Piła Główna railway station

Piła Główna
Location ul. Zygmunta Starego 1, Piła, 
Poland
Owned by Polskie Koleje Państwowe S.A.
Platforms 6
Construction
Structure type Yes
History
Opened 27 July 1851
Previous names Schneidemühl
Services
Preceding station   Railway lines of Poland   Following station
Piła Leszków
Piła Podlasie
Kaczory		   Line   Stara Łubianka
Stobno

Piła Główna (Polish for Piła main station) is one of the largest and most important railway junctions of Poland, located in the northwestern city of Piła. The complex is located in southern part of the centre of the city, at 1 Sigismund I the Old Street, and its construction began in 1853, when Pila belonged to the German Empire. The station was part of the newly built Prussian Eastern Railway, which had been opened in 1851, and which had reached Pila on 27 July 1851.

View of the platforms and the station

Construction of the complex was not completed until 1876, and in the subsequent years, many changes were introduced. Meanwhile, the importance of Piła as a junction grew, with construction of several other connections. In January 1871, a line to Złotów was opened, in May 1879, a line from Poznań to Szczecinek via Piła, and in November 1881, a line to Wałcz was completed. Within 30 years, Piła became a nexus of great importance, and in 1913, the station served some 575,000 people.

Currently, the station has six platforms. All the tracks are electrified, electrification work being completed in 1990. Over the tracks is a 230-metre-long road overpass, built in 1975. Near the station is a bus station of Przedsiebiorstwo Komunikacji Samochodowej. On 19 May 1988, there was a train crash involving a military transport train of the Polish Army at the station in which 10 soldiers died and 28 were injured.[1]

Lines crossing the station

Start station End station Line type
Kutno Piła Main Station Passenger/Freight
Tczew Küstrin Kietz Passenger/Freight
Poznań POD Piła Main Station Passenger/Freight
Bzowo Goraj Piła Main Station Freight
Piła Main Station Ustka Passenger/Freight
Piła Main Station Piła Północ Passenger/Freight

Connections

The station provides train service to several Polish cities, including Białogard, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gdynia, Gorzów Wielkopolski, Gliwice, Katowice, Koszalin, Kraków, Kutno, Lublin, Poznań, Opole, Przemyśl, Rzeszów, Szczecin, Toruń, Warszawa, Wrocław, also Berlin.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "An article about the crash in the portal tygodniknowy.pl". Tygodnik Nowy. 2008-08-03. Retrieved 2008-08-03.

External links

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Coordinates: 53°8′35″N 16°44′39″E / 53.14306°N 16.74417°E / 53.14306; 16.74417

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