<p>140 years ago, one of the most beautiful train stations in Europe opened.</p>

Prague - One of the most beautiful train stations in Central Europe was opened 140 years ago, on May 10, 1875, in Prague Těšnov. This architectural gem, whose central building was adorned with a Roman triumphal arch with Corinthian columns and an allegorical sculpture, can now only be admired in photographs. The Neo-Renaissance building was demolished by the communist regime in 1985 due to the construction of a road highway.
    The Těšnov station was built on the border of New Town and Karlín from 1872 to 1875 and was the work of the Austrian Northwestern Railway (ÖNWB), which started building a new long-distance connection from Vienna to Berlin in the early 1870s. However, the new line bypassed Prague by about 30 kilometers to the north, so to ease domestic discontent over the neglect of Prague, the company constructed a branch line.
    The station, designed by Professor Karel Schlimp from the Vienna University of Technology, a native of Velenice near Žatec, bore the name Northwest for over 40 years, after the company that built it. After 1919, it was named after the French historian and Slavophile Ernest Denis, until the Nazis renamed it Moldau Bahnhof (Vltava Station). After the war, the name Denisovo briefly returned, and then the communists renamed it Těšnov.
    Railway operations at the station were terminated on July 1, 1972, and although the building was listed as a monument in 1978, it was ultimately demolished in March 1985.