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Gara București Nord
View of "The Columns", the station's second building from 1938, which features most of thetaxi ranks
General information
Location	Piața Gării de Nord,Bucharest,Romania
Coordinates	44°26′46.92″N26°4′27.15″E / 44.4463667°N 26.0742083°E /44.4463667; 26.0742083
Owned by	CFR
Lines	Bucharest–Constanța Bucharest–Craiova Bucharest–Giurgiu Bucharest–Pitești Bucharest–Ploiești Bucharest–Urziceni M1 Line (Bucharest Metro) M4 Line (Bucharest Metro)
Platforms	8
Tracks	14
Construction
Structure type	terminal station
Parking	yes
History
Opened	13 September 1872
Electrified	16 February 1969
Services
Preceding station CFR Following station Ploiești Vest towardsArad CFR Intercity 200 Terminus Ploiești Vest towardsOradea CFR Intercity 300 Ploiești Vest towardsTârgu Mureș CFR Intercity 400 Ploiești Sud towardsSuceava CFR Intercity 500 Ploiești Sud towardsUngheni CFR Intercity 600 P.O. Aeroport Henri Coandă towardsGalați CFR Intercity 700 Videle towardsTimișoara Nord CFR Intercity 900 Terminus Bosphorus Express Giurgiu towardsIstanbul Preceding station BDŽ Following station Giurgiu towardsSofia Romania Terminus Preceding station Bucharest Metro Following station Basarab towardsRepublica Line M1 transfer atGara de Nord Piata Victoriei towardsDristor 2 Basarab towardsStrăulești Line M4 transfer atGara de Nord Terminus
Location

Bucharest North railway station (Romanian:Gara București Nord; officiallyBucharest North Group A; colloquiallyGara de Nord) is the main railway station inBucharest and the largest railway station inRomania. The vast majority of mainline trains to and from Bucharest originate from Gara de Nord.

The original North railway station was built between 1868—1872. Thefoundation stone was placed on 10 September 1868 in the presence of KingCarol I of Romania. The building was designed as a U-shaped structure. The first railways betweenRoman –Galați –Bucharest –Pitești were put into service on 13 September 1872. Between 1895—1896 a new wing of the station was built, which included a "Royal Hall", in anticipation of the visit ofEmperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary.^[1] The station was initially namedGara Târgoviștei, after the road nearby,Calea Târgoviștei ("Târgoviște Road", nowCaleaGriviței), and took its current name in 1888.

Prior to the mid 1930s, the station's tracks extended beyond the present-day square into a group of carriage workshops. These workshops were demolished to make way for theMinistry of Railways building, for which construction began in 1938 and ended in 1950. In 1938, the second building (colloquially known as "the columns", in anart deco style) was completed.

The station and its surroundings were heavily bombed by theAllies in April 1944 during a campaign aimed at Axis supply lines. The station was a crucial point in the Romanian railway network, and was the main departure point for troops headed to theEastern Front (see:Bombing of Bucharest in World War II).

During theCommunist era, the station received a number of upgrades, such as partial electrification on 16 February 1969, followed by an expansion between 1978 and 1984, and then complete electrification.

In the post-communist era, the station has continued to be upgraded, having received a platform overhaul (the replacement of tiles with asphalt from 2006—2010), the removal of the "temporary" footbridge built in 1927 (replaced with theBasarab Overpass in 2009) and the replacement of the originalsplit-flap displays withLED screens (2018).

During the 2022Russian invasion of Ukraine, from 27 February 2022 onwards, the station served as a coordination point forUkrainian refugees. On the first day, almost 100Ukrainian refugees arrived on five trains owned by Romanian state operatorCFR Călători; the trains came fromIași andSuceava, in northeast Romania. Increased security, information points, and food/water pick-up points were set up in anticipation of the arrival of Ukrainian refugees. Representatives ofmunicipal government andNGOs, also contributed to the maintenance of a non-stop information and coordination point, whereUkrainian-speaking volunteers provided information. Information was also presented inEnglish through loudspeakers.^[2] At midnight on 4 March 2022, approximately 1,000 refugees arrived from Iași and were later accommodated atRomexpo.^[3]

There are currently 14 tracks and 8platforms.

As of 2009,Gara de Nord served about 200 routes, including domestic routes operated byCăile Ferate Române,Regiotrans andTransferoviar Călători, as well international trains toAustria (Vienna),Belarus (Minsk),Bulgaria (Sofia,Varna andBurgas),Hungary (Budapest),Republic of Moldova (Chișinău),Russia (Moscow andSaratov),Turkey (Istanbul), andUkraine (Kyiv,Dnipro andChernivtsi).

The station is served by several bus (105, 123, 133, 178, 182, 282), trolleybus (65, 79, 86, 62, 85, 93, 96), and tram lines (44, 45), as well as theGara de Nordmetro station. The station is additionally connected byCFR andTFC trains toHenri Coandă International Airport.

In 2019, plans were announced by theGovernment of Romania's Ministry of Transport to convert Gara de Nord from a terminus station to an underground through station, linking it withBucharest Obor railway station, and to build a partial underground link between Gara de Nord andProgresul.^[4]

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  The back facade of the station building
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  Interior of the station
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  The back facade of the station building with the entrance to theGara de Nord metro station on the right
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  AnAstra Trans Carpatic [de] train at the station

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