Kosovo Polje railway station (Fushë Kosova railway station) is a

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in the town of Kosovo Polje,

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. It is the largest railway station in Kosovo and headquarters of

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. The station is situated in

Pristina District The District of Pristina ( sq, Rajoni i Prishtinës, sr, Приштински округ, Prištinski okrug) is a district in Kosovo. Its seat is the capital city of Pristina. It consists of eight municipalities and 298 villages. According to th ...

, but the city of

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is served by

Pristina railway station Pristina railway station ( sq, Stacioni i trenit në Prishtinë, sr, / ) is the central railway station in the city of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. It opened on Tirana Boulevard (formerly 'Omladinskih Brigada') in 1936, having been const ...

. In September 1999, after the

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, the '' Kosovo Train for Life'' arrived at Kosovo Polje station, carrying 400 tonnes of

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, having traveled all the away from the United Kingdom, through the

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, and via France, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Macedonia, hauled by a trio of

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diesel locomotives.

References

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