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Bucharest North railway station (Romanian: Gara București Nord; officially Bucharest North Group A; colloquially Gara de Nord) is the main railway station in Bucharest and the largest railway station in Romania. The vast majority of mainline trains to and from Bucharest originate from Gara de Nord.
The Bucharest Metro (Romanian: Metroul din București) is an underground rapid transit system that serves Bucharest, the capital of Romania.It first opened for service on 16 November 1979. [5]
Gara de Nord is the name of two separate metro stations, situated near Gara de Nord train station in Bucharest and serving lines M1 and M4. Neither of the metro stations nor the railway station are interconnected, passengers being required to use the next station ( Basarab ) to switch from M1 to M4 directly, without having to validate a ticket.
Basarab railway station Train at the station. Basarab railway station (Romanian: Gara Basarab) in Bucharest is situated near the city's main station, Gara de Nord. [1] Built in 1959 to handle a share of the main station's traffic and mainly used by short-distance commuter trains run by Căile Ferate Române, it is often considered to be an annex of Gara de Nord, to which it was linked by a ...
Bucharest has several train stations throughout and around the city, the main one being Gara de Nord where trains depart to all destinations. Other main stations include Baneasa, Obor and Basarab. Gara de Nord is a relatively modern station. It was opened in 1872 and has undergone modernization and refurbishment several times.
There are several railway stations in Bucharest: Gara de Nord (North Station, main access point), Basarab railway station, Bucharest Obor railway station, Băneasa railway station, Progresu railway station, and Titan Sud.
M2 (20.28 km (12.6 mi)) is one of the five lines of metro of the Bucharest Metro. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The M2 Line runs from Pipera to Tudor Arghezi , thus linking the north to the south of the city. The line is the busiest on the system, passing through a multitude of neighbourhoods, and also the only line to serve the centre of the city.
The station is extremely close to the Gara de Nord metro station (not only are the lights of Basarab easily visible through the tunnel at Gara de Nord 2, but both stations are built below the platforms of Gara de Nord railway station), a situation uncommon for a system characterized by large distances between stations (up to 2 km (1.2 mi)).