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Glass-and-steel street entrance to Crângași station (no free platform photo at 1600px found)

Bucharest metro station

Crângași

M1Opened 22 December 1984

Photo: GillyBerlin from Berlin, Germany, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Where the name comes from

A place or district

The former village, now district, of Crângași.

The village of Crângași appears on 19th-century maps and was gradually absorbed into Bucharest between 1895 and 1943. The station stands in the district of the same name. Where the word comes from is not clear.

Worth knowing

  • It has a third track never used by passengers, built for an abandoned line III.
  • The station is finished in white Rușchița and red Moneasa marble, to designs by architect Georgeta Gabrea.
  • Passengers can change here to tram route 41.

On the line

Where it sits in the network

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Sources

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