This station was built in 1862, when this place was well out of Prague. With time it became part of the capital city and Praha-Radotin is now the last train station in the metropolitan area of Prague for the trains heading to Beroun. It's one of the most busy stations in the country. In 2019 it was the 5th,m with 2,2 million passengers.
The following text is a Google Translate version of the original Czech article in Wikipedia (note that some parts of the text refer to the pre-renovation station, and there is also an interesting gallery of images of the old station):
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"Praha-Radotín is a railway station in the Prague - Radotín district of Prague at Vrážská 43/5. It is located on the Prague–Pilsen railway line . At the eastern end, the line from Branický Most enters the station . The outer tracks at the eastern end are to Branický Most and the middle tracks are to Smíchov . Only passenger trains stop here. Some booster trains on weekdays terminate here. The station is served by the Prague Esko system line – line S7 . It is the last station in Prague on the line to Beroun . In 2019, over 2.2 million passengers used the station to board or disembark, making it the fifth busiest railway station in Prague.
The station is connected to the Heidelberg Materials cement plant and companies in the industrial area on the northeastern edge of Radotín, which is why there is also a large turnover of freight trains.
History
The station was built in 1862, during the construction of the Czech Western Railway in the open countryside near the then small village of Radotín . The station was conceived as a passenger station with future use also for freight transport. Thanks to its advantageous location in a sparsely built-up area, a number of businesses and factories were built in the vicinity of the station during the following decades until the First Republic. These usually either no longer exist today ( the sugar factory , which was replaced by apartment buildings and a park during the First Republic, the cement factory , on whose site there is a housing estate, the Marmorea marble factory, which gave way to housing construction in the late 1990s) or were adapted for other purposes ( the Vindyšova továrna for sports equipment, today a bicycle and ski shop and restaurant, the Janka air conditioning production, today a Billa supermarket and the headquarters of several smaller companies). Industrial production, on the other hand, was preserved in the Ferrovia factory , which was located right next to the railway yard and originally produced narrow-gauge trains and is now the headquarters of the Kovoklima Gürtler company. In the past, sidings led from the station to all of the aforementioned industrial enterprises, of which only a part of the siding leading to the Ferrovia company premises has survived to the present day, but it is no longer used in the 21st century.
The station building itself was slightly rebuilt several times, for example in 1897. In 1923, a third-class waiting room was added, later rebuilt into today's station restaurant. In the early 1940s, the construction of a new, large functionalist check-in building according to the design of architect Josef Danda was considered . However, this building was not built in the end; in 1947, only a one-story extension with facilities and a transport office was added to the historical part.
Due to the development of Radotín, the railway station building became essentially part of the wider city centre in the first half of the 20th century. Even before the First World War, urban-type buildings began to appear in front of the railway station; in the early 1920s, the adjacent sugar factory was also closed and gradually replaced by a park and a development of family and apartment buildings.
After the integration of the railway into the city's public transport in the early 1990s, the station's occupancy rate began to increase significantly. The poor condition of the platforms and, above all, the absence of barrier-free access were the subject of criticism from the public and the local government. After long negotiations, an extensive reconstruction was started in 2019 and completed in 2023, which included the complete optimization of the line from Smíchov to Radotín.
After its completion, the Radotín railway station will have three barrier-free platforms, two barrier-free underpasses, a renovated station building, a modern information system and a new check-in hall with ticket offices, toilets and two non-residential premises. As part of the reconstruction, the platforms were moved to the southwest. After the reconstruction, the original historic station building was no longer used for rail transport. Currently (2024) there are plans to reconstruct it and subsequently use it by the Prague 16 municipal district office as the headquarters of the municipal police.
Services
The barrier-free check-in hall contains a cash desk, waiting room and toilets. In the adjoining commercial area there is a café with seating and a small summer terrace.
In the past, a traditional station restaurant operated in the old station building, which ceased operations during the station's reconstruction in 2019-2023. Before the station was rebuilt, a newsagent, bakery and ice cream stand also operated."