The following are examples of stations from around the world where "Central Station" is part of their name in English or can be translated as such from their native language.
Europe Austria •
Wien Hauptbahnhof •
Graz Hauptbahnhof •
Linz Hauptbahnhof •
Salzburg Hauptbahnhof •
Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof •
St. Pölten Hauptbahnhof •
Wels Hauptbahnhof •
Wörgl Hauptbahnhof •
Leoben Hauptbahnhof Belarus •
Brest Central Station (Brest-Centralny, Брест-Центральный)
Belgium Three stations in Belgium are named "-Central" (Dutch
Centraal). •
Antwerp Central Station (
Antwerpen-Centraal) •
Brussels Central Station (
Bruxelles-Central / Brussel-Centraal) - not to be confused with the city's main international station,
Brussels Midi (meaning "Brussels south"; the French word "Midi" is generally used as the station's name in English). •
Verviers-Central railway station (
Verviers-Central)
Bulgaria There are three stations with "central" in their names: •
Central Railway Station, Sofia (Централна гара София) •
Central Railway Station, Plovdiv (Централна гара Пловдив) •
Ruse Central railway station (Централна гара Русе)
Czech Republic The following stations are named "hlavní nádraží" (English: 'main station', abbreviated
hl.n.): •
Brno hlavní nádraží (
Brno) •
Česká Lípa hlavní nádraží (
Česká Lípa) •
Děčín hlavní nádraží (
Děčín) •
Hradec Králové hlavní nádraží (
Hradec Králové) •
Karviná hlavní nádraží (
Karviná) •
Kutná Hora hlavní nádraží (
Kutná Hora) •
Mladá Boleslav hlavní nádraží (
Mladá Boleslav) •
Nymburk hlavní nádraží (
Nymburk) •
Olomouc hlavní nádraží (
Olomouc) •
Ostrava hlavní nádraží (
Ostrava) •
Pardubice hlavní nádraží (
Pardubice) •
Plzeň hlavní nádraží (
Plzeň) •
Praha hlavní nádraží (
Prague)
Hlavní nádraží – the corresponding
metro station in Prague •
Prostějov hlavní nádraží (
Prostějov) •
Trutnov hlavní nádraží (
Trutnov) •
Ústí nad Labem hlavní nádraží (
Ústí nad Labem) The following stations are named "střed" or "centrum", indicating their central location between other stations serving the town: •
Brumov střed (
Brumov) •
Louny střed (
Louny) •
Mikulášovice střed (
Mikulášovice) •
Ostrava střed(
Ostrava) •
Pardubice centrum, (Pardubice) •
Smržovka střed (
Smržovka) •
Trutnov střed (
Trutnov) •
Zlín střed (
Zlín) In addition to the above,
Praha Masarykovo nádraží was named "Praha střed" from 1953 until 1990.
Denmark Two Danish stations, as follows, have names often translated as "Central". •
Aarhus Central Station – the busiest Danish station outside the
Copenhagen area •
Copenhagen Central Station – the largest station in Denmark Both stations bear the title of
Hovedbanegård in Danish, which literally translated means main-(rail)way-yard, but which actually refers to the infrastructure complexity, size and importance. A station of lesser importance is called a
banegård. However a city can have several
banegårde as well as a
hovedbanegård, and several cities and towns that have a
banegård such as
Aalborg do not have a
hovedbanegård. Thus, Copenhagen Central Station is not the most central in Copenhagen, nor is it the most central that serves a broad range of routes, that would be
Nørreport Station, which has been translated into English as Nørreport Metro Station. Copenhagen Central Station is however the most important, with its many more platforms and historic facilities (that has now been moved to other locations, in response to changed need from modern locomotives, wagons and coaches), and despite serving almost the same amount of regional and intercity trains as Nørreport, it allows for longer stops and with much more room for passengers to traverse the station along serving international trains.
Finland Two Finnish stations can be translated to central: •
Helsinki Central railway station (
Finnish: Helsingin päärautatieasema,
Swedish: Helsingfors centralstation) •
Turku Central railway station (
Finnish: Turun päärautatieasema,
Swedish: Åbo centralstation)
France •
Strasbourg-Ville station,
Strasbourg •
Marseille-Saint-Charles station,
Marseille •
Nantes station,
Nantes •
Nice-Ville station,
Nice Germany sign giving directions in three languages to
Koblenz Hauptbahnhof. The German word for "central station" is
Hauptbahnhof (literally "main railway station"); historically
Centralbahnhof and
Zentralbahnhof were also used. Geographically central stations may be named
Mitte or
Stadtmitte ("city centre"), e.g.
Koblenz Stadtmitte station. In most German cities with more than one
passenger station, the principal station is usually the
Hauptbahnhof; some German sources translate this as "central station" although stations named Hauptbahnhof may not be centrally located. While using Hauptbahnhof in its
journey planner and passenger information, in English-language publications Deutsche Bahn uses variously Hauptbahnhof, Main The following stations historically bore the name
Centralbahnhof or
Zentralbahnhof as part of their proper name (See
Centralbahnhof): •
Chemnitz Hauptbahnhof •
Köln Hauptbahnhof •
Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof •
Hamburg Dammtor station: documents from around the time of the opening of the station refer to Centralbahnhof. or Zentral-Bahnhof. •
Ingolstadt Hauptbahnhof •
Magdeburg Hauptbahnhof •
Mainz Hauptbahnhof •
München Hauptbahnhof until 1 May 1904. •
Oldenburg Hauptbahnhof (called
Centralbahnhof Oldenburg from 1879 to 1911) •
Osnabrück Hauptbahnhof • Stuttgart Zentralbahnhof (or
Centralbahnhof) was a centrally located station on the Zentralbahn (replaced by
Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof, which opened on a new site east of the centre in 1922).
Italy •
Agrigento Centrale railway station •
Bari Centrale railway station •
Bari Centrale railway station (FAL) •
Barletta Centrale railway station (FNB) •
Bologna Centrale railway station •
Caltanissetta Centrale railway station •
Catania Centrale railway station •
Gorizia Centrale railway station •
La Spezia Centrale railway station •
Lamezia Terme Centrale railway station •
Livorno Centrale railway station •
Messina Centrale railway station •
Milano Centrale railway station •
Napoli Centrale railway station •
Nardò Centrale railway station •
Palermo Centrale railway station •
Pescara Centrale railway station •
Pisa Centrale railway station •
Porto Empedocle Centrale railway station •
Potenza Centrale railway station •
Prato Centrale railway station •
Reggio Calabria Centrale railway station •
Tarvisio Centrale railway station - now closed •
Torre Annunziata Centrale railway station •
Trieste Centrale railway station •
Treviglio railway station, also known as
Treviglio Centrale •
Treviso Centrale railway station Netherlands In the Netherlands, a
centraal station (abbreviated CS), in its original sense, was a railway station served by several railway companies; so it had the same meaning as a
union station in the USA. Since the various private railways were merged in the early 20th century into a national railway, the term came to mean, in everyday language, the main railway station of a city. Since the 2000s, the rule is that a city's principal station may be called "Centraal" if it has more than a certain number of passengers per day (currently 40.000). This meant that Almere Centraal had to be demoted to "Almere Centrum"; however, Leiden was renamed "Leiden Centraal". Additionally, stations with international high-speed trains may be given the name Centraal; this applies to Arnhem. Breda was intended to receive the epithet after renovation in 2016, but since high speed services do not yet call there, it is still called Breda. Non-railway signage, such as on buses or roads, sometimes indicates Centraal or CS even when a city's main railway station is not actually so named. Eight stations have the word
Centraal: •
Amsterdam Centraal •
Den Haag Centraal •
Leiden Centraal •
Rotterdam Centraal •
Utrecht Centraal •
Arnhem Centraal •
Eindhoven Centraal •
Amersfoort Centraal There are also stations with the word
Centrum, which indicates the station is in the city centre: •
Almere Centrum •
Barneveld Centrum •
Ede Centrum •
Kerkrade Centrum •
Lelystad Centrum •
Schiedam Centrum •
Veenendaal Centrum •
Vlaardingen Centrum Norway •
Oslo Central Station (
Oslo Sentralstasjon) •
Trondheim Central Station (
Trondheim Sentralstasjon)
Poland The designation "main station" (
Dworzec główny, abbreviated to " Gł.") is used in many Polish cities to indicate the most important passenger or goods station, for instance
Szczecin Główny. However, there is an exception:
Warszawa Centralna railway station is the principal station in
Warsaw, but
Warszawa Główna railway station (reopened in March 2021) is the terminus for several train services. The following stations are named "main station" (dworzec główny): The adjective "main" is thus not used only for stations in a few capitals of voivodeships, including:
Białystok,
Gorzów Wielkopolski,
Katowice and
Łódź.
Sweden In Sweden the term "central station" (
Centralstation, abbreviated to
Central or
C) is used to indicate the primary station in towns and cities with more than one railway station. Many are termini for one or more lines. However, the term can also occur in a broader sense, even being used for the only railway station in a town. In some cases, this is because other stations have closed; but in others the station is called "central" even though there has only ever been one. In these cases, the term "central" was used to highlight the level of service provided, due to the station's importance in the network, particularly at important
railway junctions.
Switzerland Basel SBB railway station was originally known as the
Centralbahnhof or, in English, Basle Central Station and is still sometimes referred to today as the
Centralbahnhof or Basel/Basle Central Station. The name of
Zürich Hauptbahnhof, often shortened to Zürich HB or just HB, literally translated into English, is
Zurich Main Station, but, as indicated in
the Germany section above, some German sources translate
Hauptbahnhof as "central station".
Turkey •
Adana railway station •
Ankara railway station •
Eskişehir railway station •
Gaziantep railway station •
Kars railway station •
Kayseri railway station •
Mersin railway station United Kingdom Many railway stations in
Britain that use 'Central' are not principal stations, and are called Central to distinguish them from other stations with different names, or for prestige. In some cases, a station originally owned by the
Great Central Railway in locations served by more than one station was called
Central.
Town also appears: for example distinguishes it from station. One of the few principal stations in Britain that is called 'Central' and truly is in the centre of the city it serves is
Glasgow Central. Though Glasgow was once served by four
principal terminus stations, all within the city centre, only one was called 'Central'. With a few exceptions such as the Argyle line, Glasgow Central serves all stations south of the city while
Glasgow Queen Street is the principal station for all services north of the city. Likewise,
Cardiff Central is located in the
city centre and is the mainline hub of the
South Wales rail network, which includes 19 other stations in Cardiff itself, including another principal city centre station,
Cardiff Queen Street. Not all the stations in the following list still exist. •
Acton Central railway station •
Belfast Grand Central station •
Birkenhead Central railway station •
Brackley Central railway station •
Burnley Central railway station •
Cardiff Central railway station •
Central railway station (London) •
Central Croydon railway station •
Chesterfield Central railway station •
Coatbridge Central railway station •
Dumbarton Central railway station •
Exeter Central railway station •
Finchley Central tube station •
Folkestone Central railway station •
Gainsborough Central railway station •
Glasgow Central railway station •
Greenock Central railway station •
Hackney Central railway station •
Hamilton Central railway station •
Helensburgh Central railway station •
Hendon Central tube station •
Hounslow Central tube station •
Hyde Central railway station •
Kirkby-in-Ashfield Central railway station •
Leicester Central railway station •
Lincoln Central railway station •
Liverpool Central railway station •
Loughborough Central railway station •
Manchester Central railway station •
Mansfield Central railway station •
Milton Keynes Central railway station •
New Mills Central railway station •
Newcastle Central railway station and associated
Central Station Metro station •
Redcar Central railway station •
Rotherham Central railway station •
Rugby Central railway station •
St Helens Central railway station •
St Helens Central (GCR) railway station •
Salford Central railway station •
Scarborough Central railway station •
Southampton Central railway station •
Southend Central railway station •
Staveley Central railway station •
Sutton-in-Ashfield Central railway station •
Telford Central railway station •
Tuxford Central railway station •
Walthamstow Central station •
Warrington Central railway station •
Wembley Central station •
Windsor & Eton Central railway station •
Wrexham Central railway station Central America Cuba •
Central Railway Station, Havana, commuter and national rail station in
Havana North America Canada •
Central station (Edmonton), in
Edmonton •
Montreal Central Station, in
Montreal •
Guelph Central Station, an intermodal (rail/bus) station in
Guelph United States In the United States, several "Central" stations were built by railways called "Central", the best known example being Grand Central Station in
New York City, which is so named because it was built by the
New York Central Railroad. This contrasts with a
union station, which, in the past, served more than one
railway company (the equivalent term in
Europe is a
joint station). The government-funded
Amtrak took over the operation of all intercity passenger rail in the 1970s and 1980s. •
Buffalo Central Terminal, in
Buffalo, New York •
Central Station,
Chicago •
Grand Central Station, Chicago •
Central (CTA Green Line), Chicago, Illinois •
Central (CTA Purple Line),
Evanston, Illinois •
Central Station (JTA Skyway),
Jacksonville,
Florida •
Central Station (Memphis),
Memphis,
Tennessee •
MiamiCentral,
Miami,
Florida •
Grand Central Terminal,
New York City •
Great Central Station, Chicago
South America Argentina •
Estación Central in
Buenos Aires,
Argentina operated from 1872 to 1897.
Brazil Rio de Janeiro. In Brazil, "Central Station" is called as "Estação Central" and can be a place that integrates bus or train. •
Central do Brasil, in
Rio de Janeiro •
Estação da Luz, in
São Paulo •
Central station (Federal District Metro) Chile • Estación Alameda in
Santiago,
Chile is known unofficially as
Estación Central Asia Azerbaijan •
Baku railway station •
Sumgait railway station Bangladesh •
Kamalapur Railway Station Hong Kong •
Central and
Hong Kong stations, a main
interchange station of the
MTR rapid transit system (located in
Central; served by the
Airport Express,
Island line,
Tsuen Wan line and
Tung Chung line.)
India •
Kanpur Central (CNB), in
Kanpur,
Uttar Pradesh •
Mangalore Central (MAQ) in
Mangalore,
Karnataka •
Mumbai Central (MMCT), in
Mumbai,
Maharashtra •
Trivandrum Central (TVC), in
Trivandrum,
Kerala •
MGR Chennai Central (MAS), in
Chennai,
Tamil Nadu Indonesia •
Manggarai Central Station (MRI) in Tebet, South Jakarta
Israel •
Be'er Sheva Center railway station,
Be'er Sheva •
Haifa Center HaShmona railway station,
Haifa •
Modi'in Central railway station,
Modi'in •
Tel Aviv Savidor Central railway station,
Tel Aviv •
Jerusalem–Yitzhak Navon railway station,
Jerusalem Japan •
Kagoshima-Chūō Station in
Kagoshima, formerly Nishi-Kagoshima Station
Malaysia Sentral is the
Malay spelling for the
English word
central. •
Kuala Lumpur Sentral station, in Kuala Lumpur
South Korea In South Korea, major railway stations of the city don't usually have additional names besides the name of the respective city, like these examples below. •
Seoul Station in
Seoul •
Busan Station in
Busan However, some stations do have a term
중앙(Jungang)(literally. Central) in their names to differentiate the original station. These stations are usually located in closer locations to the city centre. •
Changwon Jungang station in
Changwon •
Dongducheon Jungang station in
Dongducheon •
Samseong Jungang station in
Samseong-dong, Seoul •
Jung-ang station (Uijeongbu) in
Uijeongbu Also, there are
Jungang metro stations which are named after the neighborhood name,
Jungang-dong. •
Jungang station (Ansan) •
Jungang station (Busan Metro) Taiwan •
Taipei Main Station in
Taipei City •
Taichung railway station in
Taichung City •
Kaohsiung Main Station in
Kaohsiung City Thailand •
Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal, also known as Bang Sue Grand Station, is the current central station of Bangkok, Thailand •
Hua Lamphong railway station is the former central station of Bangkok until 19 January 2023 •
Hat Yai Junction railway station is the central station of Hat Yai •
Chachoengsao Junction railway station is the central station of Chachoengsao
Africa South Africa •
Cape Town railway station,
Cape Town •
Bloemfontein railway station,
Bloemfontein •
Durban railway station,
Durban •
Johannesburg Park station,
Johannesburg •
Kimberley railway station,
Kimberley •
Mafikeng railway station,
Rustenburg •
Pietermaritzburg railway station,
Pietermaritzburg •
Pretoria railway station,
Pretoria Oceania Australia •
Central railway station,
Brisbane •
Melbourne Central railway station, named after
Melbourne Central Shopping Centre,
Melbourne •
Central railway station, Sydney, also known as Sydney Terminal,
Sydney •
Gawler Central railway station,
Adelaide •
Wynnum Central railway station, Brisbane •
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