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Railway timetables and transport data — CFR

Official passenger train schedule across the national railway network, stations, direct routes, transfers and travel times.

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Before you use this resource

Covers the national state operator and several licensed private carriers, but real-time delay data and last-minute cancellations may experience reporting latency. A single contractually guaranteed national GTFS feed is not yet hosted in one unified endpoint.

Published by: CFR Călători and CFR SA
Source: Public institution
Collection: Public data
Resource type: Dataset
Coverage: Romania; national railway network
Documented formats: JSON, GTFS, HTML
Licence / terms: Rights need checking
API access: Documented API
Record review date: 2026-09-07
Last resource update: 2026-09-07
Technical data audit: Not performed
Documentation: Source reviewed

Documentation

The Infofer portal and route lookup REST endpoint were reviewed directly via test query.

The cited page documents this record. Check the original source for terms and versions before reuse.

mersultrenurilor.infofer.ro ↗

Getting started

Search by station code or locality name for departures and arrivals.
Download journey tables to analyse rail connectivity in suburban areas.
Check the operating carrier of each train to ascertain terms of carriage.

Access and checks

Railway schedule lookup interface ↗ · JSON
Sample inspected on 2026-09-07

Direct API queries

curl -s 'https://mersultrenurilor.infofer.ro/' | jq .

import urllib.request
import json

url = "https://mersultrenurilor.infofer.ro/"
req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": "CunoastereDeschisa/1.7"})
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as resp:
    data = json.loads(resp.read().decode("utf-8"))
    print(json.dumps(data, indent=2)[:500])

library(jsonlite)

data <- fromJSON("https://mersultrenurilor.infofer.ro/")
str(data)

INSTALL httpfs;
LOAD httpfs;

SELECT * FROM read_json_auto('https://mersultrenurilor.infofer.ro/')
LIMIT 10;

Executable query snippets for command line, data pipelines, or DuckDB.

Data dictionary and field schema

Timetable schema — CFR passenger rail network

Field / Column	Type	Description
`train_number`	text	Train rank and service number
`operator`	text	Licensed operating railway carrier
`station_from`	text	Departure railway station name
`station_to`	text	Destination railway station name
`departure_time`	time (HH:MM)	Scheduled departure time
`arrival_time`	time (HH:MM)	Scheduled arrival time
`delay_minutes`	integer	Real-time reported delay in minutes

Sample real record (JSON)

{
  "train_number": "IR 1632",
  "operator": "CFR Călători",
  "station_from": "Brașov",
  "station_to": "București Nord",
  "departure_time": "08:15",
  "arrival_time": "10:42",
  "delay_minutes": 0
}

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