{"id":176155,"date":"2018-12-16T09:35:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T07:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/the-sounds-of-a-railway-station-176155.html"},"modified":"2018-12-16T09:35:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T07:35:53","slug":"the-sounds-of-a-railway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/close-up\/the-sounds-of-romania\/the-sounds-of-a-railway-station-id176155.html","title":{"rendered":"The sounds of a railway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n


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The North Station in Bucharest<\/h2>\n


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The North Station in Bucharest is the biggest railway station in Romania. Approximately 300 trains are arriving in and departing from this station every day. The station was built between 1868 and 1872, the building being included on the list of historical monuments in Bucharest. Even if it was not designed to be the main station in Bucharest, it has become the main railway node of the Capital City and of Romania, but it was already too small to accommodate the growing flow of traffic as early as 1880. The communist period saw a spectacular growth in railway transport, but the number of passengers has plummeted all across Romania since 1990. Among other issues, the precarious state of the station also led to the reduction of rail traffic. As early as 1906, when the famous Orient Express train was inaugurated, the North Station in Bucharest was included as a stop on this route. At present, the Orient Express is running twice a year.<\/p>\n


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