The Regional Passenger Agency Timisoara operates within the National Company of Passenger Railway Transport, disposing of 3,968 employees, specialized in the following branches: commerce, traction and wagons.
The representative units of the RPA Timisoara are: the North Station Timisoara, the Travel Agency Timisoara, the Wagon Revision Timisoara and the Locomotives Depot Timisoara.
The access in the North Station Timisoara is performed through an underground passage, which has a direct connection to the urban transport means, ensuring a maximum flux of passengers.
Within the Agency there are four counters for international traffic, six for local traffic, one counter for licenses, as well as an information office where one can inquire about the travel facilities for domestic and international traffic. In the corridor of the Agency are posted display boards with the schedule of the trains, as well as the practiced tariffs.
The Wagon Revision Timisoara is the largest maintenance and repair unit of passenger wagons within RPA Timisoara. The activity is performed within a perimeter which includes: the North Station Timisoara, two technical preparation groups, the line for the radical technical and sanitary preparation, respectively the repair lines with detachment, together with the workshops related to the performed activities.
The unit
ensures daily the circulation of 218 passenger wagons through the own park, as follows:
These passenger wagons compose in total 30 trains which link
Timisoara to other important towns of the country, such as: Bucharest, Iasi, Botosani,
Cluj, Sighetul Marmatiei, Baia Mare, Craiova, Arad, etc. and in summer Mangalia and Eforie
Sud.
The main scope of the revisions is to finalize the extending and modernization works of
the control and pre-heating station for trains, the outfit of the technical groups with
modern sanitation means and last, but not least, the setting into operation of certain
high capacity machines for the maintenance of the equipment in the inventory of the wagons
curtains, covers, carpets, etc.
This has
imposed the endowment of the depot to keep updated with the evolution of modern technology
for the exploitation of rolling material on the railways. Thus, within the Depot Timisoara
there are 15 electric locomotives which run at an increased speed (Speed max =
160 km/h), one electronic scale for the control and balancing of the load on the axis of
the locomotives, three revision channels equipped with installations for the lifting of
the locomotives from the bogies, a rolling bridge and 2 rotating platforms for the
introduction and taking out of the locomotives from the revision. Also within the depot
are carried out activities of maintenance and repair of a locomotive park which comprises
16 LDE (electric Diesel locomotives ), 11 WITs (wagons for the heating of the train), 39
LDHs (hydraulic Diesel locomotives), 19 ATMs (auto-engines), ensuring at the same time the
trailing of the passenger trains on the following sections:
We must specify that in the present a new program, in the ORACLE
language is experimented for the monitoring of the route charts.
The personnel of RPA Timisoara is permanently concerned with the increase of the comfort
degree in the passenger trains and with the ensuring of travelling conditions at the level
of the European requirements.
Pages drawn up by
Valentin Carstea