The station with its clock tower at the corner of Marszałkowska Street, with crowds and trams
The cross-city railway cutting dug through the station site, with the remaining clock-tower building behind
The burned-out Main Station after the siege of Warsaw
Trams at the Marszałkowska / Aleje Jerozolimskie crossing; behind, the cleared station site and the Palace of Culture under construction
The crossing in the 1960s with the Universal office building and the Rotunda
The Patelnia square at the entrance to Centrum metro station at night
Patelnia with the metro entrances and the Palace of Culture and Science behind
The Warsaw–Vienna Railway Station, the city's first, opened in 1845 at the corner of Marszałkowska Street and Aleje Jerozolimskie, and from 1919 served as the Main Station. Most of the building was demolished in the 1930s during construction of the cross-city railway tunnel, and the remainder burned in September 1939; the ruins of the clock tower were blown up in 1947. The site became part of the square around the Palace of Culture and Science, and since 1998 the sunken 'Patelnia' square has formed the entrance to Centrum metro station.