Dimitrie Leonida metro station

Dimitrie Leonida
I.M.G.B. station in the 1980s
General information
LocationFormer IMGB factory / South end of Berceni Neighborhood
Sector 4, Bucharest
Romania
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
History
Opened24 January 1986
Services
Preceding station Bucharest Metro Following station
Berceni Line M2 Aparatorii Patriei
towards Pipera

Dimitrie Leonida, formerly known as IMGB is a metro station in southern Bucharest, Romania, on Line 2. The station was originally built in order to transport workers to the Kvaerner IMGB (literally: Heavy Machinery Factory, Bucharest) steelworks. Even though this purpose is still served today to an extent, the area around the steelworks has developed residentially, and therefore is used by commuters who work in the city centre of Bucharest. The station was opened on 24 January 1986 as part of the inaugural section of the line, from Piața Unirii to Depoul IMGB.[1]

The station received its current name in 2009, after the engineer Dimitrie Leonida.[2]

  1. ^ Schwandl, Robert. "București". urbanrail.
  2. ^ "De unde provin noile nume a 8 staţii de metrou". Adevărul. 8 July 2009.