Tunel (railroad station)
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Tunel railway station is a
railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...
in the former village of Tunel, near
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, in the
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,
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. The station opened in 1885 and is located on the Warsaw–Kraków railway and Tunel–Sosnowiec railway. The train services are operated by
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and
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. Currently, the area of the village is incorporated into another village, Uniejów-Rędziny, part of
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. However, the station located at one end of a rail tunnel still bears the name Tunel. The tunnel, after which the village was named, is 768 metres long, and was built in 1934 under the Biala Gora hill. The station of Tunel is a main rail junction, where lines go into three directions - towards
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,
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, and
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.


Train services

The station is served by the following services: *Regional services (R) ''Kielce - Sędziszów - Kozłów - Bukowno - Dąbrowa Górnicza - Sosnowiec - Katowice'' *Regional services (R) ''Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski - Skarżysko-Kamienna - Kielce - Sędziszów - Kozłów - Miechów - Kraków'' *Regional services (KMŁ) ''Kielce - Sędziszów - Kozłów - Miechów - Kraków''


References


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


External links


Photo of the Tunel station
Uniejow-Redziny Railway stations in Lesser Poland Voivodeship Railway stations in Poland opened in 1885 {{Poland-railstation-stub