Nové Butovice

The station Nové Butovice was named after a neighbouring village which had become part of Prague. The stationos located on the eastern edge of "Southwest Town" - a large area of apartement blocks in the southwest of Prague, served by five metro stations (Nové Butovice, Hůrka, Lužiny, Luka and Stodůlky) and several bus routes.
Nové Butovice was built in 1988 as a part of the III.B section, which extended line B from the former terminus Smíchovské nádraží to the Southwest Town. Until further extension to Zličín was opened, Nové Butovice was the only station serving the whole Southwest Town, so it was vital to build a bus terminal at this station. And it remained an important nod of city bus lines even after the next section of line B was built, because many parts of Southwest Town and other neighbouring quarters are too distant from metro stations and have to be served by buses.

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East ticket hall with bus station and parking space for city buses.
The three big buildings you can see to the left and to the right of the station are quite new; a few years ago there was no building around the east ticket hall. The older housing blocks are visiblebehind the station.

The east ticket hall as seen from a main road which runs elevated above the station (Bucharova as you can see on the map above). The carriageway in the foreground is used by buses arriving to the terminal.

Interior of the east ticket hall.

The west ticket hall is used more by inhabbitants of neghbouring hosing blocks.

Geenral view of the west ticket hall. Behind it you can see the previously mentioned new buildings.

Interior of the west ticket hall has very similar fashion to the east one.

Memorial plaque which is visible in the centre of the previous photo. It comemmorates completion of the new section of line B: Jinonice, Radlická and Nové Butovice (then called Dukelská).

Stairway from the west ticket hall to the platform.

The platform.

There are several advertisements on the walls behind the tracks. And on the yellow strip above there is quite unusual style of station name (common is station name on the wall, you can see one on the left side of the photo).

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