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Zakopane railway station is a railway station in Zakopane (Lesser Poland), Poland and the terminus of PKP rail line 99. The station was opened in 1899 and electrified in 1975. It is also the highest situated staffed railway station in Poland at 835 metres above sea level.
As of 2022, it is served by PKP Intercity (EIP, InterCity, and TLK services). This station is located about 2 km East of the town's principal railway station ( Sucha Beskidzka railway station ). This station is named after the nearby Castle of Sucha Beskidzka , as the word Zamek means castle.
The station is served by the following services: Express Intercity services (EIC) Warsaw - Kraków - Zakopane [1] Intercity services (IC) Warsaw - Kraków - Zakopane [2] ...
The Polish railways network consists of around 18,807 kilometres (11,686 mi) of track as of 2023, [2]: 7 of which 12,149 km (7,549 mi) is electrified. [2]: 13 The national electrification system runs at 3 kV DC. Poland is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC), its UIC Country Code is 51.
From December 2017 there are two 200 km/h sections, 136 km long in total [1] [2] and from December 2020, speed 200 km/h was introduced on 45% of the Warsaw–Gdańsk railway. [3] Till 14 December 2024, all high-speed services operated by PKP in Poland were branded as Express Intercity Premium (EIP).
Beyond Łobzów, the line uses the former track no. 1 of the Kraków Mydlniki–Kraków Bieżanów railway (the so-called small orbital line), which runs over a new viaduct above Armii Krajowej Street (before which the Kraków Bronowice railway station is located), while track no. 2 runs along the former ramp.
The station is served by the following services: Express Intercity services (EIC) Warsaw - Kraków - Zakopane [1] Intercity services (IC) Warsaw - Kraków - Zakopane [2] ...
On 2 April 1813 Jasna Góra was seized by the Russians (see War of the Sixth Coalition), after a two-week siege, [4] and the fortifications were razed that year. [ 9 ] In 1821, the government of Congress Poland carried out a census, according to which the population of New Częstochowa was 1,036, while the population of Old Częstochowa was 2,758.