Filaret railway station

Filaret railway station
Filaret station in 1875
General information
LocationPiața Gara Filaret 1
Bucharest
Romania
Coordinates44°24′56″N 26°05′32″E / 44.41556°N 26.09222°E / 44.41556; 26.09222
LineBucharest–Giurgiu railway line
History
Opened1869
Closed1960
Location
Filaret station is located in Bucharest
Filaret station
Filaret station
Location within Bucharest
Filaret station is located in Romania
Filaret station
Filaret station
Location within Romania

Filaret railway station (Romanian: Gara Filaret) was the first railway terminal in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. Opened in 1869, it was the northern terminus of the Bucharest–Giurgiu railway line. The station was named after its location by Filaret Hill in the southern part of the city.

History

The station was opened on 31 October [O.S. 19 October] 1869 at the occasion of the inauguration of the Bucharest–Giurgiu railway line, the first railway line in the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The station was closed as a railway station in 1960 after having lost traffic to Bucharest North railway station (Romanian: Gara de Nord). In 1960, the communist government turned it into a bus station.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Gara Filaret este prima gară a Capitalei" (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  2. 1 2 "The history of Bucharest train stations". Retrieved 24 September 2026.
  3. ↑ "The railway connection of the Capital with the East and the West, in the beginning". CFR Călători. Retrieved 24 September 2026.
  4. ↑ Răduță, Cristina (8 March 2014). "Poveștile gărilor din Bucureşti. Cum a vrut Ceauşescu să demoleze Gara de Nord, ridicată din ordinul Regelui Carol I. Filaret, prima gară din București". Adevărul (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 17 June 2015. Retrieved 17 June 2015.