Gdynia Główna railway station


Gdynia Główna railway station is the main railway station serving the city of Gdynia in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. It served 13.41 million passengers in 2022, making it the busiest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the sixth busiest railway station in Poland. The station opened in 1921 and is located on the Nowa Wieś Wielka–Gdynia Port railway, Gdańsk–Stargard railway and the parallel Gdańsk Śródmieście–Rumia railway. Trains are operated by PKP, Polregio and SKM Tricity. The station is located in a historic modernist building.

History

The first railway station in the centre of Gdynia opened on 1 January 1894. Initially, it held only a small wooden waiting room, several lamps and a board identifying name of the stop. In 1920, Gdynia began to grow very quickly as a city and a port under the Second Polish Republic, and this resulted in a significant increase in passenger rail traffic. Therefore, between 1923 and 1926, a new imposing art-deco main building was constructed, designed by Romuald Miller and opening on 15 July 1926. Its interior featured a large waiting room, ticket windows, toilets, luggage storage, a restaurant, bookstore, money exchange, and hairdresser.
The railway station building was destroyed in World War II. In the 1950s a new station was built, designed by professor. The building is a unique combination of social realism and pre-war art-moderne modernism. In the station's main waiting room several notable wall and ceiling frescoes of sea landscapes were re-discovered during the 2008 renovation after having been covered over in the intervening years. In the dining hall, the wall paintings depict the celestial bodies and signs of the zodiac, and a mosaic illustrates Pegasus.
The station under Nazi German occupation was known as Gotenhafen. Until 11 March 2004, the station was officially called Gdynia Osobowa. Then all the markings were changed to "Gdynia Glowna"; among others, a large inscription saying "Osobowa" on the station building was dismantled.

Modernisation

In August 2008, the station building was entered in the register of monuments. In the same year, a modernisation program of the station was initiated, which included reconstruction of the station concourse, new canopies on the platforms, and changes in the rail traffic control system. During this work, in 2011, an original long brick wall from the 1926 station was discovered. It has been preserved and integrated into the newly renovated interior. On 6 June 2012 the modernised station was officially opened. The investment cost 40.7 million euro and was financed in part with EU funds.

Train services

The station is served by the following services:
  • EuroCity services Gdynia - Gdansk - Bydgoszcz - Poznan - Rzepin - Frankfurt - Berlin
  • EuroCity services Gdynia - Gdansk - Malbork - Warsaw - Katowice - Bohumin - Ostrava - Prerov - Breclav - Vienna
  • Express Intercity Premium services Gdynia - Warsaw
  • Express Intercity Premium services Gdynia - Warsaw - Katowice - Gliwice/Bielsko-Biała
  • Express Intercity Premium services Gdynia/Kołobrzeg - Warsaw - Kraków
  • Intercity services Gdynia - Gdansk - Bydgoszcz - Poznań - Wrocław - Opole - Katowice - Kraków - Rzeszów - Przemyśl
  • Intercity services Gdynia - Gdańsk - Bydgoszcz - Toruń - Kutno - Łódź - Częstochowa - Katowice - Bielsko-Biała
  • Intercity services Gdynia - Gdańsk - Bydgoszcz - Łódź - Czestochowa — Kraków — Zakopane
  • Intercity services Gdynia - Gdańsk - Bydgoszcz - Poznań - Zielona Góra
  • Intercity services Gdynia - Gdańsk - Bydgoszcz - Poznań - Wrocław
  • Intercity services Łódź Fabryczna — Warsaw — Gdańsk Glowny — Kołobrzeg
  • Intercity services Szczecin - Koszalin - Słupsk - Gdynia - Gdańsk
  • Intercity services Szczecin - Koszalin - Słupsk - Gdynia - Gdańsk - Elbląg/Iława - Olsztyn
  • Intercity services Szczecin - Koszalin - Słupsk - Gdynia - Gdańsk - Elbląg - Olsztyn - Białystok
  • Intercity services Gdynia Główna — Kostrzyn
  • Intercity services Gdynia Główna — Warsaw — Kraków — Zakopane
  • Intercity services Kołobrzeg — Gdynia Główna — Warszawa Wschodnia — Kraków Główny
  • Regional services Tczew — Gdynia Chylonia
  • Regional services Tczew — Słupsk
  • Regional services Malbork — Słupsk
  • Regional services Malbork — Gdynia Chylonia
  • Regional services Elbląg — Gdynia Chylonia
  • Regional services Elbląg — Słupsk
  • Regional services Chojnice — Tczew — Gdynia Główna
  • Regional services Gdynia Chylonia — Olsztyn Główny
  • Regional services Gdynia Chylonia — Smętowo
  • Regional services Gdynia Chylonia — Laskowice Pomorskie
  • Regional services Gdynia Chylonia — Bydgoszcz Główna
  • Regional services Słupsk — Bydgoszcz Główna
  • Regional services Gdynia Chylonia — Pruszcz Gdański
  • Regional services Hel - Władysławowo - Reda - Gdynia Główna
  • Regional services Luzino — Gdynia Główna
  • Regional services Słupsk — Gdynia Główna
  • Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna services Gdynia Główna — Gdańsk Osowa — Gdańsk Port Lotniczy — Gdańsk Wrzeszcz
  • Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna services Kościerzyna — Gdańsk Osowa — Gdynia Główna
  • Pomorska Kolej Metropolitalna services Kościerzyna — Gdańsk Port Lotniczy — Gdańsk Wrzeszcz — Gdynia Główna
  • Szybka Kolej Miejska services '' Wejherowo - Reda - Rumia - Gdynia - Sopot - Gdansk''