Praha-Holešovice railway station is a railway station located in Holešovice

Holešovice

Holešovice is a suburb in the north of Prague situated on a meander of the river Vltava, which makes up the main part of the district Prague 7...

, in the north of Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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. Opened in 1985, it was originally used as a terminus for international fast trains coming from the east. Nowadays these trains terminate at the more central hub, Praha hlavní nádraží

Praha hlavní nádraží

Praha hlavní nádraží is the largest and most important railway station in Prague in the Czech Republic. It was originally opened in 1871 and named Franz Joseph I after Franz Joseph I of Austria. During the First Republic and from 1945 to 1953 the station was called Wilson station after former...

, however, international and interregional trains going north from hlavní nádraží towards Berlin

Berlin

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 still stop here. The station is connected to the Prague Metro's C line

Line C (Prague Metro)

Line C is a line on the Prague Metro. It crosses the right-bank half of the city center in the north-south directions and turns to the east at both ends of the line. It is the system's oldest and most used line, being opened in 1974 and transporting roughly 26,900 persons per hour in the peak. The...

 by the metro station of the same name, and also to the Prague tram system

Prague Tram System

The Prague tram system is the largest tram system in the Czech Republic, consisting of 140 kilometres of track, over 900 tram cars, and 33 lines with a total route length of 540 km. It is operated by Dopravní podnik hlavního města Prahy a.s., a company owned by the City of Prague. The system...

 by numerous lines.