Kysak railway station

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Kysak
View of the station yard, 2009
Station statistics
Address	04481 Kysak Kysak Košice-okolie Košice Region Slovakia
Coordinates	48°51′10″N 21°13′26″E / 48.85278°N 21.22389°E / 48.85278; 21.22389Coordinates: 48°51′10″N 21°13′26″E / 48.85278°N 21.22389°E / 48.85278; 21.22389
Elevation	298 m (978 ft)
Line(s)	Košice–Žilina (Košice)–Plaveč–Čirč–Muszyna (PKP)
Connections	Local buses
Distance	114.434 km (71.106 mi) from Slovakia—Ukraine border
Other information
Opened	1 September 1870 (1870-09-01)
Owned by	Železnice Slovenskej republiky (ŽSR)
Operator	Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko (ZSSK)
Location
Location within Slovakia

Kysak railway station (Slovak: Železničná stanica Kysak) serves the village and municipality of Kysak, in the Košice Region, eastern Slovakia. Opened in 1870, the station is an important railway junction, where the Košice–Plaveč–Čirč–Muszyna railway diverges towards Poland from the Košice–Žilina railway, which is part of Slovakia's main east-west rail corridor.

The station is currently owned by Železnice Slovenskej republiky (ŽSR); train services are operated by Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko (ZSSK).

Location

Kysak railway station is situated at the eastern edge of the village.

History

The station was opened on 1 September 1870, upon the inauguration of the Košice–Prešov section of the Košice–Plaveč–Čirč–Muszyna railway.

It became a junction station soon afterwards, on 12 March 1872, when the section of the Košice–Bohumín Railway between Spišská Nová Ves and Kysak was completed.

Facilities

The two storey station building houses information and ticketing facilities, and a restaurant.

The station yard has six tracks equipped with platforms for passenger services and four tracks for freight workings.

Train services

Kysak railway station is the junction of the following Slovakian railway lines:

180 Košice–Žilina (part of the Košice–Bohumín Railway)
188 Košice–Plaveč–Čirč–Muszyna (PKP)

Line 180 forms part of Pan-European Corridor Va, which runs from Venice in Italy to Kiev in Ukraine, via Bratislava, Žilina, Košice and Uzhhorod.

Passenger train traffic is made up of local trains and long distance services to and from Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

Interchange

The station offers interchange with local buses.

Services

Preceding station	ŽSSK	Following station
Spišská Nová Ves toward Prague	EuroNight EN Slovakia	Košice Terminus
Poprad-Tatry toward Bratislava	InterCity	Košice Terminus
Margecany toward Žilina	Regional fast trains	Košice toward Humenné
Prešov Terminus	Regional fast trains	Košice toward Zvolen
Veľká Lodina toward Gelnica or Poprad-Tatry	Stopping trains	Trebejov toward Košice
Obišovce toward Prešov	Stopping trains	Trebejov toward Košice

References

Catchpole, Paul (1998). Steam and Rail in Slovakia. Kings Norton, Birmingham, England: Locomotives International. ISBN 1-900340-08-9.

External links

Media related to Kysak railway station at Wikimedia Commons

Kysak railway station on vlaky.net (Slovak)

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