Restoration

The railway runs through the Hartibaciu valley, the most deprived area of the county and one of the most deprived in Transylvania.
For the communities of the Hartibaciu valley, this railway is the only hope of social and economic development.

Along its route there are villages which are not connected to the main road and which don't have access to a bus transportation service. For those villages the railway passenger transportation service will prove to be the a great social benefit. Even for the communities which have access to the bus, the railway will provide a much cheaper way to travel, which is what the villagers of the poorest area of the Sibiu county are looking for.

Economic development can finally become a reality for the communities along the Hartibaciu river once the railway is reopened.
The cheap freight transportation offered by the railway will improve the profitability of companies located along its route, thus making the Hartibaciu valley a more desirable location for future investments.
Apart from the jobs created by these new investments, the railway itself will become a workplace for people in each community.

The social and economic development will also be greatly influenced by the tourism opportunities which the railway will offer. Everybody knows that this kind of tourism (narrow gauge railway tourism), especially in a rural area untouched by modern developments, with a great tourism potential (saxon villages with fortified churches), is a great magnet for all kinds of tourists, from children to railway enthusiasts. And the fact that steam locomotives built for this railway over a century ago still exist, and that at the Sibiu terminus of the railway lies the biggest museum of steam locomotive in Romania, makes the Sibiu-Agnita Railway one of the most desirable locations for tourists.

In time, we are planning to restore everything that this railway had, the track and trackbed, the station buildings, every rolling stock that still exists in the Sibiu narrow gauge depot, and also to find and bring back all the rolling stock that belonged to this railway.
If bringing back and restoring the steam locomotives is relatively easy, most of them being preserved in the Sibiu museum, we cannot say the same thing about the passenger carriages and freight wagons. Almost all of them were cut and sold as scrap iron in 2003, all that remained are 6 passenger carriages and 2 wood wagons.

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