Antwerpen-Centraal
Architects: Louis DelaCenserie, Clement van Bogaert
The station’s main building, one of the world’s most impressive rail “cathedrals”, was built after the completion of the vault and the platforms.
From 1998 to 2007, the station was converted from a terminus into a through station.
ChhatrapatiShivaji Terminus
Architect: Frederik William Stevens
The station’s entrance gate displays sculptures of a lion and a tiger, symbolizing Britain and India respectively.
The building, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was completed in 1888 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
Architect: Santiago Calatrava S.A.
Thanks to this high-speed station, Liège is now only 39 minutes from Brussels, approx. 1 hour from Cologne, around 2 hours from Paris and Frankfurt, and approx. 3 hours from London.
The station is one of the busiest in Belgium as it is used by around 15,000 people every day
Architect: Johann Eduard Jacobsthal, Jean Duthilleul
The huge glass roof covering the façade of the historical building was added in 2007 as part of the station’s refurbishment.
The Gare de Strasbourg is the second-largest train station in France
Architect: Santiago Calatrava S.A.
The building was constructed in 1998 as a transportation hub for the Lisbon World Exhibition.
With approx. 75 million passengers per year, it is one of Portugal’s busiest stations.
Grand Central Terminal
Architect: Warren & Wetmore
Grand Central is a "terminal", not a station, because trains terminate there, mainly on stub-end tracks.
In 1968, the Penn Central Corporation proposed an office tower to be built over the building. There was little hope that the building could be saved until Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis stood in front of the building and urged the preservation of the historic site
Architect: Hubert Stier, FriedensreichHundertwasser
The original station building from 1887 was refurbished for the World Exposition from 1998 to 2000 by FriedensreichHundertwasser.
The station was one of Hundertwasser’s last projects as he died in 2000.
Architects: Lewis Cubitt, William Cubitt, John McAslan + Partners
King’s Cross Railway Station was built as the London hub of the Great Northern Railway and is the terminus of the East Coast main line.
The building has an important function in Joanne K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” novels: Platform 9 ¾, the starting point of the “Hogwarts Express”, is located in the station and can be accessed through a secret entrance in the brick-wall barrier between platforms 9 and 10.
Architects: Sybold of Ravesteyn, BenthemCrouwel, Meyer en Van SchootenArchitecten, West 8 Landscape Architects BV
The building was officially reopened on 13 March, 2014 by King Willem-Alexander.
The station sees about 110,000 passengers per day, and offers 750 car parking places as well as 5,200 bicycle parking spaces.
Architects: Grimshaw Architects, Daryl Jackson Pty Ltd
The original building was constructed in 1859 and formerly known as Spencer Street Station. A vast redevelopment of the station was completed in 2006, adding a dune-like roof that covers the station’s whole city block.
It is Melbourne's third-busiest railway station with approx. 16.8mn passengers per year.
WTC Transportation Hub
Architect: Santiago Calatrava S.A.
The railway station, which is currently under construction in New York, is due for completion in 2015.
The Hub's roof looks like wings made of glass and steel. They will allow natural light to enter the building.
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