Kalisz railway station is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

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, in the

Greater Poland Voivodeship Greater Poland Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo wielkopolskie; ), also known as Wielkopolska Voivodeship, Wielkopolska Province, or Greater Poland Province, is a voivodeship, or province, in west-central Poland. It was created on 1 January 1999 o ...

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. The station opened in 1902 and is located on the Łódź–Forst (Lausitz) railway. The train services are operated by PKP and

Polregio Polregio (formerly ''Przewozy Regionalne'') is a train operator in Poland, responsible for local and interregional passenger transportation. Each day it runs approximately 3,000 regional trains. In 2002 it carried 215 million passengers. The ...

History

The station was built in 1902 as the final stop of the

Warsaw–Kalisz Railway The Warsaw - Kalisz Railway ( pl, Kolej Warszawsko-Kaliska), also called Kalisz Railway is a railway in Poland connecting Warsaw and Kalisz. It was built between 1900 - 1902 by the ''Society of the Warsaw–Vienna railway'' in the Russian-controlle ...

. In 1906, a line was added to

Nowe Skalmierzyce Nowe Skalmierzyce (german: Neu Skalmierschütz, 1943-45 Kalmen) is a town and its surrounding municipality in Ostrów Wielkopolski County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. The town has a population of 5,093 (2006 est.), while t ...

, the border crossing between the Russian-controlled

Vistula Land Vistula Land, Vistula Country (russian: Привислинский край, ''Privislinsky krai''; pl, Kraj Nadwiślański) was the name applied to the lands of Congress Poland from 1867, following the defeats of the November Uprising (1830–3 ...

and the German Empire. In the past numerous international trains departed from Kalisz, to destinations such as Moscow, Baku, Prague, Frankfurt, Dresden, Paris, Ostend and Calais. Even in the late twentieth century Kalisz can be reached abroad. The last international train services was "Bohemia" (Warsaw - Wroclaw - Pardubice - Prague).

Modernisation

The station building was to be upgraded before the Euro 2012. However, due to contract issues and delays the renovations were not completed until November 2015. The modernised station was opened on 27 November 2015.

Train services

The station is served by the following service(s): * Intercity services (IC) ''Wrocław Główny — Łódź — Warszawa Wschodnia'' *Intercity services (IC) ''Białystok - Warszawa - Łódź - Ostrów Wielkopolski - Wrocław'' *Intercity services (IC) ''Ełk - Białystok - Warszawa - Łódź - Ostrów Wielkopolski - Wrocław'' * Intercity services (IC) ''Zgorzelec - Legnica - Wrocław - Ostrów Wielkopolski - Łódź - Warszawa'' *Intercity services ''Jelenia Gora - Wroclaw - Ostrow Wielkopolski - Kalisz - Lodz - Warsaw - Lublin/Bialystok''* InterRegio services (IR) ''Ostrów Wielkopolski — Łódź — Warszawa Główna'' * InterRegio services (IR) ''Poznań Główny — Ostrów Wielkopolski — Łódź — Warszawa Główna'' * Regiona services (PR) ''Łódź Kaliska — Ostrów Wielkopolski'' * Regional services (PR) ''Łódź Kaliska — Ostrów Wielkopolski — Poznań Główny'' Polregio. PR 17503 Łódź Kaliska — Poznań Główny. Timetable
https://bilety.polregio.pl/pociag/REG/17503/
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Bus services

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References

*Station article a
kolej.one.pl
* ''This article is based upon a translation of the Polish language version as of July 2016.''

External links

* Railway stations in Greater Poland Voivodeship Railway stations served by Przewozy Regionalne InterRegio Railway stations opened in 1902

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