INTEGRATED METROPOLITAN PASS for the Bucharest – Ilfov Area

TRAIN – UNDERGROUFND – TRAM – BUS – TROLLEYBUS Starting with the 17th of February 2022, both the tourists, as well as the residents in the city of Bucharest and Ilfov county can travel with a single ticket with all the modes of transport available in the Bucharest – Ilfov area: TRAIN – UNDERGROUND – TRAM – BUS – TROLLEYBUS. The price for a metropolitan pass starts at 20 lei, for a validity of 24 hours. There are several options for an INTEGRATED METROPOLITAN PASS – valid for 24 hours, 72 hours, one month, 6 months or 12 months. These types of metropolitan passes allow for various combinations of transport modes Surface transport + underground + railway Surface transport + railway Underground + railway, regardless…

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The Royal Station of Bucharest Băneasa

Built during the same period as the Royal Station of Sinaia (1937-1938) and the underground passage from the Mioriţa Fountain, the Royal Station of Bucharest Băneasa was intended for the departures and arrivals of King Carol the Second, members of the government, the Royal Family and high dignitaries invited in the capital. The esplanade connecting the station of Băneasa to the main road allowed for troop alignment and development of processions. During the communist era, it became a presidential station, currently being used for boarding / disembarkation of passengers of some trains travelling on the 800 mainline. Since 2012, the Royal Station of Băneasa, a station with historical significance, is periodically used by the Royal Family of Romania as a departure and arrival point for…

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The TRAIN = The railway transport is cleaner

Although road transport has advanced in recent decades, it is expensive and does not provide a solution for all people. It has detrimental effects on environment and climate, but railway transport tends to solve all these problems. According to the EU Green Agreement by 2050, the aim is to switch to the use of alternative fuels for the total elimination of carbon emissions, and the railway transport can help because the railway pollutes 8 times less and emits 9 times less CO2 than the road transport, according to CER. For this reason, in Romania it is invested in electrification of the main railway lines, modernization and efficiency of electric locomotives, the purchase of trains with alternative fuels (hydrogen trains), the modernization of all coaches with…

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140 years from the first railway built entirely by Romanian engineers

The Buzău – Mărășești railway route, opened in 1881, is the first railway built by a railway unit of the Romanian state. The construction was a real success, which started the construction of railways in Romania, without foreign concessionaires. Inaugurated on October the 18th, 1881, the construction of the Buzău – Mărășești railway line – “the first rail line that directly connects Moldova with Muntenia” (The Time newspaper from 1881), meant a complete success of the Romanian railway technique. The route was well chosen, with many alignments (the longest was 18 km), required the construction of eight wooden bridges, and the costs were much lower than in any other country in Europe. The motor rolling stock came from the rolling stock of the Russian railway…

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