Tirana Rail Station

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The Tirana Railway Station (Albanian Stacioni i Trenit Shkodër, short Stacioni i Trenit ) was a railway terminus in the Albanian capital Tirana and was located on the northern edge of downtown at the end of Bulevardi Zogu i Pare. The Tirana Railway Station was the terminus of the route Durrës -Tirana, the Albanian state of the railway Hekurudha Shqiptare (HSH ) is operated.

The station had only one central platform with two platform tracks. The roofed platform was slightly offset the reception building in front, in which there was the waiting room and ticket sales. Although he was the only station in the city of millions, wrong day only twelve trains because the Hekurudha Shqiptare had reduced the low supply in the last few years and has only a modest infrastructure. There were 2013 direct services to Durrës and once a day to Shkodra, Librazhd, Elbasan and Vlora.

The distance between Durrës and the capital was opened on 23 February 1949 and put into operation. It is the second oldest rail line in Albania.

On 2 September 2013, the Tirana station was closed for passenger and freight transport, as it is to be demolished to make room for a new boulevard that will lead over the station area to the north and make a completely new district created. In the northwestern district of Tirana Lapraka the new station will be built, which is planned as a multi-functional terminal for railway, tram and bus. Until his opening of the railway transport between Tirana and Vora remains set. Instead of the railroad to bring the passengers to the city center and from there into the outer neighborhoods to the west and east in the future a tram.