Ramses Station
Ramses Railway Station (Arabic: محطة رمسيس, romanized: Maḥaṭṭat Ramsīs), also called Misr Station (Arabic: محطة مصر, romanized: Maḥaṭṭat Miṣr), is the main railway station of Cairo, Egypt. The name is derived from the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II, whose statue was erected by Nasser on the square there in 1955.
Cairo Ramses Station | |
|---|---|
| Egyptian Railways general passenger rail station | |
Inside the station | |
| General information | |
| Location | Ramses Square, Cairo Egypt |
| Owned by | Egyptian National Railways |
| Line(s) | Cairo - Alexandria Alexandria - Aswan |
| Connections | Cairo Metro (Lines 1 and 2) Cairo Tram Cairo Transport Authority bus Microbus |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | At-grade |
| History | |
| Opened | 1856 |
| Rebuilt | 1892 |
| Previous names | Misr Station |
| Passengers | |
| 300,000 daily | |
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