Pidzamche railway station (also known as Lviv-Pidzamche) 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 tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

of the

Lviv Railways Lviv Railways (abbreviated as LR) ( uk, Львівська залізниця) is a territorial branch company of Ukrzaliznytsia headquartered in Lviv. General description Lviv Railways administers all railroads of Lviv Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblas ...

located in

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

, 7 km away from the city's main railway terminal. Officially considered a freight station, it is nevertheless served by all passing suburban trains, as well as several long-distance trains.

History

The station got its name from the

Lviv High Castle The Lviv High Castle ( uk, Високий замок, translit=Vysokyi zamok; pl, Wysoki Zamek we Lwowie) is a historic castle located on the top of the Castle Hill of the city of Lviv. It is currently the highest point in the city, above sea ...

hill ( uk, Замкова гора, italic=yes) at the foot of which the station is located. Part of the station is built on top of a former cemetery. The original station building was damaged in the

Polish–Ukrainian War The Polish–Ukrainian War, from November 1918 to July 1919, was a conflict between the Second Polish Republic and Ukrainian forces (both the West Ukrainian People's Republic and Ukrainian People's Republic). The conflict had its roots in ethn ...

of 1918–1919, and even more so in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. The remains of the original building now house the railway offices, whereas the current two-storey passenger hall with the big central

avant-corps An ''avant-corps'' ( it, avancorpo or , plural , german: Risalit, pl, ryzalit), a French term literally meaning "fore-body", is a part of a building, such as a porch or pavilion, that juts out from the ''corps de logis'', often taller than othe ...

is a post-WWII reconstruction based on the original designs. A memorial plaque on the station building commemorates the bodies of 602 victims of the

Soviet famine of 1946–47 The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

which were discovered near the station during reconstruction works in the 2000s.

Operations

Between 1 December 2009 and 15 June 2010, Pidzamche railway station was one of the two termini of ''Lviv City Railbus'', which was then discontinued for unprofitability. Until 2016, none of the passing long-distance trains served the station. Over 2016, the schedules of three long-distance trains were amended to include a stop at Pidzamche: № 92/91 (Lviv —

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

), № 705/706 (Kyiv —

Przemyśl Przemyśl (; yi, פשעמישל, Pshemishl; uk, Перемишль, Peremyshl; german: Premissel) is a city in southeastern Poland with 58,721 inhabitants, as of December 2021. In 1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it was pr ...

), and № 743/744 (Lviv —

Darnytsia Darnytskyi District ( uk, Дарницький район, ), is an urban district of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. It is the southeastern district of Kyiv located on the left bank of Dnipro river. It borders the Holosiivskyi District of the city t ...

). On 12 July 2017, seven more long-distance trains were scheduled to stop at the station.Починаючи з 12 липня 2017 року сім поїздів зупинятимуться на станції Підзамче
— ''Офіційний веб-сайт ПАТ «Укрзалізниця»'', 26 травня 2017 Since 2017, the station has been served by six daily long-distance trains (Lviv —

Odesa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative ...

Dnipro Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

—

Truskavets Truskavets ( uk, Трускавець, romanized: ''Truskavets''; pl, Truskawiec) is a city in Drohobych Raion, western Ukraine's Lviv Oblast (region), near the border with Poland. It hosts the administration of Truskavets urban hromada, one of t ...

, Lviv —

, Kyiv —

, Lviv —

Darnytsia railway station , native_name_lang = , type = , style = , image = Приміський вокзал Дарниця.jpg , image_size = , image_caption = Commuter terminal , address = 3 Pryvokzalna St., Kyiv , country ...

) and three that run every other day (Lviv —

Novooleksiivka Novooleksiivka ( uk, Новоолексіївка) is an urban-type settlement in the Henichesk raion of Kherson oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to the Henichesk urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It had a population of History In 1874 ...

and Lviv —

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Rivne Rivne (; uk, Рівне ),) also known as Rovno (Russian: Ровно; Polish: Równe; Yiddish: ראָוונע), is a city in western Ukraine. The city is the administrative center of Rivne Oblast (province), as well as the surrounding Rivne Raio ...

and Lviv —

Kivertsi Kivertsi (, ) is a town in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Kivertsi urban hromada. Area in total - 848,200 ha. Population: Kivertsi is located in Ukraine and time zone Europe/Kyiv, 12 km northeast from the city ...

References

{{Lviv-related topics Lviv Railways stations Railway stations in Lviv Oblast