post thr modt beautiful train station from all over the world.if you would like i would be happy to see your cities train station.
Massive terminal stations make me irrationally upset.
>>2078422I was pleasantly surprised by Brussels Noord, the main hall is gorgeous. Shame that it's surrounded by brutalist concrete bricks.
>>2078434>Brussels brutalist concrete blocksI thought Brussels survived WW2 mostly intact?
>>2078435Yeah, it has, but they built a huge new business district housing government and EU offices around that station. It's not nearly as bad in the other parts of town I saw.
>>2078432Why's that?
Fort Street Union Depot in Detroit. “Railroad Romanesque” was a popular style in the late 19th century. Rough chunky stonemasonry, half round arches, turrets and towers.
Another example of Railroad Romanesque, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It’s now a restaurant next to the modern soulless Amtrak station.
>>2078422>>2078423>>2078424>>2078425>>2078426>>2078430>>2078448>>2078492Life was so much better before the mud flood
Luz, São Paulo
>>2078510what do they call it when they turn off the lights?
>>2078537Nobody's ever found out, because they can't read the signs :D
>>2078446Throughput stations are much more powerful and efficient.
>>2078546>powerful and efficientThat's not so.
>>2078547Okay.
>>2078546Yeh but big ol' terminal stations are gigakino deal with it
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>>2078548pic was taken before Nightsleeper?
>>2078422Michigan Central in Detroit is renovated now after decades of neglect. no longer an actual train station anymore, but I think there are some vague, hand-wavy ideas to eventually have trains go there again. I wouldn't bet on it, but it's still a cool building.
>>2078691The Michigan Central depot was the centerpiece of Detroit Ruin Porn for decades and they really did a great job restoring it, even reopening quarries where the original stone came from and getting back some artifacts that had been looted over the years. The same architectural firm that did New York’s Grand Central Terminal did it in the same Beaux Arts style, as the New York Central was parent company of Michigan Central. I don’t believe the talk of actual trains but who knows? How much of the office space have they filled up? The building was always a white elephant as the railroad hoped the central business district would migrate west from downtown but it never did. I don’t see that changing with the glut of post COVID office space and I know they’re talking hotel and restaurants.,
>>2078764wow, a real life Hall of Justice
>>2078697>I know they’re talking hotel and restaurantsIf they get the building in use, don't complain too much; it's far better than letting it go derelict.
>>2078547Don't care about "powerful" but "efficient" is definitely true (assuming non-retarded track layout) as there's less crossing of train movements.
>>2078856That's true. However, it ignores the simple fact that trains have to stop somewhere, both as scheduled services and in order to recover from disruptions elsewhere. These concepts are foreign to transit youtubers who just learned what through-running means from a dictionary, or have had this pushed upon them by The Algorithm, and so will basedface point at it just like they did HSR, clockface timetables, cross-platform transfers, """multi-modal integration""", blah blah blah blah blah.
How does a trains n00b get from Frankfurt to Lisboa via train only and take a bicycle on every train?
>>2078883>it ignores the simple fact that trains have to stop somewhereyes, in multiple locations where land is less expensivethis is not a hard concept
>>2079126I'm not entirely sure what point you are trying to make. I'm sure you're not disagreeing that trains have to stop somewhere, because that would be deranged even for this website.
>>2079171the point is that instead of terminating trains at a single large station in the centre you terminate them at many small stations on the outskirts
>>2079179But that has nothing to do with crossing of train movements.
>>2079180what the fuck are you on about
It seems topsy-turvy that this is 'just' a commuter rail terminal, whereas New York's intercity railway station is ... not quite as grand.
>>2079204well, it was an intercity terminal when it was builtmind you american terminals never impress me because the actual platforms tend to be pits
>>2079215That's a bit emblematic of the american experience overall innit; nice veneer, ugly as hell if you look deeper.
>>2079123Go to bahn.de and unselect the high speed trains options in the Journey Planner. In France you can use TER and lical trains in Spain. It will take a couple of days tgough.
Any love for American tradstations
>>2079259OK look I got a job lined up in portugal and I'm in germany. I can not fuck this up. I harbour reservations regarding the motorist. But with everything I still have to do and the time I need to arrive I will have to use some form of motorized transport unless I wajlnt to expose the turbo autism before I even start work. So I need the train, or plane even.I checked some sites.>MFW there seems to be not one (1) website that handles it all. Calculate trips making sure the bicycle rides along, process payment, distribute the payment and issue either a combined billett or at least collect them and forward them in one transaction.>why is this so hard ffsWhat I found has me switch 4 times or so and travel 24 hours at the price of a fucking flight AND I have to go to each provider and make sure the bike comes along.I'm serious about this. Worst case I'll get on the fag plane and buy a bike there.
I love the stations of the Rhaetische Bahn. This one is from the village of Saas, you can see it at the back. The building in front is a little restaurant/café called the "Bahnhöfli", which means the little train station. Even the trains are cute and bright red. Walking around there honestly feels like you've been transported inside a miniature train set, I'm surprised more train fanatics don't make the journey. My guess is the steep prices.
>>2079392It's all become utterly touristic and soulless up there tbqhwymfI prefer Appenzeller Bahnen. Less cutesy but more genuine and the region is relentlessly beautiful
>>2079300>american train station
>>2079511that's in spain though
>>2078697Getting people to take downtown jobs is always a bit challenging and the depot being outside of the downtown core is even more challenging. Ford is consolidating in the new HQ while GM is leaving the Renaissance Center for much smaller office space nearby. Companies are shedding white collar workers in the US, so office demand will continue to be weak.The only positive I see is that two of the Renaissance Center office towers are going to be torn down, while the other two are converted into condos and apartments. That's a lot of office space coming off the market and I'm guessing GM is overestimating how much they can downsize their office space needs downtown so they might end up leasing part of the dept. It being owned by Ford shouldn't be an issue given that the Renaissance Center was originally built by Ford and GM still used it as their HQ.
>>2079386I'll go fly.
