Košice railway station (, also known for a short period as ''Košice hlavná stanica'') serves the

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Košice Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest cit ...

, seat of the

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, eastern

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. Opened in 1860, the station is the eastern terminus of the Košice–Žilina railway, which forms part of Slovakia's main east–west rail corridor. It is also the terminus of a number of other lines, some of them linking Slovakia with other countries. The station is currently owned by

Železnice Slovenskej republiky Railways of the Slovak Republic (, acronym: ''ŽSR'') is the state-owned railway infrastructure company of Slovakia. The company was established in 1993 as the successor to the Czechoslovak State Railways () in Slovakia following the dissolut ...

(ŽSR); train services are operated by

Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko, a.s. (ZSSK) (') is a Slovak state-owned passenger train company based in Bratislava. In 2002 a company Železničná spoločnosť was established as a successor of personal and cargo transport part of the ...

(ZSSK), RegioJet (RJ) and LEO Express (LE) (since 14 December 2014).

Location

Košice railway station is situated at Staničné námestie, about east of St. Elisabeth Cathedral. It is near the western bank of the river

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, in the borough of Staré Mesto, which forms part of the

Košice I Košice I () is a district in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia, in the city of Košice Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the bord ...

district.

History

The station was opened on 14 August 1860, upon the inauguration of the Miskolc–Košice railway, which linked Košice with

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in present-day

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. The current

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has been in place since 1973, and is a modified version of an earlier building constructed in 1871.

Lines

Košice railway station is a hub for the following Slovakian railway lines: *160 Zvolen–Košice *169 Košice−Hidasnémeti (

MÁV START The Hungarian State Railways (, , formally MÁV Magyar Államvasutak Zártkörűen Működő Részvénytársaság (MÁV Zrt.). The full official name of the company is MÁV-csoport () now commonly known as MÁV) is the Hungary, Hungarian natio ...

) *180 Košice–Žilina *188 (Košice)–Kysak–Prešov–Muszyna (PKP) *190 Košice–Čierna nad Tisou–Chop (Ukrsalisnyzja) Lines 180 and 190 combine to form part of Pan-European Corridor Va, which runs from

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in Italy to

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in Ukraine, via

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Žilina Žilina (; ; ; ; Names of European cities in different languages: U-Z#Z, 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 List of cities ...

, Košice and

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Interchange

The station offers interchange with Košice trams and local buses managed by the ''Dopravný podnik mesta Košice'' (DPMK), or Košice Transit Company. Košice's long-distance bus station is nearby.

Services

References

External links

Košice railway station on vlaky.net
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