Čierna nad Tisou railway station ( sk, Železničná stanica Čierna nad Tisou) is an important border railway station in the town of
Čierna nad Tisou
Čierna nad Tisou ( hu, Tiszacsernyő) is a town and municipality in the Trebišov District in the Košice Region of extreme south-eastern Slovakia, near the Tisa (Tisza) river.
History
The town and municipality is one of the newest in the Koš ...
,
Košice Region
The Košice Region ( sk, Košický kraj, , hu, Kassai kerület; uk, Кошицький край) is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions. The region was first established in 1923 and its present borders were established in 1996. It c ...
,
Slovakia
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. It is close to the border with
Ukraine
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and, as the railways have two different gauges, all trains have to change gauge here: the railway has 916 tracks and is the biggest 'harbour on land' in Central Europe. The first station across the border is
Chop. The station is on the
Pan-European Corridor VA from
Venice
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in Italy to
Kiev in Ukraine via
Bratislava,
Žilina
Žilina (; hu, Zsolna, ; german: Sillein, or ; pl, Żylina , names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the fourth largest city of ...
,
Košice and
Uzhhorod
Uzhhorod ( uk, У́жгород, , ; ) is a city and municipality on the river Uzh in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. The city is approximately equidistant from the Baltic, the Adriatic and the ...
.
Train services
The station is served by the following trains:
*Osobný vlak (local stopping service) ''Košice - Čierna nad Tisou''
*RegionalExpress ''Košice - Čierna nad Tisou''
*Osobný vlak (local stopping service) ''Čierna nad Tisou - Chop''
See also
*
Uzhhorod–Košice broad-gauge track, a Russian-gauge line from Ukraine into Slovakia
References
External links
Slovak Railways website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cierna Nad Tisou Railway Station
Railway stations in Košice Region