Podul Carol I cu Statuile Dorobanţii

The railway route from Bucharest to Fetești, with a length of 147 km, was built in 1887; often, the villages are located at considerable distances from the stations, and this line has the role of a direct connection between the country's capital and the Danube, especially for export traffic to Constanța. On a large part of the itinerary through the Bărăganului Plain, the Bucharest-Fetești line runs parallel to the Ialomița and Danube rivers, being located about halfway between these two watercourses.

The railway segment from Fetești to Cernavodă Pod, with a length of 20 km, was built in 1895; crossing the two arms of the river (Borcea and Dunărea Veche) and the low region (Balta Ialomiței), surrounded by these arms, the total width of the water in this area is 15 km. The main bridge over the Old Danube is 1662 m long, and the secondary one over Borcea is 920 m long; between these two bridges there is a viaduct with a length of 1455 m, built over Balta Iezerul.

It totals 4037 m of bridge and viaduct. In the meadow, a 20 m high embankment was built, similar to a dike. The height of the main bridge reaches almost 100 m, having 35 m from the foundation of the piles in the ground to the floor, 33 m above the waters from the floor to the beams on which the railway line is laid, and 33 m for the deck. The depth of water at Cernavodă, next to the bridge, varies between 7 m during low periods and 14 m during high periods.

Anghel Saligny (1854-1925), Romanian engineer and scientist, the builder of the bridge, was born in the village of Liești, Galați county. He was a university professor in Bucharest and an academician. He introduced reinforced concrete in the construction of silos for the first time in the world (1886). He led the development works of the Constanța port.

The railway from Cernavodă Oraș to Constanța, with a length of 58 km, was built in 1860: starting from Cernavodă, the line follows the Carasu valley, and near Constanţa it crosses the balance of waters between the river and the sea, reaching the shore of Constanța. In Dobrogea, the railway line along the Carasu valley is the shortest distance between the Danube and the Black Sea.

Source: The Romanian Black Sea Coast (Ministry of Tourism, 1976)