Belgrade Centre Railway Station Prokop Железничка станица Београд Центар | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Prokupačka St. Savski Venac, Belgrade Serbia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 44°47′37″N 20°27′14″E / 44.7936°N 20.4539°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Serbian Railways Infrastructure | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 5 operational (6 planned + 2 metro platforms planned) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 8 operational (10 planned + 2 metro tracks planned) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Srbija Voz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1974 (Partially) 7 July 1995 (Beovoz) 1 September 2010 (BG Voz) 10 December 2017 (Main national) 1 July 2018 (Central) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Belgrade Centre Railway Station (Serbian: Железничка станица Београд Центар, romanized: Železnička stanica Beograd Centar), colloquially known as Prokop (Serbian Cyrillic: Прокоп), is the new central railway station in Belgrade, Serbia. The station is located in the Belgrade municipality of Savski Venac. Although unfinished, it serves as de facto main railway station of the city, after replacing the old main station at the Belgrade Waterfront.[1]
The unsuccessful, decades-long attempted construction of the new central railway station of Belgrade was hampered by a lack of funding to finish the adjoining 14 km of tunnels, several railway bridges including the New Railroad Bridge across the Sava river, a new road network connecting to the city and technical installations. Construction of the new station faced countless setbacks over a period of several decades.[2] The entire construction process has been described as infamous, with deadlines being missed one after another.[3]
Belgrade Centre station was opened on 26 January 2016,[4] serving two daily trains to Novi Sad, as well as Belgrade commuter railways.[5] Following gradual re-routing, it gained its current role on 1 July 2018.
It is connected to the city centre by bus route 36 (GSP Belgrade) to Savski Trg and Slavija, operating every 40 minutes.[6][7] Additionally, it is connected with the New Belgrade and the Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport via bus route 600 (GSP Belgrade).
- ^ Polazak: Prokop postaje glavna stanice Beograda
- ^ Dejan Aleksić, Daliborka Mučibabić (17 July 2019). Држава тражи партнера за завршетак Прокопа [State searching for partner to finish Prokop]. Politika (in Serbian). p. 15.
- ^ Dejan Aleksić, Daliborka Mučibabić (28 December 2019). "Holandsko-bugarska kompanija potencijalni graditelj Prokopa" [Dutch-Bulgarian company potential constructor of Prokop]. Politika (in Serbian). p. 14.
- ^ "Vucic opens Prokop railway station after 40 years". Tanjug. 26 January 2016.
- ^ "Vučić otvorio "Prokop" posle 40 godina gradnje: Cela stanica gotova 2018". Blic. 26 January 2016.
- ^ "Red vožnje - linije 36" (PDF). GSP Belgrade. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 April 2016.
- ^ "Belgrade Public Transport Map : inat". www.inat.fr. Retrieved 23 June 2021.