Classic route
InterRegio 1831
Timișoara → Iași · Romania
- Distance
- 806 km
- Fastest time
- 16 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 50 km/h
- Operator
- CFR Călători ↗
- Train
- CFR Călători coaches
- Countries
- Romania
- In service since
- 1938
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Romania corner to corner in sixteen hours without going near Bucharest, from the Banat over the Eastern Carpathians at Vatra Dornei on a crossing finished in 1938, and down through Bukovina to Moldavia.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.7% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 16 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: CFR Călători — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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