Update: Romania’s main railway operator CFR cancels roughly 70 routes nationwide due to debt
Update: CFR Infrastructure and CFR Călători have announced that train traffic is resumed as per the usual schedule after they agreed to a joint commitment to settle outstanding debts and offset mutual claims, most importantly regarding the tariff for the use of the railway infrastructure.
Previously, CFR Călători, the section of the railway operator that handles passengers, noted in a press release the “acute underfunding of the system” and the fact that the money for the travel facilities granted by the Romanian state is delayed.
“CFR Călători is taking all necessary steps so that, within the limits of legal provisions, it pays CFR SA the amounts owed as a result of using the public railway infrastructure,” CFR Călători said. The company also showed that at present, it has outstanding debts ranging from 30 to 180 days to various suppliers of infrastructure, electricity, diesel fuel, repairs, and cleaning of rolling stock, and so on.
Initial story: Romanian state-owned railway operator CFR announced on Tuesday, October 21, the cancellation of around 70 train routes across the country due to debts of RON 100 million (EUR 20 million). The company failed to pay railway usage fees.
Initially, CFR SA announced that 37 trains would be temporarily suspended, only to later increase the figure.
The company stated that, along with the debt issue, additional delays and regulations are affecting operations, including “rest periods for train staff, breaks between successive shifts, maximum allowed service, as well as the inability to ensure the provision of rolling stock at various railway locations and technical inspections.”
However, CFR emphasized that the interruptions are temporary and will only last until the passenger train operator is able to pay its debts in full.
The following train routes are impacted:
From October 20, 2025
- Train R 2447: Târgu Mureș – Teiuș
From October 21, 2025
- Train R 5031: Bucharest North – Ploiești Sud
- Train R 8002: Fetești – Bucharest Obor
- Train R 8006: Constanța – Bucharest Obor
- Train R 2571: Sibiu – Mediaș
- Train R 2566: Mediaș – Sibiu
- Train R 2565: Sibiu – Copșa Mică
- Train R 3530: Sighișoara – Beia
- Train R 3542: Sighișoara – Odorhei
- Train R 13544: Sighișoara – Odorhei
- Train R 3541: Odorhei – Cristur
- Train R 3544: Cristur – Odorhei
- Train R 3543: Odorhei – Sighișoara
- Train R 3546: Sighișoara – Odorhei
- Train R 3545: Odorhei – Cristur
- Train R 3548: Cristur – Odorhei
- Train R 3547: Odorhei – Sighișoara
- Train R 2567: Sibiu – Sighișoara
- Train R 4334: Halmeu – Satu Mare
- Train R 4337: Satu Mare – Halmeu
- Train R 4341: Oradea – Valea lui Mihai
- Train R 3123: Arad – Brad
- Train R 3125: Arad – Gurahonț
From October 22, 2025
- Train R 4340: Valea lui Mihai – Oradea
- Train R 3122: Gurahonț – Arad
- Train R 3124: Brad – Arad
From October 25, 2025
- Train R 2572: Sighișoara – Sibiu
- Train R 2569: Sibiu – Mediaș (only on Saturdays)
- Train R 5433: Bacău – Suceava Nord (canceled on the Pașcani – Suceava Nord section)
Regio trains suspended from October 21, 2025, 00:01
- R 5431, R 5432: Bacău – Suceava Nord and return
- R 5539, R 5540: Pașcani – Suceava Nord and return
- R 5568, R 5570: Botoșani – Suceava Nord and return
- R 7035, R 7038 (from October 25, 2025): Bucharest North – Urziceni and return
- R 8003: Bucharest Obor – Fetești
- R 8005: Bucharest Obor – Constanța
- R 5106, R 5107: Mărășești – Buzău and return
- R 5071, R 5072: Brazi – Buzău and return
- R 3030: Brașov – Bucharest North
- R 3029: Bucharest North Gr. B – Brașov
- R 3115, R 3116, R 3117, R 3118: Timișoara Nord – Oradea and return
- R 3126, R 3129: Gurahonț – Arad and return
- R 3127, R 3128: Arad – Brad and return
- R 4105, R 4106: Bistrița Nord – Cluj Napoca and return
- R 5002, R 5003, R 5016, R 5017: Buzău – Bucharest North and return
- R 4331, R 4338: Oradea – Halmeu and return
- R 4332: Satu Mare – Oradea
- R 4401, R 4402, R 4405, R 4406: Satu Mare – Halmeu and return
- R 4502: Siculeni – Brașov
- R 4533, R 4536: Târgu Mureș – Războieni and return
- R 2441, R 2443: Târgu Mureș – Sibiu and return
- R 2445, R 2447: Teiuș – Târgu Mureș and return
- R 2560, R 2561: Mediaș – Sibiu and return
- R 2563: Sibiu – Sighișoara
- R 2564: Beia Hm – Sibiu
- R 2567, R 2568: Sibiu – Sighișoara and return
InterRegio trains suspended from November 7, 2025
- IR 1634, IR 1633: Brașov – Bucharest North and return
- IR 1661, IR 1662: Bucharest North – Iași and return
- IR 1571, IR 1574: Bucharest North – Galați and return
- IR 1599, IR 1590: Bucharest North – Drobeta Turnu Severin and return
- IR 1531: Timișoara Nord – Baia Mare
- IR 1530: Baia Mare – Timișoara Nord (canceled from November 8, 2025)
- IR 1532: Satu Mare – Timișoara Nord
- IR 1533: Timișoara Nord – Satu Mare (canceled from November 10, 2025)
- IR 1537, IR 1539: Timișoara Nord – Oradea and return
- IR 1743, IR 1744: Arad – Oradea and return
- IR 1745, IR 1746: Târgu Mureș – Cluj Napoca and return
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