No votes yet for anywhere in Romania...
That's before you board a local train whose broken folding doors continually slap open or shut depending on the acceleration/braking of the train.
It's windows will be seized solid in the open position, and the toilet won't have seen water in decades.
Luckily longer distance and cross-border services are in better condition.
Drifting off topic; but the above brought irresistibly to mind for me, some material by my favourite travel writer, Dervla Murphy (about whose stuff I am apt to ramble on, given the slightest opportunity)-- an Irish lady who has spent the majority of her long life travelling in, generally, less-frequented parts of the globe. Without being a railway enthusiast as such; she is an acute observer of most things -- and one picks up from her writings, that she has a considerable appreciation of trains and railways: and in her travels has made a fair amount of use of passenger trains in a wide assortment of countries.
Ms. Murphy made several visits of some months' duration, to Romania some thirty years ago, in the period immediately subsequent to the fall of Ceausescu. Her description of trains of less than crack-express magnitude in that country, closely correspond to
@LNW-GW Joint's as above (seemingly, no significant improvement over the decades !); however, she's a tough sort -- her general "drift" being that so long as one is reasonably on the ball, dangers and inconveniences as referred to, can be coped with -- and she conceived overall a considerable admiration for Romania's railways then, for doing their job of nationwide passenger-conveyance surprisingly well, in then universally more-than-a-little-shambolic conditions.
A to me delightful reference, in a way reckonably unintended by the author; concerns a local-train journey of hers from Sighet to Salva, in the far north of Romania. To quote: "The long but almost empty train was a marvel. There seemed to be no technological reason why such a specimen of nonagenarian machinery should have retained the power to move, even at ten m.p.h. At frequent intervals it paused for breath, as nonagenarians will..." Taking these words literally, conjures up something wondrous and astounding, and infinitely desirable to a certain kind of railway-lover. However: steam locomotives built circa 1900, in regular ordinary daily passenger service around the year 1990 -- just did not happen: certainly nowhere in Europe, even obscure backwoods parts of Romania. As observed -- Ms. M. is not a railway enthusiast "to trade"; one must take it that she is engaging here in a bit of playful and rather random hyperbole -- not seeking to pass on to a railfan readership, an equipment-wise sober and accurate account of this journey which she experienced. Has to be reckoned that no matter how decrepit this train; its (not plainly specified) motive power pretty well must have been at the date concerned -- from what we've been able to come to know about CFR over the decades -- not even modern steam, but diesel.