Bydgoszcz Główna Railway Station
| Bydgoszcz Główna | |
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 New construction of the city-side reception building in 2016
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| Location in the network | Junction station |
| Design | Island station |
| Platform tracks | 9 |
| IBNR | 5100005 |
| Price range | A. |
| opening | 1851 |
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| Architectural style | eclectic , modern |
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| City / municipality | Bydgoszcz |
| Voivodeship | Kuyavian Pomeranian |
| Country | Poland |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 8 '7 " N , 17 ° 59' 29" E |
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| List of train stations in Poland | |
Bydgoszcz Główna (before 1920 and 1939–1945 Bydgoszcz Central Station ) is the main train station of the Polish city of Bydgoszcz ( Bromberg ). It is one of the largest train stations in Poland and the largest in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship . According to the classification of the Polish State Railways , it is classified in the highest station category A.
The Bydgoszcz station was originally put into operation on July 27, 1851 with the opening of the Prussian Eastern Railway from Schneidemühl ( Piła ).
Layout of the train station
The train station is located northwest of downtown Bydgoszcz at ulica Zygmunta Augusta 7 and is approx. 2000 meters away from the market square. The tracks run through the station on the ground level from the southwest over two parallel Brda bridges coming to the northeast, where there is a fork in two lines. The station is a hybrid between a through station and a terminus station and consists of a reception building with a ticket office located southeast of the tracks and an older, elongated three-storey island station building with two projections . The station building on the city side was rebuilt by 2015, the other renovated.
In total, Bydgoszcz Central Station currently has nine tracks for passenger traffic. There is a house platform at the station building on the city side , to the northwest of which there is an island platform with two tracks. The stand-alone building of the station is enclosed by two house platforms, two butt tracks for trains arriving from the northeast and a siding between them end there. Another dead end was shut down and dismantled. Farthest to the northwest is a second island platform with two tracks. All platforms are covered and connected to each other or to the buildings by a pedestrian underpass .
To the north-west of the passenger station there is a striking disused water tower made of brick and four historic locomotive sheds . A rotunda- shaped building and a shed with a rectangular floor plan have long been shut down, but two circular sheds are still in use. In the immediate vicinity are the buildings of the vehicle construction company Pojazdy Szynowe PESA Bydgoszcz SA , formerly the ZNTK Bydgoszcz locomotive repair shop .
Railway and city transport
In the station Bydgoszcz Główna hold a plurality of commuter trains of the genera osobowy (regional) and Pospieszny (corresponding to D-train or express train, but is determined by the Nahverkehrsgesellschaft przewozy regionalne operated). There are five long-distance train stops of the type TLK - Tanie Line Kolejowe . The following railway lines run through the station:
- D18 Kutno - Piła Główna. This electrified railway line, heading towards Kutno (to the east), connects Bydgoszcz with Toruń and thus the two capitals of the voivodeship. The section between Bydgoszcz and Piła is the eastern railway line from 1851.
- D131 Chorzów Batory - Tczew . The line to Chorzów is part of the coal main line , the line to Tczew was opened on August 6, 1862 as a branch line of the Eastern Railway
- D356 Poznań Wschód - Bydgoszcz Główna
- D745 Czyżkówko - Bydgoszcz Główna
All tracks are electrified.
Every day around 27,000 passengers use the bus stops on the station forecourt. Until January 1990 these were also served by trams , but the line was shut down due to the risk of explosion in the ailing underground gas pipes that ran under the tracks. At the end of September 2010, however, the construction work began for the resumption of the tram line to the station, but with a slightly modified route. A cable bridge was built for the new section of the line. The station forecourt was redesigned and modernized. The tram will then be led to a new loop around 800 m away from the train station. The route was initially planned to open in September 2012, but finally took place in December 2012 due to a construction delay.
Web links
- Aerial photos of the train station
- Historical views of the reception building facing the city: approx. 1880 , undated and 1941
Footnotes
- ↑ The station name literally means Bromberg-Haupt (bahnhof) and, as is customary in Poland, does not include the designation "Dworzec" ( train station ). However, the lettering on the entrance building on the forecourt is "Dworzec Główny" ( Central Station )
- ↑ Bydgoskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Kolei: Węzeł Bydgoszcz ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . As of March 3, 2008.
- ↑ Bydgoskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Kolei: Lokomotywownia ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . As of March 3, 2008.
