This is the list of trains: At 0:19 is CAF's BM3, they are running on line M2 only (in this recording, it's train bound for Berceni). At 3:59 is Astra IVA (pronounce as Four-A) (a.k.a BM1) from 1970's, 1980's and early 1990's. These are oldest trainsets and are only trainsets built here, in Romania (or, more exactly, in Arad) and are criticised for graffities and scratchities. These trainsets are running on lines M3 (sporadically) and M4 (this trainset in this recording is on the M4 line and is bound for Gara de Nord). That trainset at 4:32 is Bombardier Movia. There are two subtypes: BM2 and BM21, both of these are very simmilar each other and were produced between 2002 and 2008, and these are most common trainsets used by MetroRom (operator of Bucharest's metro system), as these are running on all lines (except M4). 7:24 "PLEASE MIND THE GAP" here!
Nice video, Tim! Bucharest Metro is awesome, same as STB. My favourite metro trains are Bombardier Movia 346. It has a beautiful design, motor sounds well, silence inside, rather than CAF trains (ugly design, loud inside, less reliable).
Hi Timosha, I want to take some images from your clips, with the metro from Bucharest, for a video material containing a study/project/fluidity solution for Bucharest. Do you give me permission to take over a few minutes of scenes from your videos?
Thank you Timothy for another very interesting video. However, why are the platforms at Piata Roman station (shown at about 2 minutes) so dangerously narrow?
The wife of our ex-dictator (Ceasescu) didn't want that station for personal reasons. The engineers built it inside the tunnel but closed those arches with light materials so it wasn't visible. After a while they convinced her that the distance between Universitate (en: University) and Piata Victoriei (en: Victory Square) is too big and this station is needed, so they just removed the light materials and unveiled those arches. The rule is that you are not allowed to cross into the space with the narrow platform if the train is not at there, but nobody checks that. Probably in the future they will install some safety panels.
Search for Bucharest metro videos showing its original car fleet. Such as the train 6 minutes in. May be the world's only metro whose launch was presided over by a president and first Lady who 10 years later were overthrown and then executed.
As a Romanian, this is what I used to get to farther places.
You forgot to film the new line 5 and newer shining stations of line 4 :)
This is a masterpeice
This is the list of trains:
At 0:19 is CAF's BM3, they are running on line M2 only (in this recording, it's train bound for Berceni).
At 3:59 is Astra IVA (pronounce as Four-A) (a.k.a BM1) from 1970's, 1980's and early 1990's. These are oldest trainsets and are only trainsets built here, in Romania (or, more exactly, in Arad) and are criticised for graffities and scratchities. These trainsets are running on lines M3 (sporadically) and M4 (this trainset in this recording is on the M4 line and is bound for Gara de Nord).
That trainset at 4:32 is Bombardier Movia. There are two subtypes: BM2 and BM21, both of these are very simmilar each other and were produced between 2002 and 2008, and these are most common trainsets used by MetroRom (operator of Bucharest's metro system), as these are running on all lines (except M4).
7:24 "PLEASE MIND THE GAP" here!
Wait a second they aren't pronounced ee-vah?
@@SteelEcky Whoops, sorry. But, for English-speakers, I simplified the pronounciation using the latin numeral equal to 4.
@@igorsiuda8108 right. So is it pronounced ee-vah or 4-ah?
@@SteelEcky Both. But I prefer more the first one, because it stands for "Întreprinderea de Vagoane Arad" (Arad Railway Coaches Company).
@@igorsiuda8108 alright thanks you scared me for a second. Romanian here BTW and I pronounced it ee-vah all my life.
Whoa! The graffiti: shades of NYC in the 1970s. 7:26 I like the "mind-the-gap" pictogram.
The first trains filmed sound almost exactly like CAF's trains built for Helsinki's metro in Finland
They are made by CAF so that should explain the similarities.
Beautiful video
Nice video, Tim! Bucharest Metro is awesome, same as STB. My favourite metro trains are Bombardier Movia 346. It has a beautiful design, motor sounds well, silence inside, rather than CAF trains (ugly design, loud inside, less reliable).
Hi Timosha,
I want to take some images from your clips, with the metro from Bucharest, for a video material containing a study/project/fluidity solution for Bucharest.
Do you give me permission to take over a few minutes of scenes from your videos?
Hey there, email timpatsuk1@gmail.com to discuss...
HAPPY THANKSGIVING FOLKS.
Will you be doing any of these videos from Iasi?
Wait, I didn't know if there was a subway in Bucharest.
Similar to the ones in Singapore (SMRT)
Great metro system. Unfortunately the graffiti artists are working..
Thanks Tim.😀💚
Thank you Timothy for another very interesting video. However, why are the platforms at Piata Roman station (shown at about 2 minutes) so dangerously narrow?
The wife of our ex-dictator (Ceasescu) didn't want that station for personal reasons. The engineers built it inside the tunnel but closed those arches with light materials so it wasn't visible. After a while they convinced her that the distance between Universitate (en: University) and Piata Victoriei (en: Victory Square) is too big and this station is needed, so they just removed the light materials and unveiled those arches. The rule is that you are not allowed to cross into the space with the narrow platform if the train is not at there, but nobody checks that. Probably in the future they will install some safety panels.
Wow thanks for such an informative reply!!!!
@@bogdaniancu3784 Thanks from me too! What an amazing but also disturbing story regarding this Piata Romana station!
I knew another story, the station it's built like that because the weak soil on top, so they couldn't make bigger space around the tunnel.
@@bogdaniancu3784 makes Elena Ceaucescu little different from particular anti rail transit NIMBYS in the US.
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Is there any map of the metro that is up to date?
Here : www.metrorex.ro/Resurse/Harta/Harta_MTX_2022.png
Search for Bucharest metro videos showing its original car fleet. Such as the train 6 minutes in.
May be the world's only metro whose launch was presided over by a president and first Lady who 10 years later were overthrown and then executed.
5:27 how did someone make a graffiti on that wall over the third rail?
Because Romania.
Don't underestimate Romanians ;)
Terrible graffiti in some trains 😔
It looks artistic
@@apluto12-z3e yes it does
especially those older ones that have WAY MORE GRAFFITI
On the new ones it looks terrible but on the old ones it looks amazing
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Graffiti makes it look ugly
On the new ones it would look terrible but on the old ones it looks good
4:12 :))
Sad... Germany is much better at trains 😔