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This is a route-map template for Căile Ferate Române Line 900, a main line in Romania.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
All are built for 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge and run using a catenary wire at 25 kV 50 Hz AC. All trains have electric heating. All trains have electric heating. CFR owns 1,066 electric locomotives, 933 of which were built by Electroputere (Class 40, 41, 42) and 133 built by Končar (Class 43, 44, 46).
CFR main lines. The nine main lines owned by the Romanian national rail transport company Căile Ferate Române represent the most circulated lines in Romania. CFR's entire rail networks has 13,807 km (8,579 mi) and with the 6,923 km (4,302 mi) [1] of rail lines in railway stations has a total network of 20,730 km (12,880 mi).
There are five pairs of direct trains that run daily on the Bucharest North–Timișoara route; four of those trains belong to the state railway operator CFR Călători and one to the private operator Astra Trans Carpatic . The journey takes between 9 hours and 49 minutes and 10 hours and 9 minutes.
Grup Feroviar Român, or simply GFR, is the largest private railway company in Romania and one of the largest in South Eastern Europe.Founded in 2001, the company owns freight operations in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro and Mozambique, and railcar production and maintenance operations in Romania, Hungary, Serbia and Ukraine.
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 ...
It borders the Romanian railway network, with a 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in)/ 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) break-of-gauge in the west, and the Ukrainian one in the east. Calea Ferată din Moldova (literally "Railway of Moldova" in Romanian ) came into existence in 1991 as the successor to the former MŽD, a subdivision of SŽD, the ...
The English Channel is one of the world's busiest seaways carrying over 400 ships per day [20] between Europe's North Sea and Baltic Sea ports and the rest of the world. As well as its role in freight movement, sea transport is an important part of Europe's energy supply.