So?


In India, it has got to be the Victoria Terminus in Mumbai.

http://tinypic.com/9apqgo.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/valmayukuk/victoriaterminusgipbombay.jpg

http://img46.exs.cx/img46/289/1262659imgsized2sm.jpg

wow those are some amazing Gothic and Byzantine details for a train station.

Well thats how Most of EM are in southAsia;P

wow those are some amazing Gothic and Byzantine details for a train station.


Hehehehe yeah. Its supposed to be really good. Its said that when it was built, the "Rulers of India, bought South Kensington with them". This VT plays host to over 2.5 million people a day :nuts:. There are other big stations in Madras too. They are gigantic.

Here are some more fotos

http://mishuna.image.pbase.com/u8/bmcmorrow/upload/37341890.DSC_0120.JPG

Progress

http://mishami.image.pbase.com/u8/bmcmorrow/upload/37370814.DSC_0092.JPG

A night pic

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/5536/cstnight8hy.jpg

Pic from www.irfca.org

thats beautiful.. so like gothic and european but at the same time indian, nice blend

The U.S.'s i think would be Grand Central Terminal in New York

Those are fantastic Mumbai pictures of Victoria Terminus.

This is Kuala Lumpur’s old railway station (right) and railway office in a 1950/60s picture. Built along the lines of railway station architecture of India during the British rule, it’s still one of the most imposing buildings in KL.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/argory/Kuala%20Lumpur/klx.jpg

More recent views...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/argory/CopyofKLNov2004022-skc.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/argory/Kuala%20Lumpur/.jpg

In the UK, I'd probably say York. Its not as modern as most UK stations, but thats what I like about it :)
http://www.edmund1.demon.co.uk/York/graphics/york-002.jpg

Grand Central Station, NYC
http://www.squashpics.com/2005pics/TOC01%20Grand%20Central%20Station%2005TC0703.jpg
http://www.soulofamerica.com/images/photosnyc/Grand_Central_Station.jpg

^^

I would agree with Grand Central station for the United States. I don't think the US was ever into fancy railway stations. We probably focused more on building tracks to span our vast country.

Victoria Terminus in Mumbai looks very grand! It's a good thing they conserve the station

Grand Central Station

http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8663/dscf01677lb.th.jpg (http://img149.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf01677lb.jpg)

As far as I know the biggest train station in Germany and Europe is Leipzig!

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a26/beta29/IM000024.jpg


http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a26/beta29/IM000022.jpg



But in the year 2006 Berlin Lehrter Bahnhof will be bigger

^^yup! it has to be either leipzig or Frankfurt

some more pics from Leipzig (east Germany):

http://www.hannover-luftbilder.de/bilder/Leipzig/luftbild-Bahnhof-leipzig-kl26A_0027.jpg
http://www.horst-dj8qq.de/BAHNHOF.JPG
http://sun1.izbi.uni-leipzig.de/dils04/bilder/bahnhof-large.jpg
http://www.skraatz.de/leipzig/IMG_3615.jpg

the steel work of the train hall:
http://www.steffen-bittner.de/Leipzig/dsc00080.jpg

I think Grand Central is a joke. What's so special about it?

To me Hanover Hauptbahnhof is the grandest railway station in Germany:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/Hannoi/ea005ad5.jpg

http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/de/station/Hannover/Hauptbahnhof/000519_Dsc00161.jpg

That and Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof.

^^Well I think Grand central surely is a great looking station.

Btw: does somebody have pics from the recently renovated roof of the Frankfurt mainstation??
Im desperately looking for some ,but I cant find any.

Those Mumbai pics are astonishing.

In Belgium the busiest are the Brussels North, Central and South station, but the most beautiful imo is ANTWERP CENTRAL STATION. Some pics :

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/poller1/Hpim1915.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/poller1/Hpim1910.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y43/poller1/Hpim1233.jpg

@Checker: This is the only pic I have:


FRANKFURT Hauptbahnhof:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a26/beta29/sbs_d_841_b_blick_hbf_500x403.jpg

Here´s the BERLIN Hauptbahnhof, it will be the biggest station in europe.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a26/beta29/berlin-hbf-1.jpg

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a26/beta29/berlin-hbf-2.jpg

http://img122.exs.cx/img122/3792/page9d2vn.gif

The interior
http://yoyo.its.monash.edu.au/~clm/photos/00000014/00000002/00000022.web.jpg

http://pachome1.pacific.net.sg/~goh.andrew/kelantan/kl_sentral.jpg

KL Sentral is the main interchange station in Kuala Lumpur.This is one of the platforms.
http://img134.exs.cx/img134/4208/dscn465iw.jpg

Zürich Hauptbahnhof (HB)
http://www.zoidberg.earth.ch/joker/HB/Zurich_HB_1.jpg
http://www.zoidberg.earth.ch/joker/HB/Zurich_HB_5.jpg
http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=221636

paris North station
Busiest train station in europe with 180 million traveller per year
opened in 1846
facade
http://www.pics.kaybee.org:81/Vacations/Europe2003/Paris/Gare_du_Nord/across_the_street3.jpg
http://www.parisbalades.com/PhotoA/e-f-g/Gare_du_nord.jpg

hall
http://www.dosgatos.com/paris-london/photo142.jpg


http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/colonna/photo/images/Gare%20du%20Nord%2C%20trains.jpg
eurostar platform
http://www.uvt.bme.hu/bocz/ivokor/ivokor_kep/Nygma_parizs/IM008838.JPG

suburban hall
http://archiguide.free.fr/PH/FRA/Par/P10GarNord2PhasAPG01.jpg
http://www.dogheads.jp/img/gare_du_nord01.gif

The most beautifull station of the Netherlands is Amsterdam Central Station build between 1882 and 1889

http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/pics/msp/centraal3.jpg
The front facade

London Paddington
http://www.morlocks.btinternet.co.uk/video/Fuji/paddington-s.jpg
London Victoria
http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/railways_victoria_station_grosvenor_hotel.jpg
London St Pancrease(used in Harry Potter)
http://hpbimg.theknightbus.co.uk/PANCREAS.gif
London Waterloo Eurostar Terminal
http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/img_hr/High%20Tech.jpg

@beta29

I dont think that the new Lehrter traintsation will be bigger than Frankfurt or Leipzig.
It will surely be one of Europes biggest.
But from what I heard it will only be Europes biggest crossing trainstation,(Kreuzungsbahnhof).
Most of the traffic will be held underground

some more pics:

http://www.zdb.de/zdb.nsf/59C6ABA19BE2B276C1256D2E0055880A/$File/_26_0253.JPG
http://www.manfred-wolff.com/images/bahnhof.jpg
http://www.donges.de/produktgruppen/buero.und.verwaltung/fotos/Lehrter-Bhf_Ansicht.jpg
http://architettura.supereva.it/image/festival/2000/pics/2000184.jpg

it will be finished in 2006,just before the worldcup

@Checker: This is the only pic I have:


FRANKFURT Hauptbahnhof:
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a26/beta29/sbs_d_841_b_blick_hbf_500x403.jpg

thx for that!

But this pic still shows the old roof!
This is how its supposed to look now:
http://www.frankfurt-main.ihk.de/presse/ihk-wirtschaftsforum/2003/0311/hauptbahnhof/image.jpg

the old original roof has been restored,and general renovation works have been carried out, for a sum no less than 200 to 300 million euros!

in contrast: this is the roof before renovation:

http://kauler.com/gallery/germany/002.jpg

I have no photo's, but I can say that the new roof in Frankfurt's Hauptbahnhof really makes a great difference. They done some other small improvements on the rest of the station, but unfortunately just the roof has been fully renovated. Real pity, I was hoping they would do something grand like in Leipzig - that is one amazing station.

AMSTERDAM CENTRAAL STATION (1884)
The largest and busiest train palace in the Netherlands, currently extended with the newly drilled underground noth-south subway line and a huge extension.
http://ivv.asp4all.nl/live/bijlagen/ijsei/figuren/luchtfoto_home.jpg
http://www.signalbox.org/overseas/netherlands/amsterdameast-v.jpg
http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/pics/nieuws/oostertoegang/oostertoegang1.jpg
http://www.schlitt.info/applications/gallery/albums/php_conference_2004_amsterdam/aab.sized.jpg
http://www.noordzuidlijn.amsterdam.nl/live/bijlagen/ijsei/figuren/juli2005/kap2.jpg
http://www.noordzuidlijn.amsterdam.nl/live/bijlagen/ijsei/figuren/juli2005/openbareruimte2.jpg
http://www.noordzuidlijn.amsterdam.nl/live/bijlagen/ijsei/figuren/juli2005/autoonderdoorgang1.jpg
http://www.noordzuidlijn.amsterdam.nl/live/bijlagen/ijsei/figuren/juli2005/kap1.jpg
http://www.amsterdamsebinnenstad.nl/binnenstad/175/metrokaart.jpg
Amsterdam metro-system, with the Central Station as centerpoint. The blue line is the one being constructed now.

MILAN, CENTRAL STATION / STAZIONE CENTRALE DI MILANO

INSIDE & OUTSIDE

http://tinypic.com/eb6lvm.jpg
http://tinypic.com/eb6lxz.jpg
http://tinypic.com/eb6m2o.jpg
http://tinypic.com/eb772a.jpg
http://tinypic.com/eb6m85.jpg
http://tinypic.com/eb6ma8.jpg
http://tinypic.com/eb6mc0.jpg
http://tinypic.com/eb76lf.jpg
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http://tinypic.com/eb7702.jpg
http://tinypic.com/eb779i.jpg
http://tinypic.com/eb77eb.jpg

Canada: Toronto's Union Station.
Construction began in 1914
Opened in 1927

Facts and Figures:

Union Station functions as Toronto's transportation hub for passenger rail, GO commuter trains, and subway and GO bus service. The station is used by GO Transit, VIA Rail, Amtrack, and Ontario Northland Railways as well as providing a direct connection to the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).

Every year, Union Station handles more passengers than all three terminals at Pearson International Airport, the nation's busiest airport:
41 million GO Train and bus passengers
20 million TTC subway passengers
2.34 million VIA passengers

Every business day, Union Station serves more than 130,000 GO Train passengers and 30,000 bus passengers. This number is expected to more than double over the next 20 years. If these riders were to drive motor vehicles, 48 lanes of highways would need to be added to accommodate the increase traffic volume.

Special events in the vicinity of Union Station can increase passenger volumes by approximately 2,300 GO passengers and 11,000 TTC passengers in a peak 15 minute interval.

Union Station is VIA Rail's busiest station with over 50 per cent of all VIA passengers using this station.

GO trains and buses serve a population of five million in an 8,000 square kilometre area.

The TTC's Union Station subway station is the fourth busiest station in the TTC system, used by 75,000 passengers a day or 20 million a year.

The TTC operates 52 trains through Union Station in the busiest hour of the morning rush period - an average of one train every 70 seconds. The TTC operates 700 trains through Union Station on weekdays.

In total, Union Station's main building has a total gross floor area of approximately 65,627 sq. m (706,426 sq. ft.)

A rare picture of an evacuated Union station (http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/archives.html):
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7476/unionstation5dc.jpg

Tokyo's Shinjuku Station
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Shinjuku-station-night.jpg

Central Station, Zagreb, Croatia

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/2771/gk28jl.jpg

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8223/gk17xq.jpg

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/804/gk36io.jpg

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/9124/gk43xw.jpg

Japan's grandest station is probably Tokyo Station, although Shinjuku is the busiest by far.

As for the US, Grand Central Terminal without a doubt. Sad to say though, we tore down the original Penn in the early 60's. That station made Grand Central look like a cakewalk.

I don't know if it's without a doubt, Union Station in Washington, D.C is pretty impressive.

This is a nice simulation of how the new Lehrter Bahnhof in Berlin will look like:


http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5485/lehrter094oo.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

irans stations (big cities)

Tehran (biggest)
http://www.rajatrains.com/persian/images/photo/gal14_b.jpg
http://www.rajatrains.com/persian/images/photo/gal13_b.jpg


Mashad
http://www.rajatrains.com/persian/images/photo/gal15_b.jpg

Yazd
http://www.rajatrains.com/persian/images/photo/gal16_b.jpg

Arak
http://www.rajatrains.com/persian/images/photo/gal19_b.jpg

Ahwaz
http://www.rajatrains.com/persian/images/photo/gal20_b.jpg

^^

I would agree with Grand Central station for the United States. I don't think the US was ever into fancy railway stations. We probably focused more on building tracks to span our vast country.

Penn Station was the grandest railway terminal in the USA until they tore it down.
Before air travel became so popular in the States, the USA had the largest passenger railroad system in the world. Every major city had a grand railway station ( see DC, Kansas City, St Louis and other cities where the stations still stand, though more as shopping centers than train stations. ) But because the distances are so much greater in the USA than in Europe and other locations, air travel soon put an end to the passenger trains of yesteryear. The only place in the USA where train travel is still popular is the corridor between Washington and Boston, with NYC as the hub. Because of relatively short distances, train travel can still compete with the airlines in that market.

At one time or another I have been in virtually all the train stations of Europe, and my favorite for grandeur has always been Milan.

AMSTERDAM CENTRAAL STATION (1884)
The largest and busiest train palace in the Netherlands, currently extended with the newly drilled underground noth-south subway line and a huge extension.
http://ivv.asp4all.nl/live/bijlagen/ijsei/figuren/luchtfoto_home.jpg
http://www.signalbox.org/overseas/netherlands/amsterdameast-v.jpg
http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/pics/nieuws/oostertoegang/oostertoegang1.jpg
http://www.schlitt.info/applications/gallery/albums/php_conference_2004_amsterdam/aab.sized.jpg
http://www.noordzuidlijn.amsterdam.nl/live/bijlagen/ijsei/figuren/juli2005/kap2.jpg
http://www.noordzuidlijn.amsterdam.nl/live/bijlagen/ijsei/figuren/juli2005/openbareruimte2.jpg
http://www.noordzuidlijn.amsterdam.nl/live/bijlagen/ijsei/figuren/juli2005/autoonderdoorgang1.jpg
http://www.noordzuidlijn.amsterdam.nl/live/bijlagen/ijsei/figuren/juli2005/kap1.jpg
http://www.amsterdamsebinnenstad.nl/binnenstad/175/metrokaart.jpg
Amsterdam metro-system, with the Central Station as centerpoint. The blue line is the one being constructed now.


Isn't the central station of Utrecht bigger then the one of Amsterdam???

'Utrecht - Centraal' in the future (21 tracks):
http://www.utrecht.nl/smartsite.dws?id=17637&mw=1123&w=18&p=4537;116126;17698&parFrom=4537&infFrom=17698

http://www.utrecht.nl/smartsite.dws?id=116126&mw=1123&w=18&p=4537&parFrom=4537&infFrom=4537

the milan central station is amazing :shocked:

TORONTO -- UNION STATION

http://static.flickr.com/25/53313157_6d2287ee49_o.jpg

From the outside (I know this will now be the favourite station in the world.)

http://static.flickr.com/29/53312510_4fb16a4e0b_o.jpg