Dărmănești – Vicșani – border railway electrification
Electrification of the single-track line from Dărmănești to Vicșani, towards the Ukrainian border crossing at Vicșani – Vadul Siret, on the TEN-T Central route. It is stage 1 of the CFR rehabilitation of the Dărmănești – Vicșani – border line and is co-financed under the Connecting Europe Facility as part of the EU–Ukraine Solidarity Lanes.
- Total length
- 30 km
- Open today
- 0 km
- Sections
- 1
- Cost on record
- €23.209M
- 1 of 1 sections carry a comparable figure
Restated into EUR at 2025 prices.
Sections
| Sections | Status | Length | Timeline | Cost | Funding | Contractors | Contract terms |
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| Stage 1, lot 1: Dărmănești – Vicșani electrification Electrification of the existing 30.31 km single-track line between Dărmănești and Vicșani, plus related track works. The 26-month contract period is 8 months of design and 18 months of works. CFR's August 2026 status report lists the contract with a start date of 15 September 2025, 0.00% physical progress and completion estimated for November 2027, and the report covers works and design phase together. No works start date is published, so the lot stays tendered. Lot 2, the rehabilitation of the rail bridge at km 0+522 (RON 41.999 million excluding VAT, signed 14 July 2026 with a EUROPAN PROD – CONFER GROUP – PRO AMI'S CONSULTING association), is not recorded as a separate lot because no length is published for it. | Tendered | 30 km |
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| 26 mo execution · Contract value lei 117.03M |
Contractor roles are as recorded in the award. Only builders count toward the delivery rankings.
Funding
- European Union30 km1 section
- Connecting Europe Facility 2021–2027, grant agreement 101122871 of 2 May 2023 (EU–Ukraine Solidarity Lanes, Vicșani – Vadul Siret rail border crossing)
- National budget30 km1 section
A section that lists two sources counts its full length under each: the data records which sources paid, not what share each one carried.
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Sources
- CFR SA: S-a semnat contractul de Reabilitare a liniei de cale ferată Dărmănești – Vicșani – Frontieră, Etapa 1, Electrificare, Lot 1 (2025-08-26)read Oct 5, 2026
- CFR SA: Stadiul proiectelor de reabilitare/modernizare infrastructură feroviară, August 2026 (2026-09)read Oct 5, 2026
- CFR SA: CFR S.A. a semnat contractul pentru reabilitarea podului feroviar de la km 0+522, pe linia Dărmănești – Vicșani – Frontieră (2026-07-14)read Oct 5, 2026
- OpenStreetMap contributors (geometry of CFR line 500, ODbL)read Oct 5, 2026