Railway Station Building

The design of the current building of the Railway Station was made by Wacław Tomaszewski, the style combining the trends of modernism with elements of socialist realism.

The building stands partly on the foundations and basements (which are partly accessible) of the railway station from the 1920s which burnt down at the end of the war in 1945. The author of the project was an architect with significant achievements – known mainly for the implementation of public buildings in the 1920s and 1930s in Gdynia. The project of the new station in Gdynia was implemented successively in stages in the period 1950-1955. The first part – the main hall and the right wing, was handed over in mid-1954, and the left wing – a year later on the day of the socialist national holiday – on 22 July.

An important element of the railway station complex was the suburban station built in the period 1956-1959, designed by Lech Zalewski, a close associate of Wacław Tomaszewski. In the original project, ticket offices, a waiting room, and a common room for young people were planned on the ground floor, while a cinema room and a café were planned on the first floor. In the end, the entire upper floor was occupied by the largest café in Gdynia under the prestigious "ORBIS" sign.

The station complex was entered into the register of monuments in 2008 because it was at risk of demolition. Already in the new millennium, the station underwent a thorough renovation under the supervision of the municipal and provincial conservator of monuments, along with leading historians of architecture and art, completed in the summer of 2012. Noteworthy are the elements of the interior decoration of the station, including decorative mosaics made of small ceramic tiles in the main and side halls, or the ceiling painting in the former restaurant room.