Košice railway station ( sk, Železničná stanica Košice, also known for a short period as ''Košice hlavná stanica'') serves the

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Košice Košice ( , ; german: Kaschau ; hu, Kassa ; pl, Коszyce) is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of app ...

, seat of the Košice Region, eastern

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. Opened in 1860, the station is the eastern terminus of the Košice–Žilina railway, which forms part of Slovakia's main east-west rail corridor. It is also the terminus of a number of other lines, some of them linking Slovakia with other countries. The station is currently owned by

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(ŽSR); train services are operated by Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko (ZSSK),

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(RJ) and

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(LE) (since 14 December 2014).

Location

Košice railway station is situated at Staničné námestie, about east of

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. It is near the western bank of the river Hornád, in the borough of

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, which forms part of the Košice I district.

History

The station was opened on 14 August 1860, upon the inauguration of the Miskolc–Košice railway, which linked Košice with Miskolc in present-day

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. The current

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has been in place since 1973, and is a modified version of an earlier building constructed in 1871.

Lines

Košice railway station is a hub for the following Slovakian railway lines: *160 Zvolen–Košice *169 Košice−Hidasnémeti (

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) *180 Košice–Žilina *188 (Košice)–Kysak–Prešov–Muszyna (PKP) *190 Košice–Čierna nad Tisou–Chop (Ukrsalisnyzja) Lines 180 and 190 combine to form part of

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, which runs from

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in Italy to

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in Ukraine, via

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, Košice and Uzhhorod.

Interchange

The station offers interchange with Košice trams and local buses managed by the ''Dopravný podnik mesta Košice'' (DPMK), or Košice Transit Company. Košice's long distance bus station is nearby.

Services

References

External links

Košice railway station on vlaky.net
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