The Bucharest metro Română
Platform with a train waiting at Pipera

Bucharest metro station

Pipera

M2Opened 24 October 1987

Photo: Andrei Stroe, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons

Where the name comes from

A place or district

Pipera, a former village north of Bucharest.

In the late 19th century Pipera (also called Tătărani) was a village of 122 people; it is now a district of Voluntari. The station was built for the Pipera industrial estate; after 1990 the area became an office and residential district.

Worth knowing

  • It was originally built to serve the Pipera industrial estate.
  • The station has two side platforms; trains reverse in sidings to the east.
  • Up to 4 trains are stabled at Pipera overnight.

On the line

Where it sits in the network

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Sources

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