Station buildings

 See also category: Train stations.

Architecture

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  Manchester: Liverpool & Manchester Railway station (1830).
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  Naples: Stazione Bayard (right, 1839) and Regia (left, 1843).
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  Vienna: twin stations Staatsbahnhof (left) and Gloggnitzer Bahnhof (right) from the early 1840s.
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  Mannheim: the first station building and train shed (1840).

Gates

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  London Euston (1838): portico theme as a stand-alone gateway to the station square.
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  Huddersfield (Yorks., England) (1850): palladian classicism with a portico.
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  Stuttgart Central-Bahnhof (1868; right): a travesty of the triumphal arch motif.
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  Newcastle (England) (1850): a prominent portico.

Facades

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  Augsburg Hauptbahnhof (1843): the iron arcade of one of the oldest surviving station buildings in Germany.
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  Bologna Centrale (1873): columned arcade to the "Florence" palace.
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  London Victoria (LBSCR) (1860): arcade from the station to the hotel building.
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  Bari Centrale (1874): broad facade with cartouche clock.

Station clocks

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  St Petersburg, Baltiysky Rail Terminal (1857): a copy of the Paris Gare de l'Est.
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  Chicago Dearborn (or Polk St.) (1883): a station clock tower as the centre of the composition.
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  Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof (1932): the clock tower in the crude style of "Neue Sachlichkeit".

Increasing scale

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  Hitchcock Depot -- Santa Fe (Alta Loma), Texas (1893)
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  Karachi Cantonment Railway Station (1898): subcontinental grandeur.
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  Howrah railway station (1854): the main terminal building.
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  New York Pennsylvania Station (1908): the entrance hall (demolished 1968).
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  Old Santa Fe Union Station, Galveston (1913)
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  Kansas City Union Station (1914): renovated for new uses.
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  Milano Centrale (designed 1913).
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  Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad).
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  Kharkiv, Ukraine (1952).
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  St Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), Finlyandsky Rail Terminal (1960).
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  Warszawa Centralna, Poland (1975).

Small stations

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  Bereket city railway station, Turkmenistan.
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  Great Kills (New York City, built 1933): Brick station house sits above platforms with entrance at street level
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  Stamford (Lincs., Eng; 1846): Tudor style - one of the forms of romantic British railway stations.
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  Złotów (Poland, 1870s): German Romantic style.
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  Illnau (Switzerland): Alpine style, with a distinctive "Tyrolean" roof (over the goods shed).
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  Jedlová (Czech Republic): building with arcades typical of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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  Hoorn (Netherlands; 1883): Dutch Neo-mannerism.
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  Pabianice (Poland, 1903): Neo-renaissance with "familiar" roof.
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  Padrón (Galicia, Spain): Neo-renaissance; form typical of many stations in Spain, France, Italy.
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  Perugia Sant'Anna (Perugia, Italy; 1920): Neo-renaissance, Italian Stile Liberty.
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  Middletown (New York; 1897) characteristic of the U.S. spreading roof, neo-Romanesque style.
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  Røyken (Norway; 1872?): a simple Scandinavian wooden station building.
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  International-Great Northern Railroad Passenger Depot (1906) -- Rockdale, Texas
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  Białowieża (eastern Poland; 1897?): wooden building in the eastern European tradition.
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  Overbrook (Philadelphia; 1858, rebuilt 1880s), one of the oldest in America.
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  Taisha (Japan; 1924): traditional Japanese wooden station.
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  Michalin near Warsaw, Poland (1936). One architect built over a dozen identical modern stations near Warsaw.

Other elements of station architecture

Main gallery: Railway station.

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  Tynemouth (England): platforms and canopies.
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  Crawley (England): signal box
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  Oldenburg (Germany): water tower.
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  Würzburg Hbf (Germany): signal gantry.
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  Milan Porta Garibaldi (Italy):Entrance tracks to the station.