Another new train for InterRegional Călători
InterRegional Călători has received a new train. It belongs to the fleet intended for links between Bucharest, Brașov, Cluj-Napoca and Timișoara. The announcement does not say when it will start carrying passengers.
The operator’s eleventh train in the allocated fleet
The vehicle is TS24, an Alstom Coradia Stream RE-IR electric train. Its acceptance took place on 3 November 2026 at the Alstom depot within the CFR Grivița workshops, with representatives of ARF, EGIS and Alstom taking part.
ARF handed the train over to InterRegional Călători to manage. TS24 is the operator’s eleventh unit in the fleet of 13 allocated under public service contract CSP-L2 RUIC 1/2026.
The four routes planned for the fleet
Two of the announced routes start at București Nord: București Nord–Brașov–Cluj Napoca and București Nord–Brașov.
The other two are Brașov–Deda–Cluj Napoca and Cluj Napoca–Deva–Timișoara Nord. The list concerns the fleet allocated to the operator; the announcement does not assign TS24 individually to one of these routes.
The wider train purchase
TS24 is the twenty-fourth interregional electric train built and supplied by Alstom under ARF’s purchase of 37 new trains. The contract was signed with Alstom Ferroviaria S.p.A.
The purchase is part of a project with two funding stages: the first through the Large Infrastructure Operational Programme 2014–2020 and the second co-funded through the Transport Programme 2021–2027.