# Transport: how trains share the Bucharest–Brașov corridor, hour by hour

Choose a time in the planned timetable for 1 August 2026 and see how many trains were scheduled along the Bucharest North–Brașov corridor. Then explore projects about railways, roads, bridges, ports and airports.

https://mariuscomper.uk/en/transport/

- [Why do Brăila’s streets curve toward the Danube?](https://mariuscomper.uk/cercurile-brailei/en/): A map of today’s streets, measured from a point on the quay, shows two boulevards curving around the Danube. Plans from 1830 and 1834–35 tell the city’s story; they are not overlaid on the modern map.
- [Eight electric cars over 35,594 km: every charging stop of the EUROCHARGE 2026 tour, on one road](https://mariuscomper.uk/opt-electrice-35689-km/en/): Eight electric cars, four countries, eight timed days. The data of the EUROCHARGE 2026 tour puts every stop on one road: how long it took, what it cost, how much battery was left on arrival. One car spent 3 h 15 min at stations over the tour, another 10 h 3 min.
- [Constantine the Great's bridge at Sucidava: 2,437 metres across the Danube, from AD 328](https://mariuscomper.uk/sucidava-328/en/): Choose a pace and walk its whole length — 2,437 metres, a mile and a half — on a to-scale drawing, while Trajan's bridge, drawn underneath, ends at less than half.
- [The Eiffel bridge at Ungheni, 1877: where the Chișinău train changes its wheels](https://mariuscomper.uk/pod-eiffel-ungheni/en/): The Eiffel bridge at Ungheni, 1877: where the Chișinău train changes its wheels. A bridge named after a man with no trace in its records, on the passenger railway to Chișinău.
- [Do all roads lead to Rome? The proverb, tested on 299,171 km of Roman roads](https://mariuscomper.uk/roads-to-rome/): On Itiner-e, the 2025 map of Roman roads, 57% of the length can be walked to Rome, 37% hangs on two short ferries and 5.9% is on islands. But the same 94% lead to Byzantium too: roads run both ways, and the average kilometre of road is nearer to Byzantium (2,395 km) than to Rome (2,781 km). The distances the Romans wrote on the Peutinger map are compared with the measured roads, and for any town between Scotland and the Nile the map shows its road to Rome.
- [The Strait of Malacca: a long corridor, a narrow gateway](https://mariuscomper.uk/stramtoarea-malacca/en/): The Strait of Malacca is about 800–930 km long, depending on the source, and about 2.8 km wide at its southern gateway. What its numbers measure: 94,301 transits, 23.2 million barrels a day, 29%, 48%. In Romanian, English and Chinese.
- [The Strait of Gibraltar: 14 km of water and two currents in opposite directions](https://mariuscomper.uk/stramtoarea-gibraltar/en/): At its narrowest the Strait of Gibraltar is about 14 km wide. The Atlantic flows in on top and the Mediterranean flows out underneath. With a map for measuring the width, the Pillars of Hercules, the 1713 treaty and the shipping traffic in numbers. In Romanian, English and Chinese.
- [The Bosphorus Strait, bend by bend: 31 km between two seas, 700 m at its narrowest](https://mariuscomper.uk/stramtoarea-bosfor/en/): The Bosphorus followed on the map from the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara: 31 km, 12 changes of course, 699 m at its narrowest, two currents one above the other and, in 2025, an average of 110 ship passages a day. In Romanian, English and French.
- [The Panama Canal: how the locks work and how much fresh water a ship uses](https://mariuscomper.uk/canalul-panama/en/): The Panama Canal’s locks lift ships 26 m with fresh water from Gatun Lake and no pumps. One Panamax transit: 144,000 m³ on average in fiscal year 2024. In Romanian, English and French.
- [The Corinth Canal: length, width, history and Nero’s trenches](https://mariuscomper.uk/canalul-corint/en/): The Corinth Canal is 6,343 m long and 24.6 m wide at the water. In 1881 the engineer Béla Gerster measured the trenches and shafts Nero had begun on the same line: the line of the isthmus and the cut, drawn to scale, with sources. In Romanian and English.
- [The Suez Canal on the map: length, history, blockages and traffic, kilometre by kilometre](https://mariuscomper.uk/canalul-suez/en/): The whole Suez Canal on a satellite image at true scale, from Port Said to Suez (162 km of kilometre posts, 193.3 km overall): the works of 1859, the sale of 1875, the closures of 1956 and 1967–1975, Ever Given at kilometre 151 and the halved traffic of 2024. In Romanian, English, French and Chinese.
- [Penn Station: the trains stayed, the rooms vanished](https://mariuscomper.uk/penn-station/en/): The route through Penn Station in 1910, demolition in 1963–1966 and the present station: one plan coordinate, different levels, trains still running. The rooms were demolished while the trains kept running — what did the city lose above a station that never closed?
- [Beijing's walls, along the metro route](https://mariuscomper.uk/zidurile-beijingului/en/): Beijing's Line 2 follows the former inner-city enclosure corridor, and several stations carry the old gates' names. Ride all 18 stops — 8 inner-gate names, 3 later openings, 7 without a counterpart — then compare Liang Sicheng's unbuilt wall-top park with the 1952–1970 demolitions and count what remains: 2 gate sites, 3 towers, wall fragments.
- [How a train steers without a steering wheel](https://mariuscomper.uk/trenul-fara-volan/en/): A train wheel is shaped like a cone, and the shape does the steering. Push a wheelset sideways, watch the wave about ten metres long it draws, then test the idea with two cups.
- [Bucharest noise map by address: modelled road-noise levels around every building, school and park](https://mariuscomper.uk/harta-zgomotului-bucuresti/en/): The City's official noise maps existed only as PDF images. Type a street and number to see the modelled level around the building, at night and as a 24-hour average, against the WHO limit of 45 dB. Nearly 9 in 10 homes exceed it at night.
- [First railway in Romania: 1854 or 1869? Oravița–Baziaș, Bucharest–Giurgiu and the three meanings of “first”](https://mariuscomper.uk/prima-cale-ferata-romania/en/): The press calls two different lines “the first railway in Romania”. Choose what “first” means and watch the answer change, then ride the real 1854 track, which leaves today’s Romania and comes back.
- [London's stations keep a diary: 434 Tube, DLR, Overground and Elizabeth line stations, every day since 2019](https://mariuscomper.uk/london-station-diary/): Daily tap counts at 434 London stations, January 2019 to September 2026, wound into rings: one ring per year, one slice per day. Southfields lights up for Wimbledon, Arsenal station follows the fixture list, Ladbroke Grove has no row on Carnival days, and on Christmas Day TfL counts zero Tube journeys. Pick your station and a date of your own.
- [How long do you walk to the metro](https://mariuscomper.uk/cat-mergi-pana-la-metrou/en/): Type a Bucharest street and learn how many minutes on foot you are from the nearest metro station, on the 3D map: 4,372 streets measured, 57 stations and 6 sectors — the city median is 12.4 minutes, and 40.1% of points are within 10 minutes of a station.
- [The trams of Bucharest](https://mariuscomper.uk/tramvaiele-bucurestilor/en/): Bucharest's first tram, pulled by horses, set off in December 1872 on a single line; by 1984 half of today's addresses had a tram within 350 m, closer than today.
- [The Romanian cities where trams still run](https://mariuscomper.uk/orase-cu-tramvai-romania/en/): Eleven Romanian cities still run trams. See every network on a map, which cities gave up their trams, and why some sources wrongly say 10 remain.
- [The plank roads of Bucharest](https://mariuscomper.uk/podurile-bucurestilor/en/): Which plank road took you into Bucharest? Old Bucharest's oak-beam streets on today's map, with the way from your door to the Princely Court.
- [Lift 1,200 tons so a ship can pass](https://mariuscomper.uk/tower-bridge/en/): Open the bridge on steam: hold the valve, lift two arms of over 1,200 tons so the ship can pass, then lower them — one minute from 1894, with the machine's figures behind it.
- [How much for a mile? — London hackney coaches, 1654–1832](https://mariuscomper.uk/hackney-coach/en/): Price ten fares across four dated runs — an Exchange run of 1655, a lawyer's shilling of 1662, two admeasured miles of 1715, a GPO circle of 1832 — then judge who the paper meter served, on two dated proof rails.
- [London’s lost Tube stations, and where every station name comes from](https://mariuscomper.uk/london-tube-stations/): All 272 London Underground stations and the 44 that closed or moved, on a map you can drag from 1863 to today. The ghost stations, the one between Angel and Old Street that now heats homes, and where every name comes from.
- [The metro they built without asking Moscow](https://mariuscomper.uk/metroul-din-bucuresti/en/): Rejected by Moscow in 1952, opened with 6 stations in 1979: the decision, the digging, the first train, today's network.
- [The canal dug twice](https://mariuscomper.uk/canalul-dunare-marea-neagra/en/): Once with prisoners, once with engineers — and the first dig's dead have no single number.
- [Danube Cruise Selector: Routes, Companies and Seasons on the Romanian Leg](https://mariuscomper.uk/croaziera-dunarii/en/): One Romanian Danube as the base, sold six ways by three companies (one detours to the sea): an 11-day cruise-tour, an 8-day short sailing, 12-day / 14-night full transits. Route, company and season compared, with sailing months and dated fares, so you leave with a route plus a company plus a month.
- [Decode the code on your licence](https://mariuscomper.uk/coduri-permis/en/): 78 means automatic only, 01.06 glasses or lenses, 96 a trailer to 4,250 kg. 119 codes from the official law, decoded instantly.
- [What was the Orient Express doing in Romania? 1883–2009](https://mariuscomper.uk/orient-express/en/): Giurgiu 1883, Bucharest sleepers, the 1977 farewell. Three lines to Istanbul and the Express's Romanian century.
- [How did Romania learn to fly? Vuia, Vlaicu and Coandă](https://mariuscomper.uk/trei-zburatori/en/): The Montesson hop, the Cotroceni flights and the propeller-less Salon machine. Three lives, four years – Romania on the map of flight.
- [If this bridge disappears](https://mariuscomper.uk/daca-podul-dispare/en/): Slobozia–Hârșova, two towns in south-east Romania: closing Giurgeni–Vadu Oii Bridge would add 59 minutes in the model. Close it on the map and follow the detour.
- [Can I pack this? UK airport liquid rules, airport by airport](https://mariuscomper.uk/can-i-pack-this/): Heathrow lets a 2-litre container through security. Stansted still stops an ordinary liquid over 100 ml.
- [The Oil Roads of Prahova Valley](https://mariuscomper.uk/drumurile-petrolului/en/): Nineteenth-century crude carts, the 1943 low-level air war, and historical pipeline webs cutting through family yards in Prahova Valley.
- [Ten Hours Fifty to Timișoara](https://mariuscomper.uk/noua-ore/en/): All 1,583 Romanian passenger stations coloured by how long the train takes from Bucharest, next to the 1939, 1948 and 1977 timetables and the state of the lines that explains the difference.
- [Two Railways in One Company](https://mariuscomper.uk/doua-cai-ferate/en/): Romania granted its state rail carrier a peacetime military mandate, but the firm competes commercially with RON 601M in revenue and up to RON 2B authorized equity.
- [Bucharest Filled Up First — the ceiling on Romania's license plates](https://mariuscomper.uk/placute/en/): Every county code has a fixed ceiling: 1,422,234 possible plates. Bucharest reached it in January 2010 and quietly switched to three digits. Sixteen years later, no other county has passed 30% of the same ceiling — except one, which is growing differently. Look up your county on the dashboard.
- [Unified Romanian Passenger Rail GTFS Archive](https://mariuscomper.uk/gtfs-feroviar/en/): Romania's passenger train timetable by station and route, with downloads as GTFS, SQLite and GeoJSON. Timetable valid until 12 December 2026.
- [Where the asphalt ends](https://mariuscomper.uk/unde-se-termina-asfaltul/en/): One kilometre in four of Romania's public roads never received a layer bound with bitumen or cement. What decides it is the road's rank: 0.7% on national roads, 30.2% on county and communal ones. Find your county.
- [Romania, last in EU road deaths](https://mariuscomper.uk/linia-de-sosire/en/): Romania has, again, the EU's highest road death rate. But over 25 years, no other member state has cut its rate by less. The race toward zero, year by year, 27 countries.
- [Spectacular railway tunnels and viaducts – map](https://mariuscomper.uk/tuneluri-feroviare/en/): Map of Romania's railway tunnels and viaducts: Teliu, Caracău, Oravița–Anina, the Jiu Gorge and the Ormeniș and Homorod works.
- [Transfagarasan: Is It Open? Season Dates, Transalpina Too](https://mariuscomper.uk/transfagarasan/en/): Is the Transfagarasan open now? Opening and closing dates 2015–2026, Transalpina comparison, altitude profile, fuel, the Balea cable car, and what to do when it's closed.
- [Danube Delta: ARBDD permits, Navrom Tulcea–Sulina timetables, 2026 fares](https://mariuscomper.uk/delta-dunarii/en/): The Delta access permit (5/15/30 lei), car, boat, fishing and photo permits, plus Navrom timetables from Tulcea to Sulina, Sfântu Gheorghe and Mila 23.
- [Mocanita Romania: Viseu, Sovata, Moldovita — 2026 fares and timetable](https://mariuscomper.uk/mocanita/en/): Steam compared: Viseu de Sus (136 lei, 6 h), Sovata (80 lei, 2 h), Moldovita–Argel (60 lei) and Vatra (30 lei). 2026 programs and measured drives.
- [Danube Cazane gorge: Orsova cruises, museum, 2026 fares and hours](https://mariuscomper.uk/cazane-dunarii/en/): The Danube gorge with published fares: Orsova cruises T5/T6 (80–120 lei), charter 720 lei, Iron Gates Museum (40 lei). Hours and measured drives.
- [Transalpina DN67C: south or north gate, segments, measured times, 2026 rules](https://mariuscomper.uk/transalpina/en/): How to drive Transalpina: Novaci or Sebes by base, 134.7 km / 3h39 traverse with no stops, measured segments, Ranca–Curpat 30 km/h, closed at night.
- [Via Transilvanica 2026: planner — 8 lands, gates, GPX, free guides](https://mariuscomper.uk/via-transilvanica/en/): How to plan Via Transilvanica: Maior Putna–Drobeta 1,392.8 km measured, 8 lands with dated GPX, free guides, 3 gates with measured road access.
- [Hours to Kill at Bucharest Airport? Stay or Go: OTP Transit, Entry, City](https://mariuscomper.uk/escala-bucuresti/en/): For a Bucharest airport layover, compare staying in the terminal, visiting the city or staying overnight. Check transit and entry rules, then compare measured train, bus and taxi times.
- [Trains in Romania: CFR Tickets, Six Trunk Routes, and the Truth About Delays](https://mariuscomper.uk/trenuri-cfr/en/): Learn how to buy CFR tickets and compare six routes checked on 25 September 2026. The guide covers sleeper and bicycle fares, plus the European rules for delay compensation.
- [Trajan’s Bridge at Drobeta, rebuilt in 3D (AD 103–105)](https://mariuscomper.uk/podul-lui-traian/en/): Cross the Danube on Apollodorus’s bridge, rebuilt on the valley’s real terrain with the river lowered below today’s reservoir, then watch Hadrian and the centuries take it down to the pier stumps. What is known is marked apart from what is rebuilt.
- [The bridge that taught a country engineering: Cernavodă 1895](https://mariuscomper.uk/cernavoda-1895/en/): Fetești–Cernavodă 1890–95: Saligny, 4,087.95 metres, the longest bridge complex in Europe. Caissons, Gerber consoles, the silver rivet and the 15-locomotive test.
- [The Strousberg Affair: the railway that shook Carol I, 1868–1880](https://mariuscomper.uk/afacerea-strousberg/en/): 915 km promised, 7.5% state-guaranteed, a bankruptcy and an abdication that never came. The concession map and its audit, 1868–1880.
- [Where do Romania's airports fly? Every airport's destinations, 2001–2024](https://mariuscomper.uk/panoul-de-plecari/en/): The destinations of every Romanian airport, 2001–2024, from Eurostat. Luton has been the country's top destination since 2015. Pick an airport and a year and read the departures board; every airport has its own page with all its routes.
- [A day on the rails — Romania's train graph](https://o-zi-pe-sine.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Every line is a train. A whole day becomes one image.
- [The Licence, County by County](https://permisul.mariuscomper.uk/en/): The same test, sharply different results across counties.
- [Every Pothole Has a Price](https://rugozitate-rutiera.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Road roughness turned into an annual cost for the driver.
- [How many airports does Romania have? Map of all 17 (2025)](https://mariuscomper.uk/aeroporturi-romania/en/): Romania has 17 airports in its passenger traffic statistics. See them on a map, ranked by 2025 passengers, and find the airport nearest to your town.

## Sources

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