Beograd Centar train station
| Beograd Centar Prokop |
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 Map of the station
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 12, including 2 underground |
| Price range | 1 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Mihail Maletin |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Belgrade |
| district | Okrug Belgrade |
| Country | Serbia |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 47 '37 " N , 20 ° 27' 14" E |
| List of train stations in Serbia | |
The Beograd Centar station (kyrill. Београд Центар , German Belgrade center ), often just called Prokop , is a station that has been under construction since 1977 as part of the fundamental redesign of the Belgrade railway junction , which will become Belgrade's historic central station on July 1, 2018. Beograd Glavna , replaced. The as the new main railway station Belgrade thought through station was the mid-1990s for the establishment of high-speed rail links within the Pan-European Transport Corridor X rescheduled. At the same time, the Beovoz S-Bahn, which opened in 1992, was taken into account.
After several attempts to complete the station and the associated reconstruction of the railway infrastructure in the Belgrade railway junction, most recently failed due to the global economic crisis , the urban renewal project “Belgrade Waterfront” , which has been carried out since 2014 by a major investor from the United Arab Emirates on an area of 180 ha of the old rail terminal is being built, and the dismantling of the rail infrastructure on the site of the old Belgrade Central Station has also begun. With the contracts awarded to Energoprojekt on August 1, 2014 for the further construction of the Belgrade Centar station, the long-term standstill at the construction site was ended with a loan of 26 million euros. The first construction phase of the new station was opened to traffic on January 26, 2016.
After eight tracks have been handed over to rail traffic in this first construction phase, in addition to the five completed platforms in the subsequent construction phases, another as well as a station hall and shopping center with the associated transport connections for local public transport will be built. Complete completion was announced by the Serbian premier for 2018. To date, 145 million euros have been spent on the station.
The train station is located near the river on the right bank of the Sava on the traffic axis of motorway corridor X and is framed on the south side by the upscale residential areas of Dedinje and on the north side by the university clinics. It also offers a direct connection to the Belgrade trade fair on the banks of the Sava and the sports facilities of the two football clubs Partizan and Red Star . When it is completed, it will develop the trend towards a new city center in the south of Belgrade as a new transport hub in Belgrade. In the revitalization of Serbia's rail infrastructure, a throughput of 35 international trains, 18 long-distance trains and 37 regional trains at the Belgrade railway junction is expected in 2020. In the Belgrade Center train station, the convenient location at trade fairs, sports facilities, clinics and residential areas means that 40,000 people and 250 pairs of trains are expected to travel daily.
After the station was inaugurated, two inter-regional connections to Novi Sad have been operating since January 26, 2016, in addition to the 105 pairs of trains that were already in operation before in the S-Bahn traffic of Bg: voz .
location
Due to its location in a cut, Prokop station has a natural leveling of 30 m, which enables two-sided traffic access. This is where the great urban planning potential lies, which enables access via the Dedinjski bulevar via the higher level and the connection to the Belgrade-Zagreb motorway via the lower level. This location specification makes the train station a central traffic point that can be reached from different directions in the city. The extensive site requirements also allow large forecourts on both sides of the station, which lead to the central station building on all sides, the platforms and tracks of which are below the level of the reception building and thus do not impair local public transport. In the project, the station building is intended as a connecting element between different modes of transport.
Due to the morphology of the terrain, the train station will also form a central vantage point in relation to the city panorama of Belgrade. Since the first concepts for the project, the accompanying urbanistic designs for the area were intended as a vertical and a landmark in the city skyline. Overall urban planning for the station complex was presented by Milutin Maletin (1975), among others. With its location on the edge of the slope towards the narrower city center and residential areas in the rear, it was planned as the new center of a city quarter that, in addition to transport functions, is to receive numerous economic and commercial facilities.
Function of the Belgrade Center train station
The facilities of the Belgrade Center railway station represent the center of the concept of rail-bound transport in Belgrade, the so-called Belgrade railway junction , whereby the station forms the connection point for the converging lines of various modes of transport.
From a structural point of view, the station complex represents a riding station with the reception building above the tracks, and operationally a separation station designed as a through station , which consists of two independent operating points:
| Name of the operating location | Tracks | comment |
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| Belgrade center train station | 3, 4 and 7 to 10 | Belgrade center long-distance train station |
| Belgrade Center Railway Station (BG: Voz) | 5 to 6 | BG: VOZ |
| Belgrade center Beovoz train station | 1 and 2 | Train |
Long-distance and regional rail lines
Even if the takeover of long-distance traffic was planned for 2011, long-distance and regional trains mostly still ran via the old main station before July 1, 2018.
Regional traffic and S-Bahn
Four Beovoz lines currently stop at the station. The station is currently not used for regional traffic.
Structure, architecture and connection
Prokop train station is located in a river valley. This means that the railway tracks pass under the city of Belgrade via tunnels. The railway station's tracks are not visible as a structure in the cityscape, only the reception hall planned above a concrete slab measuring 400 × 100 meters (40,000 square meters) will appear. The appearance of this lobby has not yet been finally determined. A combined operational and commercial use of the reception hall is planned. A large part of the property measuring 120,000 square meters is intended for commercial use.
Connection of the station to the transport infrastructure
The station is located directly on the traffic corridor X and the E10 motorway. It is an integral part of the railway corridor X and is to be connected to the public road infrastructure and the public transport system in Belgrade via three levels.
A connection to line 2 of a planned Belgrade metro is planned below the station . At track level, the station can be served via feeder from the E 10 (Bulevar Franše d 'Eperea). The upper level of the railway hall and the shopping arcades will be on the west side from Ulica Kneza Miloša and Ulica Vojvoda Putnika , on the east side via new road connections to Deligradska ulica and Bulevar oslobođenja . The connection to the Bulevar Kneza Aleksandra Karađorđevića is also planned on the south side of the upper level .
In particular, the connections to the west side of the station, which do not yet exist, and the complex topographical situation between Vračar and Dedinje hills require high investments for the connection to the station. For example, a viaduct over the E 10 and a new road within the Serbian Clinical Center south-west of Bulevar oslobođenja have to be built to extend Deligradska to Bulevar Kneza Aleksandra Karađorđevića .
The costs for the city to connect the train station by road are estimated at 25 million euros for 2009.
realization
planning phase
Due to the small terminal station, which is a hindrance to the expansion of high-speed and high-speed lines, the difficult topographical situation of Belgrade with two major rivers and a hilly urban area and the limited possibility of integrating the station complex on the banks of the Sava into modern public transport concepts (tunneling under the planned metro, more necessary for high-speed connections Since the end of the 1960s, a better location has been sought for the future through station, which is primarily intended to be via an underground feeder, to free the city center from rail lines.
The new Belgrade main train station, Beograd Centar , was decided by the city administration on March 11, 1971 , as an integral part of the major Belgrade railway junction project - after an extremely heated debate, in the criticism of the feasibility of networking the future underground and suburban railway Rail network and long-distance rail transport, which in retrospect turned out to be correct.
First, an anonymous competition was advertised for the project, to which architects were allowed to submit a draft for the station and rail infrastructure without any further specifications. From the contributions received, six works were finally approved, which were adapted in a second selection round to a committee's suggestions for improvement. From this selection round two works could qualify for the final round. After a year and a half of further elaboration on the projects, the proposal of the architectural team Živorad Lisičić, Srboljub Rogan, Zoran Žunković and Mihajl Živadinović, in which the traffic planner Mihailo Maletin also participated , finally won in 1976 . While the original drawings and models envisaged the station in the shape of the wings of a bird, this idea was dropped in further revisions for commercial use of the floors above the tracks.
Setup phase
start of building
The realization was initiated by the then mayor Branko Pešić in March 1974 with the start of construction of the new Belgrade railway bridge over the Sava. On October 8, 1977, with the groundbreaking ceremony, the construction of the new Belgrade main train station Prokop as a through station , which should allow fast passage of trains to and from Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece via three tunnels , began. According to the plans at the time, the station should have been opened to the public on May 1, 1979. Due to the high costs of the technically demanding project connected with the networking of railways, light rail and underground in two central transfer stations and the complete conversion of the entire rail traffic in Belgrade, completion has been delayed until today. After an investment of 980 million euros until 2007, it is still the most expensive project in Belgrade's urban infrastructure and is now several decades behind completion.
Work on the major construction site of the station was carried out in stages between 1977 and 1980, between 1984 and 1989 and between 1996 and 1999. During these construction phases, however, all tunnels, bridges and the platforms of the Prokop station as well as the underground station Vukov spomenik were completed.
Construction freeze
After a short construction freeze came in 1980 for the first time, in 1984 the establishment of 8 railway tracks for the operation of the Beovoz made it possible to partially open it as a final stop in light rail traffic. In 1995, the completion of the Vračar tunnel created a transverse diameter line to the bank of the Danube under the city, which enabled operations to run as far as Pančevo in the Banat. After the Vukov spomenik station also marked the general breakthrough in Belgrade's light rail traffic in 1995, the complete reconstruction of the previous infrastructure in the Belgrade Center station began in 1996. All existing railroad tracks were removed by erecting a 400 m long and 100 m wide reinforced concrete shell. This work was ended in 1999 when the NATO air war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia interrupted all further work for a long time.
Planning to resume construction work
The resumption of construction work at the station was regulated in March 2008 by the Serbian railway company Železnice Srbije and the construction company Energoprojekt in a contract for the completion of the station, which ended the several failed attempts to complete the station with private financing. It stated that construction would begin two months after ratification.
These complex negotiations between the Serbian Railways and Energoprojekt, which lasted several years, confirmed the original contracts with the company from 1996 and guaranteed the 100 million euros already brought in in the preparatory work for the construction of the station and the outstanding obligations of the State in the amount of 15 million euros, and provide additional security of 230 million.
Due to the lack of ratification of the treaty by the Serbian government, the implementation of the agreement was delayed again. The agreement was only ratified in a protocol dated October 17, 2008 between the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Mayor of Belgrade, the Director of the Railways of Serbia and in the presence of the Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković . The state of Serbia and the city of Belgrade agreed to cover the financial requirements for completion.
For 2009, funds from the city of Belgrade in the amount of 22 million euros will be brought in as measures to expand the urban transport infrastructure to the train station and 35 million euros from the state in the train station itself.
According to these plans, the implementation of the advertised infrastructure measures should have been completed within 18 months and the station should be technically able to guarantee rail operations. A resumption of the originally planned underground connection was also still associated with the project.
The Prokop station will thus occupy an area of 40,000 square meters and have six platforms and ten train tracks. After completion, the S-Bahn, U-Bahn and railway traffic will be integrated into a central rail network system with several transfer stations. For the first time, the new station also offers the connection of long-distance rail transport to Romania , which until now has only run via the Pančevački most station , to the closer city center.
Further construction
Due to the ongoing economic crisis in Serbia, all previous plans were called into question. Until 2010, only tracks 5 and 6 were set up for use in the operations of the S-Bahn-like system BG: voz . However, the Serbian government was able to secure a Kuwaiti loan of 26 million euros in 2012, which was used for the next phase of expansion of the station. Between December 2014 and January 26, 2016, the Kuwaiti Fund for Arab Economic Development set up the operational process through traffic acceptance, clearance and traffic control in the train station. In addition, the entire electronic-technical infrastructure of the station could be completed with the constructive completion of the tracks 3, 4, 7, 8 and the reconstruction of the tracks 9 and 10, the completion of the underground connecting routes to the platforms, the installation of traffic information systems, overhead lines and the Construction of four power diversion works, energy and telecommunication installations, traffic control systems and information networks, security systems of the station, as well as the installation of electronic signal and security systems of the station Karađorđev park as well as the Dedinje tunnel-rail crossing and the reconstruction of all signal systems are completed.
For the realization of the second expansion phase, the Kuwaiti financiers had pledged a further tranche of 40–45 million euros for the urban driveways, the station hall and commercial facilities in the planned shopping center and a large garage if the first phase was completed. According to the Minister for Infrastructure, Zorana Mihajlović, this work will start in March 2016 and will take 18 months.
Web links
- Video of the project operators on the concept of the Belgrade railway junction
- Video of the project operator on the construction and planning of the new main train station with the planned metro station
- Presentation of the Republic of Serbia
- Otvorena željeznička stanica Prokop - Aljazeera-Balkans TV report on the opening of the station
- Location, tracks and speeds on OpenRailway Map [1]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Infrastruktura Zeleznice Srbije, June 15, 2016 "Инфраструктура железнице Србије" од 1. јула обуставља железнички саобраћали саобраћаки саобраћана
- ↑ Dragan Đilas (then Lord Mayor of Belgrade) in Večernje Novosti, October 16, 2008 Beograd nije politika
- ↑ NZZ, October 15, 2014 Belgrade's risky major project on the banks of the Sava "Bring the city to the river"
- ↑ Energoprojekt, News release August 1st, 2014 UGOVOREN NOVI POSAO ENERGOPROJEKTA U SRBIJI VREDAN 25.8 MILIONA EVRA ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ RTS, January 26, 2016 Put do Prokopa
- ↑ Vlada Srbije, January 26, 2016 Prokop centar zeleznicke mreze Srbije
- ↑ Pruga, August 15, 2014 Почетак радова у нареднихмесец дана
- ↑ Ksenija N. Stevanović & Milena V. Stevanović 2014: Nove smjernice koncipiranja željeznikih kolodvora . Građevinar, 66, 8/2014, 739-747, p. 744
- ↑ Ksenija N. Stevanović & Milena V. Stevanović 2014: p. 744
- ↑ Tanjug, January 26, 2016 Mihajlovic: godinu dana za izmestanje stanice
- ↑ Ksenija N. Stevanović & Milena V. Stevanović 2014: p. 744
- ↑ Blic, February 11, 2009 lada Srbije odlučila da ubrza izgradnju nove stanice "Prokop" gotov do decembra ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Blic, October 17, 2008 Odbrojavanje za završetak “Prokopa” Danas ugovor, radovi kad počnu ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Politika, October 18, 2008 Još jedan rok za Prokop
- ↑ Blic, January 31, 2016 Crno bela fotografija - Ovako su izgledali projektanti Prokopa pre 40 godina
- ↑ Different variants from Živorad Lisičić's work on the appearance of the station
- ↑ Tanjug, January 26, 2016 Oтварање Железничке станице Прокоп, 40 година после
- ^ Ibid Još jedan rok za Prokop
- ↑ Železnice Srbije, March 24, 2008 "Železnice Srbije" i "Energoprojekt" potpisali Ugovor o izgradnji železničke stanice u Prokopu ( Memento of the original from August 8, 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.
- ↑ Politika, March 25, 2008 Potpisan ugovor za “Prokop” Izgradnja počinje dva meseca nakon saglasnosti vlade
- ↑ Železnice Srbije, October 17, 2008 Protocol about continuation of construction of railway station Belgrade Center-Prokop was signed ( Memento of the original from December 24, 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.
- ^ Politika, October 18, 2008 Država i Beograd završavaju Prokop
- ↑ RTS, December 29, 2008 Prioriteti Ministarstva za inf Infrastrukturu
- ↑ RTS, January 26, 2016 OKO Ekonomija: Пут до Прокопа
- ↑ Think Railways, January 27, 2016 Serbian Railways completes first phase Belgrade Center Station modernization
- ↑ RTS, OKO - Ekonomija "Put do Prokopa"
