Warszawa Główna railway station

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Entrance on the north side, today access to the railway museum

The Warszawa Główna railway station is a former railway station in the Warsaw district of Wola at the Towarowa Street. It was Warsaw's most important passenger station after the Second World War and is located in the immediate vicinity of today's, already lowered, railway route to the city's main train station, Warszawa Centralna . The facility belongs to the Polish State Railway Company and is now home to the Warsaw Railway Museum . The future of the largely unused site is uncertain.

history

Warszawa Główna was a terminus station . Until the Second World War it served as a freight yard on the old route of the Warsaw-Vienna railway line . After 1945 and as part of the rebuilding of the heavily destroyed Warsaw, it served as a provisional passenger station ( Warszawa Główna Osobowa ) for travelers to and from Warsaw for 20 years . Trains passing through did not stop here. A simple train station building was erected between 1945 and 1946 based on a design by the architect Bollogha. Former goods handling facilities have been converted into passenger platforms. From 1954, suburban traffic was also routed past Warszawa Główna to a temporary barracks station (later Warszawa Śródmieście station ) in the city center. After the establishment of the new underground central station ( Warszawa Centralna ) in the city center, Warszawa Główna lost even more importance from 1967. From then on, only trains to and from Warka , Radom , Skarżysko-Kamienna and Kielce ( Warsaw – Kraków railway ) were handled here. In 1997 the traffic operation was completely stopped.

Todays use

The Warsaw Railway Museum has been housed here since 1972 . In 2009 the parts of the building used for the museum were renovated. The rest of the system is hardly preserved. The track apron is overgrown. The further use of the valuable site near the city center is unclear. Investors want to erect commercial and office buildings here.

Others

The area around the train station was formerly known as "Siberia", as it was from here that Polish political prisoners were sent to labor camps in Russia during the Russian Revolution of 1905 . Warszawa Główna was a frequent theme in Polish films, including a song by Wojciech Młynarski (“ Niedziela na Głównym ”).

  • Today closed eastward main entrance to the station concourse

  • Disused platforms of the station

  • Burned-out wreckage of an SD80 on a disused platform

  • Unused terminal building

Web links

Commons : Warszawa Główna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ↑ Original recordings from the train station posted on You Tube (last third of the film)
  2. ↑ FS ALn 772 from Italy , which was acquired as part of a coal barter business

Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 33 ″  N , 20 ° 59 ′ 9 ″  E