Regiotrans

RegioTrans is a private Romanian railway company based in Brasov, which specializes in public transport with trains.

Company History

The idea of ​​a private railway company in Romania came to today's CEO Costel Comana in the year 2002, when he decided some trains and railcars and locomotives older to buy with borrowed money. All test drives and technical settings at the stations of the area ran from without legal support.

Meanwhile, numerous railway lines to the west and the center of Romania trains the company RegioTrans be traveled. The vehicles used for this purpose are among the types SNCF X 4300, X 4500 SNCF, SNCF BB 25500 and Rame inox omnibus (RIO ). Overall RegioTrans has bought 13 locomotives of the type of BB 25500 SNCF. In 2008 RegioTrans transported 2.73 million passengers.

Rail links

RegioTrans is active among others in the following zones: Iaşi, Timişoara, Braşov, Craiova, Alba Iulia, Praid, Sighişoara, Turnu Măgurele, Costeşti, Curtea de Arges, Arad.

In addition, perverted before the parliamentary elections in Romania in 2008 on the railroad tracks Braşov - Intorsura Buzăului and Braşov - Zărneşti a special of a steam locomotive -drawn tourist carriage with the name Dracula Express.

Expansion

Since the freight in Romania will be fully privatized now, RegioTrans competed along with the other major private railway Servtrans to in 2007 still Romanian National Railway Company CRF Marfa. The purchase price was between 1.5 and 2 billion euros.