The Brăila railway station is the only
railway station in
Brăila
Brăila (, also , ) is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of Brăila County. The ''Sud-Est'' Regional Development Agency is located in Brăila.
According to the 2011 Romanian census there were 180,302 pe ...
,
Romania. The station was built in 1869 by the
Prussian company Strussberg, which did so in the model of those in Prussia. It was formally opened in September 1872 and gave Brăila more commercial and economic importance. On 6 May 1877, as the
Romanian War of Independence
The Romanian War of Independence is the name used in Romanian historiography to refer to the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), following which Romania, fighting on the Russian side, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire. On , Romania and the R ...
was taking place, four
monitors
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of the
Ottoman Empire shelled the city, including its station. It was again shelled by the
Soviet Air Forces
The Soviet Air Forces ( rus, Военно-воздушные силы, r=Voyenno-vozdushnyye sily, VVS; literally "Military Air Forces") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Soviet Air Defence Forces. The Air Forces ...
on 5 July 1941 during
World War II, a bombardment from which the station would not recover until 1970.
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Railway stations in Romania
Railway station
Railway stations opened in 1872
Railway stations in Romania opened in the 19th century
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