Poznań Wschód railway station ( en, Poznań East) is a railway station serving the north east of the city of Poznań, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. The station is located at the junction of the

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and Poznań–Bydgoszcz railway. The train services are operated by

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and

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History

The station used to be known as ''Poznań Główna'' after the neighbourhood it lies in, however this caused confusion with the similarly named

Poznań Główny railway station Poznań Główny, anglicised to Poznan Main, is the chief railway station for the city of Poznań, Poland's fifth-largest city, and capital of the Greater Poland Province. The station is located at a junction of Warsaw–Kunowice railway, Wr ...

, the main station of the city. The station was therefore renamed ''Poznań Wschodni'' and later changed to its current name of ''Poznań Wschod''.

Train services

The station is served by the following service(s): *Regional services (R) ''Poznan - Gniezno - Mogilno - Inowroclaw - Bydgoszcz'' *Regional services (R) ''Poznan - Gniezno - Mogilno - Inowroclaw - Torun'' *Regional services (R) ''Leszno - Poznan'' *Regional services (KW) ''Poznan - Wrzesnia - Konin - Kutno'' *Regional services (KW) ''Poznan - Gniezno'' *Regional services (KW) ''Poznan - Murowana Goślina - Wągrowiec - Gołańcz''

References

* ''This article is based upon a translation of the Polish language version as of April 2016.''

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Poznan Wschod railway station Wschód Railway stations in Greater Poland Voivodeship Railway stations served by Przewozy Regionalne InterRegio