Nitra railway station is situated at Staničná street in the Staré Mesto district of

Nitra Nitra (; also known by other alternative names) is a city in western Slovakia, situated at the foot of Zobor Mountain in the valley of the river Nitra. It is located 95 km east of Bratislava. With a population of about 78,353, it is the fifth la ...

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

. Nearby is a busy bus station and a bus stop served by the city's public transport network. Nitra is nowadays out of main railway corridors and the significance of railway transport is only regional.

History

The history of railways in Nitra dates back to the second half of the nineteenth century. Track section

Ivanka pri Nitre Ivanka pri Nitre ( hu, Nyitraivánka) is a village and municipality in the Nitra District in western central Slovakia, in the Nitra Region. History In historical records the village was first mentioned in 1400. The Byzantine Monomachus crown wa ...

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(Nyitra) was opened in 1876 and connected

(Nyitra) with tracks

Šurany Šurany (until 1927, ''Veľké Šurany''; hu, Nagysurány; german: Schuran) is a town and a railroad hub in the Nové Zámky District, Nitra Region, southern Slovakia. Alongside the main settlement, it has the boroughs of Kostolný Sek and Nitri ...

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Palárikovo Palárikovo ( hu, Tótmegyer) is a large village and municipality in the Nové Zámky District in the Nitra Region of south-west Slovakia. Names and etymology The village is named after a Slovak playwright Ján Palárik. The historic Slovak na ...

(Tótmegyer) - Šurany (Nagysurány). Railway to

Topoľčany Topoľčany (; sk, Veľké Topoľčany before 1920; hu, Nagytapolcsány) is a town in the Nitra Region of Slovakia. The population is around 25,000 in total. The town's population is nicknamed ''Žochári'' (singl. ''Žochár'') (producers, or o ...

(Nagytapolcsány) was opened in 1881 and local track Nitra -

Zbehy Zbehy ( hu, Üzbég) is a village and municipality in the Nitra District in Slovakia. Local areas like Andač and Holotka belong to the village Zbehy. History The village was first mentioned in a historical record in the year 1156 as ''Jegu''. U ...

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Radošina Radošina ( hu, Radosna) is a municipality in the Topoľčany District of the Nitra Region, Slovakia. In 2011 it had 2013 inhabitants.http://portal.statistics.sk/files/obce-pohl-vek.pdf It is located in the southwestern part of Topoľčany distr ...

(Radosna) in 1909. Main building was built around 1876, and extended with dispatchers' offices in 1921. Today's look of the building originates in 1925, after the electrification of station lights was finished.

Reconstruction

The railway station is scheduled to undertake complete reconstruction in 2014–2015. The approximate budget for the reconstruction is 4 150 000 € without

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. Because of

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and lack of funds at ŽSR (''Železnice Slovenskej Republiky'') the future of this project remains unclear.
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Services

References

Buildings and structures in Nitra

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