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Praha-Vyšehrad (until 1942: Vyšehrad) is a former passenger station on the Prague railway connecting Praha hlavní nádraží and Praha-Smíchov. It is located in the Prague district of Vyšehrad near the border with Prague Neustadt at the address Svobodova 86/2. Operationally, the station is still used today as an alternative (výhybna). The ruined buildings have been under state protection since 2001 as a cultural monument.

History
The Vyšehrad railway station has existed since the opening of the Prague Railway on 15. August 1872. In its original state, there were at least three tracks that could be reached at ground level, enabling train crossings on the original single-track route. The recording building was a simple plaster building with added signal box. At first, only freight trains drove over the Prague connecting railway, travel traffic was started in 1888. Around 1900 the line was expanded in two tracks. Since 1883, Vyšehrad is a district of Prague. A renaming of the station was not initially associated with this.

In 1900, a total of eight pairs of passenger trains from the Prague–Pilsen–Furth connection stopped in the forest in Vyšehrad. In 1912 it was already 14, 1937 and 1959 it was 16. Express trains never stopped in Vyšehrad (as in the neighboring Královské Vinohrady/Royal Vineyards) as planned.

In 1904, the K.K. State Railways built a new, representative recording building. Its author is no longer known today. It was probably the Prague architect Antonín Balšánek. At the end of the 1920s, the ČSD equipped the station with electric catenary systems. The electric train service – which was initially limited to the Prague node – was launched on 15 May. May 1928.

During the time of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the only change in the name of the company occurred in 1942. Instead of Vyšehrad was now Praha-Vyšehrad. The official German name was Wischehrad since 1939 and Prague-Wischehrad from 1942 to 1945.

In 1948, a passenger train in the Vinohradský tunel collided with a shunting department, lamenting some human lives. In 1964, there was an accident at the station in which a train derailed and drove into the garden of the stonemason workshop.

In 1960, travel traffic at Vyšehrad station was discontinued in favour of urban transport and the operating station was graduated to a diversion point (výhybna) with a branch point (odbočka).

In the 1980s, the recording building was renovated. Some of the architectural elements on the facade were also renewed. However, it came after a short time to new damage by penetrating water. In 2000, the damages already amounted to 25 million Kč.

In 2000, ČD negotiated with two serious interested parties about the sale of the building, but it did not materialise. The Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic declared the recording building and the waiting hall on the island railway platform as Kulturd in 2001