Praha-Libeň railway station ( cs, Nádraží Praha-Libeň) is a mainline railway station located in the

Libeň Libeň (german: Lieben) is a cadastral area and district of Prague, Czech Republic. It was incorporated into Prague in 1901. People

* Reinhard Heydrich, assassinated here * Herz Homberg, born here * Ernestine Schumann-Heink, born here * ...

district of

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. It is situated on Line 11, which links Prague to

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and

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as well as forming part of the main railway corridor connecting the Czech capital to

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and

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. Since reconstruction of the station, which took place between 2008 and 2010 as part of the ''

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'' project, a number of international services running to and from the more central

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now also call here. In addition to its passenger handling facilities (the station was used by 876,000 passengers in 2006)Ročenka dopravy Praha 2006
the Praha-Libeň station area is also home to a large freight yard and is an important centre for services operated by ČD Cargo. The line from Olomouc to Prague, as first opened in 1845, passed through what was then the village of Libeň, but it was not until 1877 that a station was built – between the stations then named ''Praha statní nádraží'' (today's Masarykovo nádraží) and

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– to serve the locality. In 1923 Libeň station was renamed Libeň horní nádraží (Libeň high-level station) to distinguish it from the low-level station (dolní nádraží) which led to the now demolished terminus at Těšnov. In 1926 a cut-and-cover line was built under

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hill linking Libeň station to Praha hlavní nádraží. In the late 1970s the station was modernised and shortly afterwards a new link was built to

Praha-Holešovice railway station Praha-Holešovice railway station ( cs, Nádraží Praha-Holešovice) is located in Holešovice, a northern district of Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic. Opened in 1985, the station was originally used as a terminus for international f ...

, intended to serve the international services which the two central stations no longer had the capacity to handle. The station is situated within walking distance of the

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, and thus played a key role in the infrastructure provided for the

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.Revitalizace železniční stanice Praha Libeň
SUDOP Praha 2004 Libeň station is not connected to the Prague Metro, but is served by buses and trams operating as part of the city's public transport system.

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