Przemyśl Główny railway station

{{Short description | Railway station in Subcarpathia, Poland}}

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| name = Przemyśl Główny

| type = Railway Station

| style = PKP

| native_name_lang = pl

| image = File:Railway Station Building in Przemyśl (01).jpg

| caption = Przemyśl Główny station building in 2021

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| address = Plac Legionów 1
37-700 Przemyśl

| country = Poland

| platforms = 5

| tracks = 9

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|opened = 1860

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Przemyśl Główny (Polish for Przemyśl main station) is the chief railway station serving the city of Przemyśl, in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland.

File:Przemysl - dworzec kolejowy - Bahnhof. 1915 (71547178) (cropped).jpg

The station was opened in 1860 as part of the Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis and is located about {{convert|15|km|mi|abbr=on}} from the border with Ukraine at Medyka-Shehyni. It has standard gauge tracks for connections to the rest of Poland (PKP rail lines 91, 102 and 615), as well as broad gauge tracks for the connection with Ukraine (PKP rail line 92). Hence it serves as an important junction between the railway systems of Poland and Ukraine.

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine it has become an important transfer point for refugees leaving Ukraine, with about 500,000 refugees passing through the station in the first month of the war.{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60641217 | title=Ukraine: With placards and tears, Poles are greeting refugees like family|date=6 March 2022|publisher=BBC News}}{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/world/asia/ukraine-poland-border-przemysl.html| title=A Town on Ukraine's Edge, Determined to Escape Its Past|date=23 March 2022|work=The New York Times}}{{cite news | url=https://www.voanews.com/a/the-last-train-to-germany-a-free-lifeline-for-ukraine-refugees/6966193.html| title=The Last Train to Germany: A Free Lifeline for Ukraine's Refugees|date=22 February 2023|publisher=Voice of America}}

File:Przemyśl Główny railway station, view to E, Przemyśl, Poland.jpg|View east towards Medyka.

File:Przemyśl Główny railway station, view to W, Przemyśl, Poland.jpg|View west towards Rzeszów.

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