Sinaia train station
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Gara Sinaia
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| Căile Ferate Române | |||||||||||||||||||||
View of the station building
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| Location | Sinaia, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°21′9.594″N 25°33′10.50″E / 45.35266500°N 25.5529167°ECoordinates: 45°21′9.594″N 25°33′10.50″E / 45.35266500°N 25.5529167°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | CFR | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sinaia railway station serves the Sinaia mountain resort in Romania. The first station was built in 1913 by the Demeter Cartner Company, and it was reserved exclusively for the Royal Family and its guests at Peleş Castle, generally foreign leaders.
On the station platform, there is a memorial plate marking the spot where Prime Minister Ion G. Duca was assassinated by the Iron Guard in 1933. A second memorial plaque was erected in 1999 to mark the celebrations then held to mark 120 years of the Ploiesti to Brașov railway line.
The newer Ceremonial Railway Station is a short distance away from the first one, built following the plans of architect Duiliu Marcu in 1939. Constructed as a new royal railway station it has remained in use as a ceremonial station for state occasions and guests. It is a stone building in Neo-Romanian style, which originally displayed the Hohenzollern coat of arms. Its single platform is continuous with platform 1 of the original (and now public) railway station. The building also featured a depot housing the Royal Train.
In front of the ceremonial station there is a large plaza designed with the purpose of holding official welcome ceremonies for various foreign leaders. The main room is decorated with a wall painting (5.50 meters x 5.50 meters) depicting a boar hunt of Wallachian Prince Basarab I (eight life-size characters on horseback, alongside an inscription in Latin reading Basarab Voivode, 14th century).
The ceremonial station's purpose was retained during the communist regime. A presidential train brought American President Gerald Ford and Romanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu here on August 6, 1975. It is not open to the public.
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