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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.
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.
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]
An at-grade extension toward the Bucharest South Ring Road, with a length of 1.6 km (1.0 mi) and one station, was approved in January 2020, [6] [7] and inaugurated on 15 November 2023. [8] The name of the new station is Tudor Arghezi (after the writer Tudor Arghezi). The project also includes a park and ride facility with 600 parking sports. [9]
It is divided into two major sections, the northern section and the southern section. The northern section has been widened to four lanes in 2010, [2] between the Chitila and the Voluntari junctions, [3] and a cable-stayed bridge was opened along the ring road in April 2011, in the Otopeni area, which overpasses the railway ring [4] (built by a joint-venture of the Spanish company FCC and the ...
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.
Construction was abandoned afterwards and was resumed later on in the 90's. The first section of the M4 opened on 1 March 2000 from Gara de Nord to 1 Mai. After many years of delays the next section to Parc Bazilescu was finally opened on 1 July 2011. Parc Bazilescu was not in the initial plan and was only built to open the section quicker. [2]
On March 17, 2015, the Romanian Rail Safety Authority revoked the company's Part B safety certificate and the company ceased operations on all routes until further notice. [2] Căile Ferate Române (CFR), the national rail carrier has taken over (from March 18, 2015, for the time being) some of the routes; but not all, and those that CFR had ...