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{{Short description|Metro line in Bucharest, Romania}}
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| end = [[Anghel Saligny metro station|Anghel Saligny]]
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'''M3''' ({{convert|22.2|km|mi|1|abbr=on}}) is one of the five lines of the [[Bucharest Metro]]. M3 Line runs from [[Anghel Saligny metro station|Anghel Saligny]] to [[Preciziei metro station|Preciziei]]. It is the east-west line of the system.
The line shares {{convert|8.67|km|mi|abbr=on}} and 7 stations with M1.<ref name="Metrorex">{{Cite web |url=http://www.metrorex.ro/Resurse/RaportActivitate/Metrorex%20eng%202018.pdf |title=Activity Report 2018 |publisher=Metrorex S.A. |page=6 |access-date=2020-12-20}}</ref>

== History ==
The first part of the present-day M3 to be built was from [[Eroilor metro station|Eroilor]] to [[Preciziei metro station|Preciziei]] (at the time known as Industriilor) along with the line to Industriilor depot (nearby the ITB Militari depot), west of the station itself. This section was not a line on its own, but rather a branch of the M1, and it opened on 19 August 1983. During the communist period the 'M3' was the [[Gara de Nord metro station|Gara de Nord]] - [[Dristor metro station|Dristor 2]] section of what is today the [[Bucharest Metro Line M1|M1]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ovenden |first1=Mark |year=2007 |title=Transit Maps of the World |edition=2nd |publisher=Penguin Books |page=83 |isbn=978-0-14-311265-5}}</ref> Construction work on another branch, from [[Nicolae Grigorescu metro station|Nicolae Grigorescu]] to [[Anghel Saligny metro station|Anghel Saligny]] (at time named Leontin Sălăjan and Linia de Centură), began in 1988, but the work was halted in 1996 and the tunnels were flooded.<ref name="NAT2002">{{cite conference |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RXEOWLikFhwC&pg=PA57 |title=Monitoring measures for underground rehabilitation of Line 4 Bucharest, Romania |first1=V. |last1=Ciugudean |first2=I. |last2=Stefanescu |first3=O. |last3=Arghiroiu |date=May 2002 |conference=North American Tunneling Conference |editor-last=Ozdemir |editor-first=Levent |publisher=CRC Press |location=Seattle |pages=57–67 |isbn=9-05-809376-X |access-date=2020-12-23}}</ref>

Due to the very large gap between [[Păcii metro station|Pacii]] and [[Lujerului metro station|Lujerului]] (then known as Armata Poporului) construction of [[Gorjului metro station|Gorjului]] started. It was opened in two stages: the westbound platform in 1994 and the eastbound platform in 1998.

In the mid 2000s the route of the M3 was shortened from [[Pantelimon metro station|Pantelimon]] - Industriilor to Eroilor - Industriilor and the M3 became a shuttle service, similar to the [[Bucharest Metro Line M4|M4]].

In 2008, the long-overdue section from Nicolae Grigorescu to Linia de Centură, for which construction works resumed in 2004, was finally opened, also as a shuttle, as an extension of the M4.<ref name="NAT2002" /> Because a line composed of two unconnected shuttles was very impractical, on 4 July 2009 the two branches from Preciziei and Anghel Saligny were linked sharing tracks with the M1 between Eroilor and Nicolae Grigorescu and thus forming the M3 as it is operated today.

== Rolling stock ==
[[File:Arm pop.jpg|thumb|An old IVA train at Lujerului.]]
The M3 uses [[Astra IVA]] and [[Bombardier Movia]] trains. The IVA trains were used exclusively until 2009, when the first Movia trains were introduced on the M3, and services from [[Preciziei metro station|Preciziei]] to [[Anghel Saligny metro station|Anghel Saligny]] commenced. In 2014, after the arrival of new [[Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles|CAF]] trains and the migration of Movia trains from the [[Bucharest Metro Line M2|M2]] to the M3 was complete, the old trains were no longer needed. IVA trains were reintroduced in 2020, when 8 Movia train sets were transferred to the new [[Bucharest Metro Line M5|Line 5]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://mobilitate.eu/trenurile-bombardier-probele-m5/ |title=Trenurile Bombardier încep probele pe M5 Drumul Taberei – Eroilor iar trenurile IVA au revenit pe M3 |date=23 May 2020 |website=mobilitate.eu |language=ro |trans-title=Bombardier trains start tests on M5 Drumul Taberei - Eroilor and IVA trains have returned on M3 |access-date=2020-09-21}}</ref>

==Name changes==
{| class="wikitable" style="border-collapse: collapse; text-align: left;"
|-
!Station!!Previous name(s)!!Years
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Preciziei metro station|Preciziei]]
|Industriilor
|1983–2009
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Lujerului metro station|Lujerului]]
|Armata Poporului
|1983–2009
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Nicolae Teclu metro station|Nicolae Teclu]]
|Policolor
|2008–2009
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Anghel Saligny metro station|Anghel Saligny]]
|Linia de Centură
|2008–2009
|}

==Extensions==
An extension from [[Păcii metro station|Păcii]] towards the [[A1 motorway (Romania)|A1 Motorway]] and the Western Industrial Park is planned for 2030.<ref>{{cite news |author= Vlad Ignat |url=http://adevarul.ro/news/bucuresti/paianjenul-metrorex-schimba-harta-capitalei-bucurestenii-muta-subteran-2030-1_50bdec7b7c42d5a663d01c96/index.html |title=Păianjenul Metrorex schimbă harta Capitalei. Bucureştenii se mută în subteran, din 2030 |newspaper=Adevărul |language=ro |trans-title=Metrorex's Web Project changes the map of Bucharest. Bucharest moves underground by 2030 |access-date=2014-05-07}}</ref>

==Map==
{{Rapid transit OSM map
| system_qid = Q2735258
| stations = yes
| frame-width = 750
| frame-height = 470
| length = yes
| single_line=y
| text=Bucharest M3
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Bucharest Metro Line M3 - Revision history

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