On Wednesday, Alstom will deliver the first train of 37 RE-IR1 electric frames to Romania from a plant in Poland under a contract signed in 2022. The train will arrive at the customs office in Curtici on Saturday evening and should be in Bucharest on December 5th.

There have been many promises and delays, but Alstom’s first long-distance Coradia Stream electric train will leave its factory in Katowice, Poland, on Wednesday and cross Slovakia and Hungary as part of a freight train.

Arrival in Romania, at customs from Curtici, scheduled for the evening of December 2nd, formalities will last two days. The train will then head to Bucharest, but will also arrive at the test ring in Feurei.

The train will depart with passengers for the first time in late December or early 2024. The first route will most likely be Bucharest – Constanța, like the CFR Călători train.

The second train is due to arrive in Romania in a few months, but there are likely to be delays again.

In 2022, ARF signed a 2.42 billion lei contract with Alstom excluding VAT for 37 electric trains and related maintenance services for 15 years.

The maximum speed of electric frames is 160 km/h, they consist of six cars (two end cars with driver’s cabins and four intermediate ones) and provide 351 seats.

What the Railway Reform Authority says

The first train manufactured by Alstom to be delivered to Romania through the ARF – Railway Reform Authority, under the contract for the purchase of 37 electric frames for medium and long-distance passenger rail transport, has passed the test and final factory inspection and today, November 29, 2023 of the year, is sent to Romania / Bucharest.

The train is scheduled to arrive from Katowice (Poland) in Curtice to complete entry procedures on the evening of December 2, 2023. He will arrive in Bucharest on December 5, 2023 and begin training. supplier for official delivery to ARF.

In the first stage, after the static tests, the train will carry out a series of dynamic tests (on the Faurei Ring AFER and on the public railway network).

After the completion of all these stages and reaching the moment when the ARF can take over the control of the train, including for the safe transport of passengers, the train will be put into service by CFR Calatori, the winner of the auction for the first competitive award of public rail passenger transport. service agreement.