Prilep railway station
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Prilep
North Macedonia
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 Prilep railway station, August 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 8GVQ+J6 Prilep, Prilep North Macedonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°20′39″N 21°32′16″E / 41.344223°N 21.537863°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Makedonski Železnici | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Makedonski Železnici | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | at-grade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1891 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Prilep railway station (Железничка Станица Прилеп) is the railway station of Prilep in Pelagonia, North Macedonia.
The station opened in 1891, in what was then the Ottoman Empire at the completion of the first section of the Société du Chemin de Fer ottoman Salonique-Monastir, a branchline of the Chemins de fer Orientaux from Thessaloniki to Bitola. During this period North Macedonia and the southern Balkans were still under Ottoman rule and Bitola was known as Monastir. Later, the line to Prilep and Veles was built.[1] Bitola was annexed by Serbia on 18 October 1912 during the First Balkan War. On 17 October 1925 The Yugoslavian government purchased the Yugoslav sections of the former Salonica Monastir railway[2] and the railway became part of the Yugoslav Railways, with the remaining section south of Bitola seeded to the Hellenic State Railways. The line to Thessaloniki was closed to traffic in 1984.[1] In 2017 the station was upgraded,[3] the roof was replaced, and new thermal insulation installed, as well as with ramps and a newly refurbished booking hall.[4]
Services
The station is currently located on Branch D section of the Pan-European corridor X.
The station is served by trains to/from Skopje. There are no services to Thessaloniki.
