I thought that this photo at the transport museum was intriguing, it shows the railway line that ran through the central area of Bratislava until around thirty years ago. When looking at an overhead map the route is still clearly visible, although much of it has now been repurposed. Despite the investment pouring into the city, the main railway station (Bratislava hlavná stanica) is not in great shape. I didn’t get to visit it, as the route I wanted has been diverted away from it temporarily, but the last modernisation extension was in 1989 and that was meant to be temporary. Here we are decades later and there is no new central railway station actively being constructed, but it seems to be a key priority for the city authorities. I might have misunderstood, but it seems one of the options is to put the track underground similar to the route that they already had and then construct a new railway station at Filiálka. Whatever option they go for, it’s going to be years until the work is completed and so they might want to make progress a little quicker judging from what the local media is saying (as long as they don’t get the ‘experts’ from HS2 involved).