Praha Masarykovo nádraží (Prague Masaryk railway station) is a terminal railway station near Republic Square (náměstí Republiky) in the New Town area of

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. It was the first railway station in the city to serve

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s, and the second oldest

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in Prague (the first is Praha-Dejvice, formerly Bruska on the Lány Horse-drawn Railway). The station was designed by Antonín Jüngling and came into service in 1845. During the Prague uprising against German occupation in 1945, the station was captured by the

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on 8 May and 53 surrendered resistance fighters and noncombatants were massacred. Nowadays the station only serves

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and suburban trains, because the larger

Praha hlavní nádraží Praha hlavní nádraží is the largest railway station in Prague, Czech Republic. It opened in 1871 as Franz Josef Station, after Franz Joseph I of Austria. During the First Republic and from 1945 to 1948 the station was called Wilson Stati ...

does not have enough capacity. In 2010 it served 48,838 trains and 9.6 million passengers.Ročenka dopravy Praha 2010
The station is currently being reconstructed, and will become the terminus of the planned railway connection with

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Names

Since it opened in 1845, Masaryk Railway Station has had the following names: * 1845–1862 ''Praha'' (german: Prag) - "Prague" * 1862–1919 ''Praha státní nádraží'' (german: Prag Staatsbahnhof) - "Prague State Station" * 1919–1940 ''Praha Masarykovo nádraží'' (german: Prag Masarykbahnhof) - Prague Masaryk Station * 1940–1945 ''Praha Hybernské nádraží'' (german: Prag Hibernerbahnhof) - Prague Hibernia Station, the station is on Hybernská street * 1945–1952 ''Praha Masarykovo nádraží'' * 1953–1990 ''Praha střed'' - Prague Central * March 1990– ''Praha Masarykovo nádraží'' For much of its existence, the station has been named after the founder of

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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš () is a Czech and Slovak given name, equivalent to the name Thomas. It may refer to: * Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), first President of Czechoslovakia * Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), Czech footwear entrepreneur * Tomáš Berdyc ...

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