Brest-Tsentralny is the main railway station of Brest, Belarus.
History The first building of the Brest station was built in 1886, and opened on 28 May in the presence of Emperor Alexander III.
It was built in the form of "medieval castle" with four water towers. The station was equipped with water heating. In the halls for passengers of the 1st and 2nd classes have parquet floors, 3rd class — plank, utility room — asphalt. Soon the station became the first in Russian Railways, have electric lighting — 160 light bulbs of 20 candles appeared in the halls and on platforms and 12 lights on 50 of candles lit up the station square.
In 1915, during the First world war, the station building was destroyed by the retreating Russian troops. The Polish authorities have constructed a new building. Visited Brest in 1949, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, has contributed to the adoption of the decision on reconstruction of the station, which was held in 1953-1957.Railway stations of USSR. Справочник. — М.: Транспорт, 1981
International trains and destinations Because of the break-of-gauge at Brest, where Russian broad gauge railway track meets European standard gauge, all passenger trains travelling to or from Poland have their bogies replaced here to continue their journey and freight is transloaded from cars of one gauge to cars of another.
Train number Train name Destination Operated by 003Б/004Б Minsk bel: Мінск, rus: Минск Moscow (Belorussky) Belarusian Railways 007М/008Б 009Щ/010Щ Polonez rus: Полонез Warsaw (Zachodnia) Moscow (Belorussky) Russian Railways 013М/014М Strizh rus: Стриж Berlin (HBF) Moscow (Belorussky) 017Б/018Б Nice Moscow (Belorussky) 021Е/022Г Vltava rus: Влтава Prague (Hlavní) Moscow (Belorussky) 023Й/024Й Paris (Paris-Est) Moscow (Belorussky) 027Б/028Б Bug bel, rus: Буг Moscow (Belorussky) Belarusian Railways 051Б/052Б Zvezda bel: Зорка, rus: Звезда Saint Petersburg (Vitebsky) 065Б/066Б Murmansk 067Б/068Б Saratov 095Б/096Б Moscow (Belorussky) 103Н/104Б Novosibirsk 119Б/120Б Terespol 121Б/122Б 123Б/124Б IC 125/IC 126 Mickiewicz Warsaw (Zachodnia) Polish State Railways IC 127/IC 128 Skaryna EC 130/EC 131 Báthory Budapest (Nyugati) Hungarian State Railways Polish State Railways 131Б/132Б Moscow (Belorussky) Belarusian Railways 133Я/134Ф Arkhangelsk 221Б/222Б Moscow (Belorussky) 317Б/318Б Karaganda 327Б/328Б Kazan (Main) 675Ф/676Ф Moscow (Belorussky)
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