Ivano-Frankivsk railway station

Ivano-Frankivsk
Ukrainian: Залізнична станція "Івано-Франківськ"

passenger

Terminal of Ivano-Frankivsk station

Location

Pryvokzalna Ploshcha, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine

Coordinates

48°55′31″N 24°43′24″E / 48.92528°N 24.72333°ECoordinates: 48°55′31″N 24°43′24″E / 48.92528°N 24.72333°E

Owned by

Ukrzaliznytsia

Operated by

Lviv Railways

Platforms

1 (main platform), 2 (island platform)

Tracks

Connections

Bus terminal
City bus
City trolleybus

Construction

Structure type

at-grade

Parking

yes

Other information

Station code

388404

History

Opened

1866

Rebuilt

1906

Electrified

1897

Services

Preceding station		Lviv Railways		Following station

Ivano-Frankivsk railway station, locally Station "Ivano-Frankivsk", (Ukrainian: Станція Івано-Франківськ) is the main station of the Ivano-Frankivsk directory of Lviv Railways.

Historical outlook

The railway station in Ivano-Frankivsk was established in 1866 when the city of Stanislau was part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria within the Austro-Hungary. It became one of the oldest train stations in Ukraine. The station was built as part of the expansion of the Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis from Lemberg (Lviv) towards Czernowitz (Chernivtsi). Along with the station right next to it was found a machine maintenance shop that later was transformed into a steam locomotive maintenance shop.

The terminal of the station was built using elements of the Mauritanian style. The first train that traveled from Lemberg to Czernowitz stopped at Stanislau on September 1, 1866. In 1894 Stanislau became the district center of the Austrian State Railways. The railways terminal became the first city's structure in Ivano-Frankivsk that was electrified on January 13, 1897. The electricity was installed by the German company out of Berlin Siemens & Halske.

From 1903 through 1906 under the leadership of the Vienna architect E.Baudisch, the terminal was expanded. A railway post office was built nearby.