The Railway and digital Corridor Curtici – Arad
– Timisoara – Caransebeș – Craiova – railway
Ring of Bucharest – Constanta Port
Ministry of Transport of Romania
6 June 2019
Slovenia
Suceava
Fascinating facts
about Romania
Oradea
- Rail2Sea corridor -
Decebal
PalaceIron
Craiova
Arad
of Sculpture
Gates Dam
Timisoara
Fortress
Parliament
Constanta
Constanta PortBucharest
Casino
Iași
Cluj Napoca
Bacău
Curtici
Arad
Timișoara
Focșani
Brașov
Caransebeș
Buzău
Ploiești
Dr. Tr. Severin
BUCHAREST
Craiova
Constanța
Constanța Port
Giurgiu
Suceava
Fascinating facts
about Romania
CurticiCurtici Orsova Bridge
multimodal
multimodal platformplatform
Oradea
Anghel Saligny (Cernavoda)
Olt bridge Bridge - Rail2Sea corridor -
Constanta Port rail infrastructure Iași
Cluj Napoca
Bacău
Curtici
Arad
Timișoara
Focșani
Brașov
Caransebeș
Buzău
Ploiești
Dr. Tr. Severin
BUCHAREST
Craiova
Constanța
Constanța Port
Giurgiu
Gdansk – Constanta Corridor
Suceava
Trans European
Transport Network
Oradea
Iași
Cluj Napoca
Bacău
HU
Curtici
TEN-T CORE
Arad
Railway
Timișoara
Focșani
Brașov
Caransebeș
Buzău
Ploiești
Total length – 832 km
Dr. Tr. Severin TEN-T CORE
BUCHAREST Railway
Craiova TEN-T CORE
Railway
Constanța
Constanța Port
Giurgiu
Suceava
Railway status
Oradea
Iași
Cluj Napoca
Bacău
HU
Curtici
Modernised
17 km Railway
Arad
Timișoara
Focșani
FS ongoing Brașov
Caransebeș
Buzău
381 km
Ploiești
FS ongoing
Total length – 832 km
Dr. Tr. Severin
Modernised
BUCHAREST Railway
Craiova Railway
in project 225 km Constanța
FS ongoing
Constanța Port
209 km
Giurgiu
Suceava
Railway type
Oradea
Iași
Cluj Napoca
Bacău
HU
Curtici
Double
17 km
Arad Railway
Single line
Timișoara Railway
Focșani
Brașov
319 km
Caransebeș
Buzău
Ploiești
Total length – 832 km
Strehaia Double
Dr. Tr. Severin
BUCHAREST Railway
Craiova Double
Railway
225 km Constanța
Constanța Port
271 km
Giurgiu
Suceava
Electrified Railway
Oradea
Iași
Cluj Napoca
Bacău
HU
Curtici
Electrified Railway
Arad
(25kv 50Hz)
Timișoara
Focșani
Brașov
Caransebeș
Buzău
Ploiești
Total length – 832 km
Dr. Tr. Severin Electrified Railway
BUCHAREST (25kv 50Hz)
Craiova Electrified Railway
(25kv 50Hz)
Constanța
Constanța Port
Giurgiu
Suceava
Railway
investments for
Oradea upgrade
Iași
Cluj Napoca
Bacău
HU
Curtici
Modernised
Railway
Arad
Arad – Caransebeș
Service contract for
Timișoara the elaboration of the
feasibility study on Focșani
Brașov
going
Caransebeș
Buzău
Caransebes – Craiova
Service contract for the Ploiești
elaboration of the Railway Ring of Bucharest
feasibility study on Elaboration of ToR for the
Constanta Port
Dr. Tr. Severin going Tender for acquisition of the
feasibility study on going
BUCHAREST elaboration of the FS on going
Craiova
Modernised Constanța
Railway
Constanța Port
Craiova – Bucharest
ToR for the feasibility Giurgiu
study elaborated
Unmodernised railway Modernised railway
(Craiova – Bucharest) (Bucharest - Constanta)
3.6 billion euro for over 1000 km of a improved railway corridor
Economical sustainable railway corridor
Increasing the Increasing Increasing the
rail speed axle load railway capacity
Now: In future: In future:
- 70 km/h for freight trains - up to 22.5 tons - more freight trains
- 100 km/h for passengers trains - more passengers trains
In future:
- 120 km/h for freight trains
- 160 km/h for passengers trains
The railway digitalization represents a new standard of efficiency
raise efficiency in daily operations & lower costs
predictive
signaling, maintenance
strengthen of
computer- for operations, train control customer
competitive-
based train rolling stock management benefits
ness
control and
infrastructure
• The Curtici railway station is a common MAV / CFR cross-border station and
modernized to European standards;
Cross- • It is a high-security area; the average time spent on border for the police
control in order to prevent illegal trafficking (immigrants) is less than 1 hour;
border • The CFR grants to the RUs the following facilities / reductions of the track
access charges for the utilization of the infrastructure on the basis of
benefits conventions signed between the CFR and the RUs:
• 33% in the case of full international trains that are transiting CFR's network;
• 33% for complete trains in intermodal traffic.
• CFR manages IT systems used at European level by RailNetEurope organization
in order to facilitate international traffic on the European railway
Digital infrastructure, such as: Pathfinder – IT system, EICIS (European Infrastructure
Charging Information System), EUROPTIRAIL – IT system, TIS (Train Information
Benefits System) - IT system
• CFR SA manages the IMComm IT application for the interactive programming
of the international trains’ traffic between CFR and MAV.
Romanian Rail2Sea Corridor - video
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