Elbasan railway station

Location
	Elbasan railway station Location within Albania

Elbasan railway station

Stacioni hekurudhor i Elbasanit
Elbasan railway station; Stacioni hekurudhor i Elbasanit
	The station in 2014
General information
Location	Elbasan; Elbasan County; Albania
Coordinates	41°06′18″N 20°04′29″E / 41.1050°N 20.0747°E
System	Hekurudha Shqiptare
Line	Rrogozhinë–Elbasan(–Pogradec);
History
Opened	21 December 1950
Location
Location
	Elbasan railway station Location within Albania

Elbasan railway station (Albanian: Stacioni hekurudhor i Elbasanit) is a railway station serving the city of Elbasan in Central Albania, the fourth most populous city of the Republic of Albania.

History

The station was opened in 1950. At opening, it was the terminus of an extension from Peqin. It remained the terminus until March 1974, when an extension to Përrenjas was completed.^[1]

The line beyond Elbasan, which runs through extremely sparsely populated regions of the country, was closed in 2012 and Elbasan again became a terminus.

Plans have existed since the late 2000s to build a new line to Elbasan from the capital Tirana to allow more direct movement between the two cities and replace the circuitous route which currently exists.