One thing I’ve done with my attempting to visit all of the metro stations in Warsaw is that I’ve started at the ends of the line, generally away from the most interesting areas in the city that the network crosses through. This meant that visiting Trocka was a little bit sub-optimal as there wasn’t a great deal of note to have a look at. So writing this is more for the sake of completion than surprising and delighting my two loyal blog readers.
It’s all residential, which is lovely, but there’s less of a story to tell. Although I’d note that this felt a safe area, I meandered around some of the tower blocks and it seemed a part of the city that it would be pleasant to live in. There’s a bus station here, although I’m not sure if that’s of enormous excitement to write about, but it’s visible in the above photo.
Tadeusz Korzon (1839-1918) was a Polish historian and he also took part in the January uprising that sought to free Poland from its Russian control. Sadly, he died a few months before the creation of the Second Polish Republic, so he didn’t live to see Poland become independent.
As an aside, Warsaw is rather good at putting benches nearly everywhere, something which must encourage people to walk if they know that there’s somewhere to stop. Back to the station, the city gave the contract to Italian firm Astaldi in March 2016 to build this extension and work started in April 2016 and it was completed in May 2019. The station opened on 15 September 2019 to the excited locals and the project was part financed by the European Union.
The Church of St. Mark the Evangelist.
Back to the station, which was designed with the intent of having clean, geometric forms and a feeling of space. The groundwater here was relatively high, which led to some considerable engineering challenges, including apparently diaphragm walls which were sunk up to 60 metres deep, but that will mean more to my civil engineer friend Liam than to me. For a while, this was the end of the line, but in September 2022, another three stations were added to extend the M2.
The decoration is plain, but functional.
The plan of the metro station.
And the next train to Bródno.
In terms of what is nearby, there is a large cemetery and some other historic structures of interest, but they’re all closer to another Metro stop. That’s also true of a nearby park, so I haven’t entirely neglected these, I’m just saving them up…..