Johannesburg Park Station

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Johannesburg Park Station is the main station of Johannesburg in South Africa. The largest train station in Africa is located between the Johannesburg city center, Braamfontein and is surrounded by the streets Rissik Street, Wolmarans Street, Wanderers Street and North Street. Operators of the station is the PRASA.

The original station parking station (then Park stop) in 1895 commissioned by the South African government and is designed by the Dutch architect Jacob Klinkhammer. The steel platform roofing was made 1896-1897 in Rotterdam. Since 1995 she is at the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Newtown.

In 1930, a new station building by architect Gordon Leith was built. Between 1948 and 1965, the entire station was rebuilt and received its present appearance. With the local trains of Metrorail Gauteng has connections to Carletonville, Randfontein and Soweto in the west, and Springs, Nigel and Daveyton in the east. Pretoria is the northern goal. To the south you have connection after Vereeniging. In addition, here is the southern terminus of the Gautrain.

In the long-distance transport can be reached by Shosholoza Meyl Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, East London, Bloemfontein, Komatipoort ( border station to Mozambique ) and Musina ( border station to Zimbabwe ).

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