Kraków Główny railway station
Kraków Główny | |||||
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Station platforms in July 2021. | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship Poland | ||||
| Coordinates | 50°03′56″N 19°56′50″E / 50.06556°N 19.94722°E | ||||
| Owned by | PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe | ||||
| Platforms | 10 | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1847 | ||||
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Kraków Główny, in English Kraków Main, is the largest and the most centrally located railway station in Kraków, Poland.
The railway station was situated in a historical building, constructed between 1844 and 1847 by Rosenbaum, which lies parallel to the tracks. The design was chosen to allow for future line expansion. The station was initially a terminus of the Kraków – Upper Silesia Railway (Kolej Krakowsko-Górnośląska, German: Oberschlesische-Krakauer Eisenbahn). Trains entered the trainshed via a brick archway at the northern end of the station which was almost doubled in size in 1871. In 2014, a new building was opened.
In 2023, it served 23.4 million passengers, making it the country's third busiest railway station behind Wrocław Główny and Poznań Główny stations.