yard and it's not for Inus yes it's a just a genuine public right away but it's probably well used by the F just some old burnt out carriages over there I think um on this side the work we can see that's for further up where they're extending the tram route which I said about connect up Route 5 they're going to borrow under the railway so that's probably worth for that but there goes that little clo 95 00001 per number is so yeah this is like just not seen in Britain um that's why I often visit these countries there's a water tower there I'm going to be going to ritaa uh to see some more steam Locos which will be another video and I'll be catching the train from here tomorrow I'm hoping it'll be a local Hall train my plan is to try and go one way come back another so I might not come back on a local Hall train but I'm hoping to get a local Hall train to Caren sebes and then get a train from there to rajit and then eventually I'll get a train from ritaa back to here and um as we in here where I could there was a flight from Luton to Tara it was about an hour till there was a bus so I had to get a taxi which cost in our money about 10 there goes up Lo but um there's no sensible time flight back to Lon or there is it's not sensible time there's a flight it's about 4 in the morning so I've that's why I've opted to get the train to Budapest and fly back from there and generally it's just more fun to go by train I probably will do this again I'll probably fly toara maybe when the tram extensions are complete could do them then I'll get a train to Arad which is not too far from here but another Romanian city um which looks to have a very interesting tram Network you may have noticed in the background there's a steam Loco again well this one's standard gauge I believe it's another ritaa Loco I think built in 1941 and I'm fairly sure from my research her Works number is 596 so she seems to be down the store desert also quite an interesting old crane over there so stored in the depot there various other rail cars I just like how they've got these two round houses like this I mean they exist do they exist in Britain um I can think of some but not in everyday use for you know CU we just don't have this number of Locos in Britain anymore so there's a steam Loco over there and then on this side got various electric Locos I expect actually that little shunter job is to shunt the electric Locos in and out the sheds cuz they can't get out themselves I'd love to go in and see what else is in there I mean it' be fantastic to have a look around um so some of these places if you ask nicely they'll let you in but um I'm certainly not going to do that on camera but it's it's not as hard as it looks it's even like old steam AG water cranes down there uh so it's just yeah fantastic to see all this infrastructure still in place right we have got one more steam locco to find and this one is even more of a mystery than some of the others we've seen there another rail car I don't know if that is a rail car and passenger service so it's some sort of inspection thing perhaps if you're watching and you know then tell me so we're literally now between the two roundhouses turntable there turntable there that little chunk smoking away been followed by another the zero unit I wish we had a footpath like this yeah is L is right over the depot that's what I think so funny it's just right over the main you know the best point of the Depo they could possibly find they put a footpath through because there's a large residential area down there I don't actually find T to be a typical Romanian City it's um it's just a little bit different but in a good way anyway we're going to finish with one more steam loc I'm possibly the most surprising and I really don't know anything about it see down there it's like it's like a miniature logo appears it should have a tender but doesn't now I want to know is it was it one steamable or is it one that they've just sort of somebody's made it looks looks the part I don't know what gauge as well do you know the gauge if you know the gauge please comment tell me it looks the part but did it ever steam or is it purely um a static exhibit I would be very interested to know if you do know please do comment and tell me and if you know anything about the ceks lock um which one is I've looked for all the Romanian reg to Cs loock and I can't find one that appears to match her identity so there we are there the five steam Locos oh and um one other thing um what I'm going to do last night I went to the Brewery to have dinner and um in the brewery there was a plint electric Loco because there were electric hold Freights on the timara tram system so I'm just going to set a picture that now I understand there's three of them and the others are possibly around possibly going to be restored so we may one day be able to see them or if you know they're on display anywhere in the city or anything else that you think I you know I'll be interested in like plimp steam Locos around the city or some of the other nearby cities uh do let me know I'd love to go and see them but in this there's not many cities I don't think where you can find five different Locos all in all places that are just ped it just makes just quite an interesting morning that shant's going on to the turntable I think this is where I'm going to leave the video I hope you've enjoyed it thank you very much for watching what a mesque for watching that's thank you in Romanian and um please do feel free to like share comment and subscribe goodbye