The station building is just what a former gold mining town deserves, shining in its old glory after its recently completed exterior renovation. Brad now is just terminus of a long branch line but it could have been a busy junction, too. The later built Mintia–Brad railway line connected the city with the main line 200 Brasov–Arad–Curtici. The construction was started in 1939, but the entire railway line was put into operation only in 1988. It could have been a part of a direct railway link between Craiova and Oradea, serving the numerous mining and industrial facilities along the line. However, the new railway section was closed after a landslide in 1997, and the missing section to Oradea between Halmagiu and Vascau was never built. So the station of Brad remained a sleepy terminus with two trains a day, the intermodal wagons are not carrying anything, they might have been brought here only for being scrapped. (Brad, 23 April 2023, 14:25 EET)