Romania - Lines with Obscure or Sparse passenger services

Introduction

This list is based on the timetable dated from 14 December 2014 to 12 December 2015, unless otherwise stated. Standard abbreviations are explained in General Information.

Obscure services

Arad avoiding line: Glogovăţ – Aradu Nou

[200,310] (48B2, not shown; ERA1 107C2) RO15/1

A south to east curve connecting the Timişoara Nord to Arad and Arad to Simeria lines.

		IR1622	Timişoara Nord - 08:56 Arad Nou - Bucureşti Nord
		IR1766	Timişoara Nord - 14:30 Arad Nou - Iaşi
		IR1843	Timişoara Nord - 22:17 Arad Nou - Beclean pe Someş
		IR1765	Iaşi - 06:38 Radna - Timişoara Nord
		IR1621	Bucureşti Nord - 21:18 Radna - Timişoara Nord

Teiuş avoiding line: Mihalţ – Coşlariu

[200A,300] (49B2; ERA1 108A2/B2) RO15/2

An east to west curve avoiding Teiuş, used by through trains shown on Table 200A with no timing at Teiuş.

Târguşor Bihor – Cadia (via Săcueni Bihor halt)

[402,413] (48B3; ERA1 117C4) RO15/3

A south facing connection off the Sărmăşag line avoiding Săcueni Bihor station.

The route is no longer operated by CFR and all trains now call at Săcueni Bihor, so this curve no longer has a passenger service.

Mărăşeşti avoiding line: Putna Seacă (Mărăşeşti Ram. Putna) – Gral. Eremia Grigorescu (Mărăşeşti Ram. Gral. Eremia Grigorescu)

[500,704] (50A1, not shown; ERA1 109A2) RO15/4

A south to east curve for through trains between Bucureşti and the Tecuci line, shown on table 500 with destination Iaşi but no time at Mărăşeşti and on table 704 with destination Bucureşti but no time at Mărăşeşti.

		R1667	Bucureşti Nord - 02:07 Focşani - Iaşi
		R1661	Bucureşti Nord - 08:54 Focşani - Iaşi
		R1663	Bucureşti Nord - 15:09 Focşani - Iaşi
		R1665	Bucureşti Nord - 19:10 Focşani - Iaşi
		R1668	Iaşi – 02:19 Tecuci - Bucureşti Nord
		R1662	Iaşi – 09:06 Tecuci - Bucureşti Nord
		R1666	Iaşi – 19:43 Tecuci - Bucureşti Nord

Paşcani avoiding line: Paşcani triaj – Ruginoasa

[500,606] (50A2, not shown; ERA1 109A4) RO15/5

A south to east curve linking with the Iaşi line. Through trains shown on Table 606 with no timings at Paşcani use this curve.

		IR401	Chişinău – 22:38 Iaşi - Bucureşti Nord
		IR402	Bucureşti Nord - 01:42 Pascani Triaj H. - Chişinău

[Suceava] - Cacica – Gura Humorului

[502, 513] (50A2 not correctly shown; ERA1 108C4) RO15/6

Table 513 Suceava - Dărmăneşti - Cacica - Paltinoasa -[Gura Humorului] forms an alternative route between Suceava and Gura Humorului.

There are no trains in the 2014-2015 timetable period

Tecuci avoiding line: Cosmeşti – Tecuci Nord

[600,704] (50B1, not shown; ERA1 A2/B2) RO15/7

A west to north curve avoiding Tecuci station for trains between Mărăşeşti and Bârlad with no times at Tecuci.

		R1664	Iaşi - 16:18 Bârlad – Bucureşti Nord
		R1862	Iaşi - 00:15 Bârlad - Constanta
		R1861	Constanta - 04:10 Mărăşeşti - Iaşi

Bucureşti Nord or Bucureşti Triaj – Pantelimon

[800] (53A3. ERA1 111A5) RO14/8

Express services on the Constanţa line run to/from Bucureşti Nord whereas local services run to/from Bucureşti Obor, which lies at the end of a branch running SW from a triangular junction at Pantelimon. A few local trains run between Bucureşti Nord and Bucureşti Obor but they reverse at Pantelimon station (which lies at the east end of the triangle) and hence do not traverse the W <=> S curve.

A few seasonal services to/from the Black Sea coast use the E <=> W curve at the west end of the line to Bucureşti Triaj, thus avoiding Bucureşti Nord.

	E	IR10192	Timișoara Nord – 01:44 Craiova - Mangalia
	E	IR10191	Mangalia - 00:17 Bucuresti Baneasa - Timișoara Nord

Bucureşti northern freight ring: Mogoşoaia – Pasărea

[800,900] (53A3; ERA1 111A5, not shown correctly) RO14/09

There are no trains over this line in the current timetable.

Palas – Constanţa via goods line

[800] (53B3, not shown; ERA1 111C5, not shown fully) RO15/10

This line diverges at Palas and allows access to either the southern end of Constanţa station or directly onto the Mangalia line, the latter curve not being used by any passenger trains. Although there would appear to be no reason why any train should not use this route, in practice only some summer only through trains between Bucuresţi (or beyond) and Mangalia (and vice versa) have been observed to take it. R942, the summer only Satu Mare - Mangalia train, took this route in 2009 and IR1862, the 22:05 (Sun) Iași - Mangalia in July 2013. Further reports would be welcomed by the compilers.

Railway Map of Constanţa area:

Constanţa

Făurei avoiding line: Gâiseanca Hc – Cireşu Hm

[700,702] (50A/B1, not shown; ERA1 109A1/B1) RO15/11

This southeast to northeast curve connects the Făurei to Galati and Făurei to Feteşti lines.

E	FSSuMO	R1871	Constanta - 17:37 Tandarei - Galați
E	FSSuMO	R1870	Galați - 08:36 Ianca - Constanta

Lunca Budieni to Copăcioasa "double track" section

[202] (49B1; ERA1 108A1 not shown on either) RO15/12

Although shown on CFR schematics as double track, the section between Lunca Budieni to Copăcioasa is actually two single lines each over 5km long and up to 1200 metres apart with Budieni halt on the southernmost line. All passenger trains nominally take the southern route, but fast services from Târgu Jiu to Filiaşi with no requirement to stop at Budieni have been known to take the northern route.

Budieni

Other sparse services

The following lines have few trains (relative to service levels generally in this country) - fewer than three trains each way on at least three days a week - or do not run each weekday.

A3	Salonta - Kotegyan (Hungary)
B	Vicşani - Vadu Siret (Ukraine)
D	Giurgiu Nord – Ruse (Bulgaria)
-	Calafat - Vidin (Bulgaria
E	Stamora Moraviţa - Vršac (Serbia)
G	Carei – Mateszalka (Hungary)
215	Arad - Arad Vest ( Only two through services from Arad to Nădlac each way. All other trains to Nădlac start/finish at Arad Vest).
216	Sânnicolau Mare - Vălcani
313	Nadab - Padureni Arad - (Grăniceri )		334	Oradea - Cheresig ( Weekend service only)
512	Dorohoi - Leorda
914	Strehaia - Motru Est
916a	Buziaș - Gătaia
919	Jimbolia - Kikinda (Serbia)
920	Jebel – Liebling hcv
925	Oravița - Anina

Deletions since last edition

RO14/6	Suceava avoiding line: Suceava Nord – Suceava Vest. No service for several years
RO14/13	Simeria avoiding line: Simeria Triaj - Simeria Veche h. No service for several years
RO14/14	Buzău avoiding line: Boboc Hm – Buzău Sud Hm. No service for several years