On the night from Friday to Saturday, railway traffic was affected by the storm. Several trains are delayed for 300-450 minutes. Regional staff from Timisoara and Craiova worked through the night to repair all disruptions caused by the bad weather at around 20 railway crossings, where dozens of trees, as well as concrete poles supporting the contact line, were broken and fell onto the railway line, and the contact wire that provides power to the locomotives was severed for tens of kilometres, the CFR said.

Several trains were stationed at stations overnight to allow access for pantograph cranes to fix rail issues, the CFR said.

The rail lines blocked by severe storms last night are as follows:

• Radna – Varadia
• Slatina – Timișoara
• Karansebesh – Jena
• Resitsa – Resitsa north
• Petrosany – Lizeni
• Petroshany – Lainichi
• Gate – Vârciorova
• Kalan – Kalan Bai
• Chicken – Baru Mare
• Buziaș is a big bag
• Lainiki – Livezheni
• Strekhaya – Filasi
• Gate – Vârciorova
• Parangu – Lunka Budieni
• Bibeshti – Muscleshti
• Kotofen – Isalnitsa
• Golenti – Mocetsei (where the roof of the house was dropped directly onto the railway track).

Dozens of emergency crews worked through the night to remove trees from the tracks, replace damaged catenary power system components and clear pantographs on locomotives so that traffic could be safely resumed.

Trains of two categories – IR 1922 and IRN 79 – transiting through the regions of Timisoara and Craiova and having Bucharest Nord as a transit or terminus station, will arrive in the capital with delays of 300 to 450 minutes.

Trains were temporarily halted overnight at various stations to allow pantograph cars to access and railway staff to intervene, both to remove trees and to restore contact wire.

The CFR clarifies that temporary stations at the stations are unavoidable, as it was necessary to intervene with pantograph dredges both to cut and remove fallen trees and to replace contact wire and damaged components or to clear vegetation from pantographs.

At this time, two passenger trains are running – IR 1922 and 79, no other disruptions affecting the smoothness of traffic have been recorded.

In addition, the private train 11504 running on the Arad – Bucharest Nord – Littoral route will arrive in Bucharest Nord more than 300 minutes late, because in the future between Velișoara – Carancebeş – Slatina Timiş the trains will run double, in both directions, with a diesel locomotive, the failures caused by the electrical system components will be completely eliminated. in the hourly interval during which we have no registered trains in circulation, CFR also clarified.

National rail company CFR SA apologized to travelers and assured them that all interventions carried out during the night were necessary to continue the journey in safe conditions.