The Bucharest metro RO
Platform of Timpuri Noi station

Bucharest metro station

Timpuri Noi

M1M3Opened 19 November 1979

Photo: Daniele Napolitano, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Where the name comes from

A factory

The Timpuri Noi ('New Times') engineering works nearby.

Former Metrorex director Gheorghe Udriște said stations took the name of the place where they were built; here that place was the Timpuri Noi works, as Semănătoarea was at the other end of the first section. In September 2023 the Metrorex board proposed starting the steps to rename it after the engineer Octavian Udriște, with a public consultation to follow; an online petition opposed it. In 2025 Metrorex was still using the name Timpuri Noi.

Names that never reached the platform

  • Octavian Udriște proposal · 2023-09-07

Worth knowing

  • It was the eastern terminus of the first section until the extension to Republica on 28 December 1981.
  • In 2009 Metrorex planned to rename it but dropped the idea.

On the line

M1

PantelimonRepublicaCostin GeorgianTitanNicolae GrigorescuDristorMihai BravuTimpuri NoiPiața UniriiIzvorEroilorGrozăveștiPetrache PoenaruCrângașiBasarabGara de NordPiața VictorieiȘtefan cel MareOborPiața IanculuiPiața MunciiDristorPantelimonDristor

M3

PrecizieiPăciiGorjuluiLujeruluiPolitehnicaEroilorIzvorPiața UniriiTimpuri NoiMihai BravuDristorNicolae Grigorescu1 Decembrie 1918Nicolae TecluAnghel SalignyPrecizieiAnghel Saligny

Where it sits in the network

Where it sits in the network: Timpuri NoiPantelimonRepublicaCostin GeorgianTitanNicolae GrigorescuDristorMihai BravuPiața UniriiIzvorEroilorGrozăveștiPetrache PoenaruCrângașiBasarabGara de NordPiața VictorieiȘtefan cel MareOborPiața IanculuiPiața MunciiTudor ArgheziBerceniDimitrie LeonidaApărătorii PatrieiPiața SuduluiConstantin BrâncoveanuEroii RevoluțieiTineretuluiUniversitatePiața RomanăAviatorilorAurel VlaicuPiperaPrecizieiPăciiGorjuluiLujeruluiPolitehnica1 Decembrie 1918Nicolae TecluAnghel SalignyGrivița1 MaiJiuluiParc BazilescuLaminoruluiStrăuleștiAcademia MilitarăOrizontFavoritTudor VladimirescuParc Drumul TabereiRomancierilorValea IalomițeiConstantin BrâncușiRâul Doamnei

All 57 station names, at their real coordinates. Tap any of them to go to its page.

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