The railway line connecting Lublin with Warsaw and Kovel was opened in 1877 and called the Nadwiślańska Railway. A journey from Warsaw to Lublin took 7 hours then. The railway station was located far from the inner city, on industrial premises in the village of Bronowice – the place chosen by Feliks Łodzia Bieczyński, the chief engineer of Lublin Governorate. In 1877 an outstanding edifice of the train station was built according to the design by W. Lanci. The building was remodelled in the 1920s in the style of Eclecticism. Series of renovation and reconstruction works done in the 20th c. have given the railway station its present appearance.