What's in a Prague street name

U krčského nádraží was built in 1925.

We spoke briefly about the present and future of Praha-Krč Station (nádraží) on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/08/15/prague-4-day-420-pred-nadrazim/. Now it’s time to talk about its past.

Back in 1882, Modřany (south of Krč, in Prague 12; discussed on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/09/29/prague-4-day-185-modranska/) was known for its sugar factory.

Which made a train connection to Prague – or, at least, to Nusle, which wasn’t yet within the city limits (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/24/prague-4-day-44-k-podjezdu/) – a sensible idea.

As Krč was on the route, a station was opened here too, also in 1882.

However, the station was located elsewhere at this point, roughly where there is now an underpass. This will explain why it’s easy to access the train from Před nádražím, but less obvious (or near) from this street, which is said to be literally by it.

Here are some staff standing in front of the original station at some point before World War One.

In 1964, the station was knocked down as part of the completion of the Prague railway junction (mentioned, or part of it, on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/01/23/prague-4-day-288-branicky-most/).

A new station opened in the same year, located centrally in Dolní Krč (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/07/18/prague-4-day-406-dolnokrcska/). However, the construction of what is now the country’s busiest road (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/08/17/prague-4-day-422-jizni-spojka/) made the station suddenly feel somewhat peripheral.

Here are some pics of how it looks now (complete with not terribly varied list of departures), which probably isn’t how it will look for much longer.