Sinaia train station

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The first Sinaia train station was built in 1913 by the "Demeter Cartner" Company, and it was reserved exclusively for the Royal Family and its guests, foreign leaders. On the station platform, there is a memorial plate that marks the place where Romanian Prime Minister Ion Duca was assassinated by the legionnaires (Iron Guard) in 1933.

The newer Royal Train Station is some tens of meters away from the first one, built following the plans of architect Duiliu Marcu in 1939. It is a stone building, bearing a Romanian architectural style, which, at that time, had the Royal Family coat of arms on it.

The building had a garage where the whole Royal Train entered. In front of the train station there is a big plaza suitable for welcoming foreign leaders. In the main room of the station there is a wall painting (5.50 meters x 5.50 meters) presenting a Royal boar hunt, with eight characters in full size on horseback, bearing an inscription in Latin: Basarab Voievod XIV century. The train station's purpose was retained even in Communist times. A presidential train brought President Gerald Ford and Nicolae Ceauşescu here on 6 August 1975. It is not open to the public.