Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: hlavni nadrazi

In 2008, Hlavni Nadrazi was undergoing a long and thorough renovation, which was already several months old, and continues as I write this a year later. When I took this, the tracks under the trainshed were being rebuilt, and most of this work is done now, the project having shifted to the station building. In 2007, the trainshed still looked almost steam-era, today it looks almost modern, although many of the historic features, like the trainshed itself, have been retained.

This is one of the most spectacular art deco railway stations in the Czech Republic, even if it's not in mint condition (it is, actually, in fairly decent condition). This stained glass window (whether real or painted), depicting the old CSD logo, is my favorite part.

I look at Hradec Kralove Hlavni Nadrazi (the main train station, as Hlavni Nadrazi means main station in Czech), and I think of it as a great art deco building. Nevertheless, I'm no expert, so if it's really cubist or something please let me know. :-) In addition to being an important mainline station for the whole region, and for that matter for the Czech Republic, it's also a local landmark of sorts. The cantenary you see above, by the way, is not for trains or trams, but for trolleybuses, or unibuses as I've sometimes heard them called. In Czech, a trolleybus called a trolejbus.

Praha Hlavni Nadrazi, like most big city stations in the world, has a few switchers waiting at any given time to switch coaches, and Hlavni Nadrazi has the advantage of having an all-electric fleet. Most of these are Class 111s, but this one is a 110, which is a bit rarer. The bluish hue of this photo makes it look like it was bitterly cold, but in reality it wasn't so bad.

This was my first ever shoot at the north end of Praha Hlavni Nadrazi, and it was, for the most part a success, even if I had little light and even less film to do it with. This is a local railbus service departing for Roztoky U Prahy, unless I'm mistaken.