Poznań Główny railway station

Poznań Central Station (Polish: Poznań Główny, commonly called Dworzec Główny) is the main railway station for the city of Poznań, Poland's fifth largest city, and capital of the Greater Poland voivodeship.

Investment and modernization

PKP SA signed an investment agreement with the developer Trigranit Development Corporation. The agreement paves the way for the construction of an integrated transport centre in Poznan, with a value of 160 million euros. This will include a new railway station, parking for 900 cars and a bus station. The investment has been under consideration by PKP SA since 2007, and in 2009 the company finally entered into independent negotiations with seven companies specialising in investments in commercial real estate.

The surrounding area, as well as the station building itself will be completely rebuilt and connected to the bus station and the site of the international congress/convention centre. The new station concourse will cover the currently eastern-most platforms, and the entire investment aims to provide an integrated transport complex, which is associated with the organization of Euro 2012 in Poznan. Construction work on the construction of the new station will begin in the first half of 2011 and is expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2012. A new railway station with an area of 7,000 sq m located over the railway lines will be only one element of the whole hub which, with its accompanying shopping center will cover an area of 16,000 sq. m. The transport node will have three levels of functionality.

Due to the city's 2010 budget deficit, which resulted from using public funds to build a municipal stadium, the city of Poznan has announced that most of the promised rail investment will be significantly delayed in time, and could remain un-financed even up to 2016.

• Poznan - Integrated Communication Centre
• Date of commencement of construction work: Fourth Quarter 2010
• Deadline for completion of the construction: the second quarter of 2012
• The value of investments: 160 million
• Sources of funding: PKP SA and means of private developer - Trigranit

Trivia

• At the Summer Station (platform 4b) December 27, 1918, Ignacy Paderewski arrived, and here he began his visit in Poznan, which resulted in the outbreak of the Greater Poland Uprising.
• Along the main road leading from the railway station to the city center is a large number of antiaircraft bunkers from World War II.
• At the train station during the communist underground hospital was prepared in the event of war. He was fully equipped and regularly visited by the secret services.
• When the platform 4a twice a day can meet the locomotive leading the train scheduled to Wolsztyn. You will also stop the trains, "Pirate", "Cegielski" and several others carried out steam traction.
• November 25, 2006 in the hall of the station Ryszard Kapuscinski unveiled a plaque dedicated to the traveler Kazimierz Nowak, who beat 40 thousand. km on foot and by bicycle through Africa.
• Trains are announced by the computer. It is so far the only such system operated in Poland, which voiced by Paul Binkowski, New Theatre actor.
• The area around the railway station since the early nineties lasts the dispute between the Railway authorities, the City and the authorities of Wielkopolska. This is the area of several acres of land called the "slow lane". Railway authorities in Warsaw did not want to give this area the City of Poznan, despite that they themselves do not benefit from it. This area is located in the center of the city.

Destinations

(EN/EC) = international routes operated in conjunction with foreign rail operators, (TLK/IC) = operated by PKP Intercity, (REGIO) = operated by Przewozy Regionalne and other regional operators.

External Links

• Media related to [//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pozna%C5%84_G%C5%82%C3%B3wny Poznań Główny] at Wikimedia Commons
• Poznań Główny Railway Station - Integrated Transport Centre Website