Regiotrans

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Regiotrans
legal form Private company
founding 2004
Seat Brașov , RomaniaRomaniaRomania 
management Costel Comana
sales 1.7 million euros (2007)
Branch Transport / logistics
Website www.regiocalatori.ro

Regiotrans is a private Romanian railway company based in Brașov that specializes in public transport by train.

Company history

The idea of ​​a private railway company in Romania came to the current head of the company, Costel Comana, in 2002, when he decided to buy some trains, railcars and older locomotives with borrowed money. All test drives and technical settings at the train stations in the vicinity took place without legal support.

In the meantime, trains from the Regiotrans company operate on numerous railway lines in the west and the center of Romania. The vehicles used for this belong to the SNCF series X 4300 , X 4500 , BB 25500 and Rame inox omnibus (RIO). Regiotrans has bought a total of 13 BB 25500 locomotives from the SNCF. In 2008 Regiotrans carried 2.73 million passengers.

Rail connections

Regiotrans is active in the following zones, among others: Iași , Timișoara , Brașov , Craiova , Alba Iulia , Praid , Sighișoara , Turnu Măgurele , Costești , Curtea de Argeș , Arad .

In addition, before the parliamentary elections in Romania in 2008, a special tourist car called Dracula Express, pulled by a steam locomotive, ran on the railways Brașov – Întorsura Buzăului and Braşov – Zărneşti .

expansion

Since freight traffic in Romania is now to be completely privatized, Regiotrans competed with the other large private railway, Servtrans, for the Romanian railway company CRF Marfa, which was still state-owned in 2007 . The purchase price was between 1.5 and 2 billion euros.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.businessmagazin.ro/analize/transporturi/regiotrans-cauta-loc-pe-sina-cfr-2697035
  2. ↑ Adevărul of June 16, 2009 , accessed on May 12, 2013 (Romanian)
  3. ↑ The Railfaneurope.net Picture Gallery
  4. ^ Rail: Romania wants to privatize its freight traffic. In: DiePresse.com. December 18, 2007, accessed February 4, 2018 .

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