Railway Architecture

[cammo2003 20]

Seeing as there wasn't a thread for this, I figured I might as well start one . Feel free to post your shots of railway related buildings here (primarily stations, but anything's ok) but PLEASE host them offsite. I personally use ImageShack , but there's a number of other sites out there.

I might as well get the ball rolling with a few shots of my own. These are all of Sydney's Central Station. They're all thumbnailed as the actual images are all above the ST size limit.

Click on the thumbnails to see the picture.








And a shot of the interior or two...



Feel free to post your own shots!

Sorry about the low(ish) quality of the pictures - it was a cloudy day and it was mid-arvo (it's winter here, sun sets early).

[p2h5 3]

Stations often have quite interesting architecture, especially in Europe, where they are often built in a very imposing style, which relates to communist 'Russian' style architecture, like Helsinki station, which is interesting, although, in my opinion, rather unpleasant:

 

 

 

And Milan station is pretty imposing too, although a more attractive building style:

 

 

 

 

[GingerBlokey 30]

Waterloo Eurostar Terminal, London, UK


York Mainline Station, York, UK

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I have seen London Waterloo station a lot. Quite a good example of true architecture.

[GAT-X105 3]

Here is Hoboken Terminal in Hobokan, NJ. It's right across the river from Manhattan. The arches on the left used to be for ferries, but right now they're just empty. They may be renovated some time in the future. The radio antenna is where a big clock tower used to be.

It used to be in really crappy shape up until a few years ago, when the waiting room and platforms were renovated.

Big picture so linky.

[mentarman 14]

St. Louis Union Station, built in a style called Richardsonian Romanesque.

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[newyorkrunaway1 110]

this stuff is really neat, i would love to see it!!!

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Glasgow Central view from the junction of Arglye Street and Oswald Street. This is the glass walled bridge that heads south over the River Clyde. There is also a low level line connecting east to west.

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This is an aerial view. I believe Glasgow Central is the largest glass roofed structure in the world but I may be wrong.

 

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Indoors:

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This is the main entrance at Gordon Street (actual entrance is slightly to the left out of the picture)

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Another view of the bridge:

 

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This is an old old picture of how busy it used to get:

 

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[GingerBlokey 30]

I love Glasgow Central station its bootiful. I also like Birmingham New Street Brutalist style

[Deathtoall 28]

i think melborune's new station(spencer street staion which is a giant wave like dome will be the new biggest glass roff building however i might be wrong,  they are building it over the exsisting structure     

 

homepage below

 

http://www.spencerstreetstation.com.au/default.asp

[p2h5 3]

Not forgetting probably the best station in the world, post refurbishment, Grand Central Terminal in New York:

 

 

 

 

 

[lakeyboy 12]

3 Words: Flinders Street Station. One of the most famous stations in the world.
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14 Platforms and has always been one of Melbournes main attractions. Being spruced up before the 2006 games.

[GaryReggae 81]

The inside of Waterloo station, London:

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Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus)

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[bobek 0]

Prague main station:

This is the old building, the new (1970's) passanger hall with an underground station is beneath the avenue:


Front side of the building:


The tracks leading to the tunnels (photographed from the street above the tunnels):


The old hall interior (cafe nowadays):


And finally, great example of railway architecture, the Kaproun halt on Jindrichuv Hradec - Nova Bystrice narrow-gauge railway:

You actually have to wave for the train to stop...

[deadwoods 542]

Flinders St in Melbourne is a very unique building. I look down on it from work and try and convince myself to have a go at batting it.

There's something wrong with the Mumbai photo's, there's nowhere near enough people flooding in/out. I was taken there by a colleague on a work trip to Mumbai and almost got carried away with the flow of people.

That Glasgow Station is very impressive. We lotted Xannepan's Amsterdam Centraal Station last year, and over the course of the project I came to appreciate how cool that station is.

[Odd from Sweden 129]

May I point out that p2h5

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p2h5: Yes I remember Grand Central Station for it's niceness and size.

GaryReggae: That picture is too familier, I am going back there tommorow. They recentley refirbished the roof for that station so it looks a lot nicer now than it did.

[frogface 354]

Some Abandoned stations UK

Liverpool Exchange

 

the good old days when trains wernt made out of plastic

 

 

Liverpool Central high level

I quite like the pattern on the end of the train shed

 

 

Manchester Central

 

How to restore an old train station, this is now a convention centre

 

 

Nottingham Victoria

how not to restore a station. this was all demolished for a shopping centre of 60's blandness

 

Bradford Exchange

now replaced by new crown courts

 

there are many many more stations but unfortunately pictures are hard to find

 

at the height of our railways the UK had 21,000 miles of track! not bad for a small island thanks to good ol dr beeching it has been reduced, today it is about 12,000 miles and with it we lost some good stations

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_Axe

 

[halo_lover 1]

Philadelphia's main station is 30th Street Station. IMO it's a lot like Grand Central up in NYC, but bigger and nicer. It's right across the river from downtown Philadelphia, in the University City district (which is where the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University are), which is basically right between Center City and West Philadelphia (cue Fresh Prince theme)








(where that big parking lot is, there is now a new skyscraper, the Cira Centre, and it's about 28 stories high, and quite beautiful, I'll get a pic of...)



Aah, here's a good one of 30th Street Station and the Cira Centre (although it's still underconstruction...they just finished building it like a month ago):


Good aerial showing Cira u/c again:


And finally, a finished one of Cira (30th Street Station right behind it):
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Cira is very much related to 30th Street Station. Basically, it's transit-oriented development. It's in a KOZ (Keystone Opportunity Zone), so there are no property taxes. They want to eventually build more buildings in the area, known as the Powelton Rail Yards.

[GAT-X105 3]

New York's Pennsylvania Station was beautiful. Too bad it was torn down in the 60s.


There still is a PEnn Station, but it's under Madison Square Garden.

[cammo2003 20]

Date: 7/22/2005 9:55:18 PM
Author: GAT-X105
New York's Pennsylvania Station was beautiful. Too bad it was torn down in the 60s.




There still is a PEnn Station, but it's under Madison Square Garden.

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From the image you've shown it looks like it was. I sincerely hope that Sydney Central never suffers the same fate, unlike the nearby Eveleigh Train Maintenance Centre is likely to. It was used in one of the world wars (2, I think) to produce weapons of war. Ok, it's not just that reason - It's centrally located for network purposes, and is an ideal location to reinsert trains into the network before the afternoon peak.

Living in Sydney and having Sydney Central as our main station, it's hard for me to visualise a hold of all a central terminal's platforms being underground. We have a grand total of just two operating platforms underground, with two unused platforms down there also (because the hole had to go so deep, they decided to whack an extra couple of platorms in.)

For the record, there's 23 plaforms above ground. Physically, though, it's kindof like two stations joined by walkways. I've posted an aerial image of it from Google Maps in another thread somewhere that gives a good impression of just how big the station is.

It's a shame they kicked out the railway themed snackshops and replaced them with Hungry Jack's, though. When they were still there, it really had an atmosphere. My pictures really don't do the station justice. That said, lakeyboy's images of FSS are making my mouth water.

Deadwoods: you should try it. Though I'm not from Melbourne, FSS would be a brilliant addition to the list of BATs. I'd love to see Sydney Central too, mainly for its size and mix of both terminating and through platforms. Of course, the transit-enabling would be a veritable nightmare!

I really should put out a challenge to somebody, shouldn't I?

[EnigmaticUK 1]

Date: 7/22/2005 6:23:38 AM
Author: GingerBlokey
I love Glasgow Central station its bootiful. I also like Birmingham New Street Brutalist style

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Birmingham New Street station is truly awful. Compare the horrible, dark and cramped layout with the airy steel and glass cathedral it replaced



As far as 1960s railway stations go, a better example is the bland but well laid-out and lit modernist station a short train line away at Coventry which for some inexplicable reason is Grade II listed. But they aren't a patch of the extravangance of Victorian railway architecture.

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This is St Pancreas Station in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />London, a Victorian wedding cake gem of a place and currently being restored to be the main London terminal of the Channel tunnel rail link; the aerial shot shows just how close it is to Kings Cross Station, built by a competing railway company. The modern building on its left is the British Library.

 

 

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Its a shame in the 1960's peaple had the tendonsy to demolish nice looking stations and replace them with ugly things.

The St Pancrus pictures are nice. You can see in the first picture above where they are building the new international Eurostar platforms, longer to the current domistic one's.

 

Here are some more pictures:

 

 

 

 

[cammo2003 20]

Date: 7/22/2005 9:35:03 AM
Author: bobek

And finally, great example of railway architecture, the Kaproun halt on Jindrichuv Hradec - Nova Bystrice narrow-gauge railway:

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lol. We have a few stations similar to that (in terms of being in the middle of nowhere. We probably have several of the shortest actual platforms in the world. Zig Zag springs to mind... One door wide, I believe, lol.

Several stations are located in the middle of nowhere. Particularly Wondabyne. There's one house nearby. Yeah, you heard right, one. It actually serves a town on the other side of Brisbane Water (useful, huh?).

Oh, and then there's Bombo. They could have built the station a couple of km's north, but no, they built it in front of a beach, where there's almost nothing around. . Mind, it's quite a nice beach. And there are houses nearby, I believe. But with Kiama station a very short distance away, the question WHY? springs to mind.

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Date: 7/27/2005 4:12:20 AM Author: cammo2003

Date: 7/22/2005 9:35:03 AM Author: bobek And finally, great example of railway architecture, the Kaproun halt on Jindrichuv Hradec - Nova Bystrice narrow-gauge railway:

quote> lol. We have a few stations similar to that (in terms of being in the middle of nowhere. We probably have several of the shortest actual platforms in the world. Zig Zag springs to mind... One door wide, 

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this would never happen today

 

my local town station was actually built in the middle of nowhere when the railway was first built here. nobody knows why they put it here, and then the town grew around the station, it didn't all go to plan though. hailsham a few miles north was meant to be a large rail junction and now its abandonded, eastbourne a few miles south was meant to be just a small tourist station and now its a medium size terminus

[Glenni 1,447]

lol froggie!!

[barnatom 0]

Hello to everyone. This is my first post in this forum. Railway architecture fascinates me, so I enjoyed your previous pictures of stations from all over the world.
I would like to show you the greatest terminus in Germany. (I believe it is the largest in Europe.) The Hauptbahnhof in Leipzig. Inaugurated in 1915, it replaced several older stations that belonged to the 'K

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Welcome to Simtropolis. PM me or others if you need help.

No don't worrey you are not breacking any forum rules. Those pictures are very nice, great architecture.