The idea of building this line occurred during of the second World War, the Germans wanted a railroad on this route, but nothing has materialized at the time. In the mid 70s reappeared idea of building this line , in order to relieve traffic on Brasov - Sibiu Fgăras , and shorten the distance between Bucharest and Arad (over 100km ) . After studying several alternative route was up a project to build this line ( the length of 38 km), which included a large number of viaducts , 2 tunnels ( Plostina - 1910m and Gibe - 2250m ) and many soil stabilization works , the total cost exceeded £ 1 billion ( cash forecast ) . But being , Iepoca Gold " and time savings, the designers were asked to minimize the project cost , so that in addition to tunnels and several large viaducts (made according to the project , as true works of art ) , to favorite track on embankment construction , many embankments yielding to landslides ( we'll talk about a little later). in 1989 , although the work was not fully completed , the line was opened , which is presented as a great achievement of the time . landslides and thefts have led to the closure of the line in 1998, or nine years of putting them into use. Moreover , the closure was symbolic , because passenger trains have operated only in 1993 , since 1994 the train line disappearing . in the 1992-1993 timetables are 4 pairs of trains on this section : two accelerated and 2 personal . 's 2 were accelerated Acc225 ( Bucharest - Arad ) and a seasonally Acc Arad- Mangalia . between the 2 perosnale one came Bucharest. Estimated Time of section was about . 60 minutes, regardless of the type of train (ie an average of 30 km / h speed .. a bit small even for staff ) . All 4 pairs of trains were optional , if Accelerat landslides were diverted by Sibiu - Fagaras - Brasov - Bucharest, the Bucharest staff was limited to Pitesti and the other staff was canceled. Starting with the 1993-1994 line train 219 did not show up , just moving trains her work until 1998, when the department was closed , the station Vâlcele being demoted to the rank of HC ( stop passengers ) being served by the ticket seller . Moreover, set the switches to enter the line (from Vâlcele and Bujoreni Valcea ) have been removed , as well as signs for this section (it is mechanical signaling ) . Upon closing line also helped other factors outside the natural ( floods and landslides, which were still the main reason led to the closure of the line) . Given that it 's been about trains , from year to Easter ", some benevolent people believed that God took him on foot ... in towns close to the line can be seen fences and bridges made of beams and reinforced with pieces of line .