A train traveling on the Pitesti-Bucuresti Nord route arrived at its destination with a delay of 310 minutes

RE train 13211, which runs on the Pitesti-Bucuresti Nord route, arrived at its destination on Friday evening, with a delay of 310 minutes, after the locomotive broke down. The representatives of CFR SA explained that the relief locomotive was waited for 191 minutes.

According to CFR SA, train RE 13211, which travels between Pitesti and Bucharest North, arrived at the North Station at 20:51, with a total delay of 310 minutes.

“We mention that the RE train 13211 was formed in the Pitesti station from the set of the RE train 13245, which left the Basarab Depot with a delay of 17 minutes, and in the station Titu announced the failure of the locomotive and stopped for another 191 minutes until a locomotive arrived help to continue the journey to Pitesti. We specify that in certain areas on the Bucharest – Pitesti section, CFR SA is carrying out QUICK WINS type repair works and renewal of the track superstructure, but as we informed the public, through press releases, the delays caused by these works do not exceed, in general, 30 – 40 minutes”, said the spokesperson of CFR SA, Oana Brânzan, according to News.ro.

She showed that the railway staff of CFR SA is constantly making efforts to reduce the minutes of delay caused by the works on the track superstructure.

“However, we cannot intervene in the event of locomotive failure. Passenger transport operators have the obligation to manage their own fleet of locomotives and wagons, and when malfunctions occur, they must intervene promptly, by directing the auxiliary locomotives, so that the respective sets are re-registered in circulation in the shortest possible time” , the quoted source added.

For its part, CFR Călători specifies, in a press release, that the passengers “did not arrive in Bucharest in 300 minutes, but in a reasonable time”.

“Regarding the information in the mass media according to which passengers traveling with RE train 13211 on the route Pitesti – Bucharest North had a delay of 300 minutes, CFR Călători makes the following clarifications: the passengers did not arrive in Bucharest in 300 minutes, but in a reasonable time. They were picked up from the Pitesti station in a short time by other trains of the company, whose destination was Bucharest North. The problems that affected passengers were caused both by a technical failure of the locomotive of train RE 13211, and by the works carried out by CFR SA to replace the railway tracks. CFR Călători apologizes to the affected passengers”, says the railway operator of public passenger transport.

Editor: Liviu Cojan

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