The Bucharest metro Română
Platform and travertine wall with the station name at Republica

Bucharest metro station

Republica

M1Opened 28 December 1981

Photo: Babu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Where the name comes from

A factory

The Republica works, the pipe factory whose industrial area the station serves.

The Republica works was a state oil-pipe maker, Romania's largest pipe factory, part of the plants Nicolae Malaxa built in 1929–1938. It went bankrupt and its machinery was sold in 2008 and moved to India. The station serves the works' industrial zone.

Worth knowing

  • It is the terminus for most M1 trains.
  • Ceaușescu visited the Republica station site on 19 October 1977.
  • The works' machinery was sold in 2008 to an Indian company and moved to India.

On the line

Where it sits in the network

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Sources

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