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Railway Transportation in Mureş County. Going back into history, the construction of the railway in Transylvania dates back to the year 1848, with studies regarding the route of the railway Oradea – Cluj-Napoca. Numerous debates took place later, regarding the first steps of the building of the tracks Arad – Alba Iulia – Sibiu and Oradea – Cluj-Napoca – Braşov. The Rotschild Bank financed the construction of the first Transylvanian railway, whose route opened in 1867 and in December 1868 the track Arad – Alba Iulia was already inaugurated. The British-Austrian Bank financed the Waring society, which in 1868 started the building of Oradea - Cluj railway track that was going to be inaugurated in 1870; in 1871, it reached Târgu Mureş, and in 1873 it reached Braşov. Until the ninth decade of the twentieth century, the railway network was continuously modernized, therefore the sections found on the main railways 300 and 400 are at present doubled and electrified. Others, since they do not justify their utility, were taken out of use; it is the case of the narrow gauge ones that, in our opinion can be enlivened for tourist utility. After the year 1990, the railways suffered a general process of reorganization, reflected in a massive decrease of both the volume of transported merchandise and of the number of passengers.

Keywords: railway network, connectivity, structure of the loaded/unloaded merchandise, territorial development politics, integration.