Temples of Tra/n/sportation

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The workhorse of the American Public Transit System.....

The Un-sheltered bus stop.

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>>901572
>clearly in western sydney
The 131500 always bothers me. I really wish they just nailed a timetable to *all* the bus stops. Saves pulling out my phone to download them

Also, Kanazawa station ALWAYS applies

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1/5
all the same one

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2/5

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3/5

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4/5

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>>901611
muh curve

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Some London subsurface stations from the Metropolitan and District era are quite temple-like.

>>901572
Not a temple, a shrine.

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;_;

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>>901613

>>904355
>tfw this will get bulldozed and turned into a casino or project housing
God bless capitalism.

>>904469
Mein neeger. There's no place like home, but the most interesting station I've visited is this one >>904371 altought it's quite ugly.

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>>904478
There's three of us?

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I love the "TRAVEL BY TRAIN"

they all stink of piss

>>904469
Haven't been to that station in years. It always has been one of my favorite stations. Very iconic.

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>>901563
>train station thread
>no Cincinnati Union Terminal

Y'all dorks can't even get close to this beauty. This was the last beautiful station in the world to be built, prove me wrong.

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MMMM 1960

>>906448
The station I posted is from the same year, 1929. It, too, was one of the last beautiful stations to be built with the classic steam train architecture.
See >>901611 and >>901613

>>904371
>not Lerther Bahnhof

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>>904467
This is somewhere in Saxony-Anhalt, ain't it?

>>904355
This one looks like a jail desu

>>901563
Nice feels, OP. I love WAS. I live in Baltimore and I got wasted one night and took the MARC commuter train just to hang out in the station. Also, fun fact if you're riding the D.C. Metro: Bethesda station has the longest escalator in the western world!

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And of course Penn Station NYC is the comfiest undergound mall in the world. Here's something for Throwback Thursday: The Baltimore and Ohio station in West Baltimore!

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Ooops, wrong pic but still related.

>>901573
I am leaving here rn it's fucking GOAT

>>906457
Nope, Stuttgart

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Currently under construction.

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>>906825

>>906697
Oh, I didn't notice the hill in the back. I was once at a railway station with a similar blocky prison-like look, which was in either Saxony-Anhalt or Brandenburg.

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>>906825
>>906826
I'm sure in no time it will be clogged with illegals, chinks, homeless, and aggressive panhandlers in no time.

>>906840
Doubt it considering it won't have BART service.

>>906826
>>906825
>not designed to cope with expected traffic
>no BART connections
>the actual train station is in the basement and gas no natural light
Brilliant.

>>906840
>being this bigotted in 2015

>>907052
>Objecting to things on the basis of the current year in 2015

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my humble addition, legit kind of shitty but everyone from this city has passed through here and probably had great drunken experiences at one point or another

>>907032
Are you fucking retarded? To you not understand the concept of a subterranean station?

>not designed to cope with expected traffic
Citation NOW. Spoiler: You can't provide any because it's not true.

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30th St. Station

Philadelphia

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>>907157
rail, bus, metro, street car, ferry, and the largest bycicle parking lot in the world

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Boeing Field is pretty neat.

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Love me some Union Station. Not the most spectacular, but it's literally the nicest thing in my city.

>>907158

The last time I was there a few years ago I was happy to see the large metal pointless arrow logo still hanging in the Amtrak office just off the concourse.

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good thread

Milano centrale, central gallery

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>>907211
the outside, 50 years ago

>>906581
Inside and outside St Louis's Union Station is the most beautiful in North America IMHO. Too bad StL is a shit city.

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>>907158
East Coast GOAT
The just-proposed expansion plans to the north concourse will make it even better

>>907252
ew, looks like just another generic civic building with pillars in front

>>907160
Looks based

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>>906585
No prob, Anon. Thanks for the fun fact. I actually did something similar last time I was in Baltimore. I went to Charles Center to ride the Balt. Metro Subway. The train wasn't bad, but the system needs to be expanded. A city of Baltimore's size, needs more than 13 stops.

>>907123
I like it. I definitely have a thing for pics of trains and train stations covered in snow.

Bump for great architecture.

>>907844
Larry Hogan, MA's governor recently killed the red line in Baltimore, he tried to kill the purple line in suburban D.C. but I'm pretty sure he failed at that and construction has already started IIRC.

>>904502
1/10
Made me reply

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>>906589
Boo! Boo! You tore down this to build Monosodium Garden, that barrel of putrescence. You had beauty with light and space, and you gave it up for an umbrella stand, so go on, bow down to your mall. Muck! Slime! Boo!

>>906841
Climb out of your hole and see your city, morlock.

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>>910713
Yeah, I remember that. It's pretty shitty that he's put so much focus in trying to prevent transportation infrastructure improvements, in the name of saving rural taxpayers money. The state overall needs to start investing in urban transportation infrastructure if the state wants to continue to be economically competitive.

>>910761
Pennsylvania Railroad tore down Penn Station. Railroads were going into the tank so they needed the money for air rights.

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Mexico's city new airport. Still under construction.

>>906825
>caltrain
>n+ billion dollars
>low capacity, not enough platforms.

I'd rather take a strip of concrete and not have this piece of shit

>>911153
The thing doesn't even have a direct connection to MUNI or BART.
I've seen Amshack that were better integrated to public transit networks. Fucking land developers need to be ostracized from these types of projects.

>>911179
>The thing doesn't even have a direct connection to MUNI or BART.
Well there's a muni bus deck on the street level.

>>906840

given that Caltrain will charge riders an extra $5 to access it, probably not

>>907032

BART already has a connection in Milbrae for airport access, the TT makes more sense when you realize that Caltrain does not have a downtown SF station and BART is better served with a 19th/geary extension

>>911179

Again, it makes better sense when you realize that Caltrain has better things to do then play grabass with BART and BART has better things to do then fuck with the developers around their most profitable stations.

SF itself has no Amtrak connection, so connectivity issues aren't new. Ideally in 10-20 years once CAHSR is done, Caltrain can build a tube to Oakland and open up SF to Amtrak.

Also, Oakland itself could use a better Amtrak connection (its currently split between the Emeryville and Jack London Sq stations) and it would cost less to fix that mess and then build a tunnel to SF, rather than shoehorn in Amtrak service into SF somehow right now.

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Best station in the world coming through.

>>911124
The first time I was at umeda/oosaka, I had no idea where the surface was. At one point I thought I was going down stairs to deep underground, and I pop out on street level.

This station just never ends.

>>911389
Due to its relatively simple structure, I found Umeda somewhat of a nuisance compared to the big stations in Tokyo since you'd end up smashing into people nonstop

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one of buenos aires main stations/hubs

this Frankenstein has a facade on one side...

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>>911458

... a modernized classic/monumentalist side...

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>>911459

corner view so you can appreciate the merge between the two styles

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>>911460

inside

>>911458
>>911459
>>911460
>>911461
Looks nice,Buenos Aires has a really good architectural heritage.

>>911458
Is that Retiro or Once?

>>911474

none of them, constitucion

>>906825
>Bus stop on second floor

Really?

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As already posted many times, Antwerp Central station is in a league of its own.

Some of the newest stations on the Budapest metro are pretty special though. Photo is of Szent Gellért tér

>>904355
Actually, this one's currently being renovated, they've replaced all the glass in the tower.

>>911153
> 6 tracks
> not enough for an end of line station
pick one

>>911206
Amtrak is never going to San Francisco because Amtrak is never going to electrify that segment. Ever.

>>910765
Solid advice coming from someone who has never been outside his mom's basement. Oh fucking wait...

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Dulles Airport.

>>907032
Wrong. It will end up having a pedestrian tunnel connecting it to the Embarcadero BART station.

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>>910761
>mfw butthurt pennstationfags

>>912000
Which looks like shit because they got rid of the original mullions and used ugly cross muntins. There's also no money beyond sealing the interior.

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Updated 30th St. Station pic with repainted signage.

>>904355
A palace that will forever be cursed by its poor placement.

>>911555
subway in a wormhole

>>906825
>four stories of homeless piss smell

SF YES

>>901573
#HokurikuShinkansenMasterRace

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my favorite local airport

>>906581
Union Station Hotel is fairly nice itself, but the city around it is awful

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Literally the whole blue line of Stockholm tunnelbana.

At my local subway (Toronto,) Old Mill station is probably my favourite aestheticswise. about half of it is underground, and half is suspended over a valley. The suspended bit is encased in some glass and there's a nice view out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pvg9SGDn4E

>>915569
>tfw you think of the subway and long for the ttc door closing jingle

daaaa dun dunnnnnnn

>>915572
It's just G - E - C on a piano, senpai

>>912034
Question, have you ever been to terminals C/D?

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Okay, but seriously, why are train stations always so much more architecturally resplendent than airports?

The coolest thing I've seen is the O'Hare tunnel between terminals, everything else looks like a cross between a crappy mall and a waiting room from hell

>>907491

You shut your whore mouth

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In typical JR Hokkaido fashion, the columns are made from recycled rails

>>915658
Expectations of the customer. Ignoring the old ones (since there aren't really any airports with truly old buildings), people pass through at least 2 stations every time they travel which is probably every day. Thus there is a desire to at least make their life that little bit less depressing
With an airport, things are usually at least half decent in most lounges. Beyond that, using the same airport every day because you commute like that is highly unlikely. Airports are usually cash cows too so they don't really give a fuck about infrequent travellers. Oh and the aesthetic - aeroplanes are sleek so there's that also
In a way, you could argue I guess that airports are grand like modern Shinkansen stations. But at least with the Shinkansen station, the one and only layer of bureaucracy you have to contend with is the ticket gate

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>>915664
Sure, you're transient, but there's usually a layover if you're changing flights, and it usually lasts a while.

Meanwhile, every pilot lounge I've been in has been relatively comfy and fully featured, even though you're usually just there to refuel and take a piss, maybe get a hundred dollar hamburger if the FBO has a restaurant

>>915664
You have different historical design clues.

The biggest and busiest railway stations are from the romance and neoclassical era and even new ones carry some design clues from them. Airports started to appear in masses when functionalism was in vogue.

The few preserved 30s airports look nice in their own way, there were still few considerations for aesthetics carried from neoclassical era. Then came the era of "let's just make a big box of glass".

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Buh, my pic.

Too bad it may be bulldozed for a housing development.

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>>915673
The waiting room looks nice and tiny. None of this walking mile on foot paths bullshit, the plane would be waiting almost on the doorstep.

>>906825
What's with the bus on the second floor? Do people actually do that?

>>912036
50 years later and it still hurts

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>>915677

>>901563
cry

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Chattanooga Choo Choo

>>918823
Looks pretty comfy.

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No Russian Metro stations yet?

King Street Station in Seattle is very nice. Doesn't look like much on the inside but it has a nice interior. I travel through there all the time.

>>920085
Doesn't look like much on the outside*

Whoops

Interesting, but not to weird.
Both systems (the slime and the rail planners) were trying to solve the same problem on similar maps. Only makes sense that the solutions would be similar.

>>906453
much nicer than it looks from the outside desu senpai

>>923630
story on this contraption?

>>907052
>>907110
>being in 2015 in 2016

>>907161
>dat alignment with Rainier

>>926251
watch his
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHck3RNRTm0

>>927876
Those posts are from the P R E V I O U S Y E A R, buddy

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Russia's metro stations are schway as fuck

http://www.boredpanda.com/moscow-metro-station-architecture-russia-bright-future-david-burdeny/

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>>928191

I rode out of that station two weeks ago. I think the outside is pretty tacky DESU, but the inside looks nice.

I love the GC main concourse, but I'm using the subway every time I come by there and that section doesn't look as glamorous.

>>928260
needs a bigger american flag, I can barely tell what country its in.

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>>920991

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>>928372

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>>930355
I love how the verb in the title for the video is not 'drinking', but 'enjoying'.

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143 replies and no VST?

>>931387
wow.

colonialism at its best.

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This cathedral of transportation in Heumarkt, Cologne is sanctified for the future projects that one day shalt be prodigious.

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B E E C H I N G
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fuck off with this pointless thread.

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This might not seem like much but this being Los Angeles, it's pretty decent place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Sj-QRvXOo

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>>904469
Here i pray once in the month!

London king's cross

>>913237
oh man that is one ancient picture.

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Rotterdam Centraal.

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Arnhem Centraal.

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Radisson Metro station in Montreal. Simple, understated.

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>>935732
Interior.

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Fulton Center, New York City.

>>935735
ew

>>938045
rip buran

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>>941015

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>>941016

>>933094
This is also the police station in Blade Runner. That picture does not do it justice btw.

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>no Rossio station
come on guys, are you even trying?

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Our Union Station makes a tribute.

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Kwangbok Station, Pyongyang.

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>>947036
Have this before-after photo of one stop further along.

>>944054
comfy

>>920991
>Eurobeat intensifies

I like the stations in Essen, Germany.

http://www.guenter-pilger.de/Essen-U-Bahnhoefe.htm

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Broadway Junction in Brooklyn, NY.

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>>955883

>>956152
goddammit, perth

>>956152

Does the entire population of perth live there?

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>>955883
>>955884

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Lot of Kings Cross love on here, St. Pancras is better imo, quality Victorian old station and the new part with the Eurostar is great as well, also great shops and bars.

>>956678
I'd love to visit London solely to take the Tube/Overground/etc. and visit the fuckload of termini

>>911388
Where people in rush hour tackle kids and not even look back.

>>955883
There is something strangely fascinating about this, like the Loop in Chicago. You would be shot if you tried proposing something like this in this day and age.

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>>956687
Too bad there's no more elevated track structure in Manhattan proper anymore. There used to be an el on 2nd ave which I'm sure MTA would have loved to have about now, but I guess NY's removal of all the elevated track structure downtown only makes Chicago that much more unique.

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>>956708

A 9th avenue elevated/west side & yonkers patent railway (the first elevated rail/grade separated mass transit ROW in the United States, arguably in the world, some say liverpool's was first but that was mainly freight), and 6th, 3rd, and 2nd avenues.

Brooklyn has had a lot removed as well.

>>956687

it's actually really cool on the platform of the canarsie line/L train (the highest one) walking down to the south end, where you can see all of the flyovers that allow the L and J to switch lines without crossing, staring way off into the rockaways in the distance a hundred or two feet up in the air.

what's even crazier is that there used to be another elevated line (the fulton st. elevated which goes where the A does today) that went through this.

>>956708
>Too bad there's no more elevated track structure in Manhattan proper anymore.

- IRT 1-line, elevated track between 122nd and 135th street, elevated track above Dyckman street

- IND BDQN-lines, run on 4 tracks on the lower level of the Manhattan bridge
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LXBnG4_u_k )

- Metro North, Park Ave above 97th street

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>>956708
>>956713
>>956718
http://nycsubway.org/wiki/Subway_FAQ:_Elevated_Sections_of_the_Subway

< This image doe.

https://youtu.be/vEtfSiSPYOA

Impressive video of Paris Saint-Lazare railway station during rush hour.

This station sees 1600 trains per day, has connections with 5 subway lines, 16 bus lines and 1 RER (sort of S-Bahn) line. Second busiest in Europe with 100 millions passengers a year.

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>>956678
It's weird to see something as grandiose and classically 'London' next to a shitheap like Euston.

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the Frankfurt airport is pretty nice

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The Liège metro station in Paris has some nice mosaics

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Brest train station

you can see the interior here https://youtu.be/yeh6K7P7RHE

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priests of transportation at work

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This is the station attached to the international airport in Lyon.

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>>958284
Would you say it's the BREST train station ever?
Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

>>960915
>McReggeli

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>>960602
I don't know about the remake, but the 1974 Walter Mathou original The Taking of Pelham 123 was filmed half in what appeared to be an actual NYC transit command center thing like this pic, and half in the train itself. Pretty interesting. Good flick, too.

>>960640
impressive

>>957183
>shitheap like Euston
Euston is well known for being what you get when a station falls out of the ugly tree and hits every branch on the way down.

>>927921
That picture's missing the trams. Vantage point: almost directly over the tram terminus.

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IMHO Prague has very beautifully situated central station. Very pleasing from the top view.

>>964995
Only from the top view, mate. Only from the top view.

>>965023
well the ground view gets better if you just take the metro immediately

>>964995
livestream:
http://slowtv.playtvak.cz/zive-sledujte-vlaky-v-primem-prenosu-dwi-/hlavni-nadrazi.aspx

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Nicest airport I've been through in the states.

>>904465
I would hope that it has been designated as a historic landmark thus not allowing that to happen.

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Gare de Liège-Guillemins.

>>968661
>train stations that look like airports
pigdisgusting

>>965180
Being designated a historic landmark does not protect it. All that landmark legislation does is give it tax credits if it's being restored or renovated.

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My local railway station, Castle Cary.

It's not massive or artistic, but I like it. A good place to come for peace and quiet, punctured only by the occasional Intercity 125. Definitely therapeutic.

>>968817
Comfy as fuck

>>907180
and then there's the absolute ass via concourse, completely polarising.

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>>934360

>>934360
> Not having an extra row just for ÄÄËËÄÄÖËËÄ:DDD (sorry, my Finnish is rusty)

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>>901563
Close to there, but still very unique, I remember trainspotting here as a kid.

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Vorobyovy Gory (Sparrow Hills) metro station in Moscow. Built on a bridge over the Moscow River so it is quite an impressive feat of civil engineering.

>>972452
>A bridge
meh

>A bridge with a ticket booth and turnstile
"quite an impressive feat of civil engineering"

t.Russaboo

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Got this yesterday at Grand Central

>>972771
Different guy but I am a 4th year civil engineering student. Considering the stresses that the bridge would handle from trains coming to a stop on it and accelerating off of it all day long, that is impressive.

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I like this one. It's in a small city in northern Sweden, Umeå, but ever since seeing it I've always been a fan of it.

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>>972826
The beams are massive birch.

>>972826
>be me
>see thumbnail
>"oh hey, that almost looks like..."
>read post
>"it is!"

I live just nearby. I think it's kind of ugly.

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Gare de Strasbourg.

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>>974786
Hiding a beautiful facade inside an ugly wire-and-glass tube.

>>974804
capacity enlargement

I really like the Philly 30th Street station.

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Into the void.

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>>975104
The void.

>>974786
hey i'm from strasbourg ! what do you think of the gare ?

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Munich Terminal 2

>>975619
Really cool pic.

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>>977527
Didn't know taht the picture I pulled from the architect's site was so small. Here is a better one.

>>915668
wow, you've been in better pilot lounges than I have.
Restroom, Mr.Coffee, a few things in the glass case that you hope you haven't broken. A table and a couple of couches, wall map and weather station...

>>915673
Beautiful, mine was bulldozed for apartments...

>>961956
>MAX
>tram

wut

>>907846
it's not a train station. it's just some shitty random bus station, smack dab in a gentrified area with sushi restaurants. This station is on the same corner as a mcdonalds haunted by addicts, and a public library.

>>972826
umea, home of the Refused and Meshuggah.

faaaannn.

>>978559
A classification issue, mostly. It could be called that, if they fit into road vehicle loading gauge.

>>978549
Oh, what was that airport?

But yeap, that place is in mortal danger just currently. The state and the city have done all the necessary preliminary steps to close the place down, but the place is still active in the interim.

It's not like the city was running out of space, but some guy with too much influence owns land around the airport wants to build some more houses and a shopping center there.

>>977527
Terminal 1 sucks but Terminal 2 is probably the very best airport terminal in all of Europe.

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Hannover Hauptbahnhof (Hanover Central Station)
Allegedly, the king's statue is turning its back against the station cause the king hated trains, railways, stations and everybody involved. Now he's facing two tram lines and a mall named after Niki de Saint Phalle.
>>975104
THERE'S DINOSAURS IN VIETNAM!

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>>980031
>Now he's facing two tram lines
Not for long though.

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Liege-Guillemins railway station

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Berri-UQAM on the Montreal Metro. The entire system is great.

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>>980952
Mural at Place des Arts

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>>980954
Montmorency, one terminus of the Orange Line.

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>>980955
Sherbrooke, on the Orange right before Berri-UQAM. This is the station closest to where I live.

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>>980957
Stained glass outside of Champs-de-Mars

>>980781
What is happening?

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>>981075
Closing the surface line to Aegidientorplatz (which runs south of the station past the statue >>980031 mentioned) and building a new line to Raschplatz with a terminus north of the station, which will be a lot closer to the light rail trains in the A/B tunnel.

Also, as Hannover's light rail uses high floor trains, the necessary platforms for that would never fit on the southern square. With this project all non-accessible stops in the inner city will be eliminated. Though some of them will be literally eliminated as in no longer existing, the coverage will be worse.

>>975105
The only good metro system in the US tbqh famalam.

https://youtu.be/5NOoKNYinsg

>>901572

If we didn't do this homeless would just sleep in them

>>901572
Same thing I got

>>985156
Watch it go the same way as BER

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>>987023
Speaking of which. I have a drawing of BER on my ipad.

>>983095
BART is alright

>>981131
Interesting choice. The decrease in coverage doesn't seem too bad. Are there any plans of extending the lines from the new terminus? It looks awful, just hanging in the air there.

>>983095
It could be better, but I find it to be one of the more visually appealing systems in the US

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>>990396
The original plan was to build a fourth tunnel (D-Tunnel) that looped around the nothern city and connect what today are lines 10 and the southern branch of line 6. Two prepared underground stations for this tunnel exist, but as it is now they will never be used, meanwhile line 6 was integrated into the C-Tunnel (yellow) and line 10 remained on the surface.
In recent years some suggested starting an additional low-floor network including line 10, but the costs of a new incompatible system were deemed to high and instead the surface line will be made accessible with high-floor trains as seen above.
Any extension will always face the problem of building high-floor stations in narrow streets, the most likely one would be connecting it to the Zoo branch of line 11, a line that already existed in the pre-tunnel days. But no actual realistic plans exist for that yet.

Disclaimer: Am actually not from Hannover, only visited a couple of times and following discussions in german rail forums.

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The Temple of Aviation.

>>974903
there are better ways, friend

>>992361
So can every other rapid transit system. I sure hope they continue to make improvements on the system.

>>911388
Correct.

>>993032
Ew...

>>993004
Thanks for the info. I actually travel through Hannover every few weeks or so, but it's been years since I've used the Stadtbahn. The lines 10 and 17 always felt like a separate system of slow stopping trams instead of a fancy Stadtbahn with underground tunnels. I saw the construction sites for the new Hbf/Raschplatz station from a bus last week. I guess it's pretty cool that the ZOB gets a direct connection.

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>>944212
My preto, just went to this thread to see if Rossio was here. It's literally only served by one type of train, but the architecture is really dope.

>>996526
Spanish solution?

>>996526
Did you knew that this spring some tourist destroyed the king's statue in the front?

>>958282
That's not a mosaic bub, that's just painted tiles. A mosaic is made of small pieces which by themselves form the image.
Still looks very nice tho.

>>975105
The only time I've found brutalism to be somewhat aesthetically pleasing is the DC subway.

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>>996616
Brutalism is the best

>>995378
3 termials, 7 concourses, 5 parallel runways

all connected by automated mass transit that runs underground.

rail station in the main terminals connects to the rest of the city.

lots of interstate and surface road access.

lots of parking.

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>>904490
You know it, NW bro

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>>996741
Brutalism is pretty rad. That mega block of bland-ass international style modernist stuff in your photo is not brutalism though.

>>996741
dat tram station

>>996844
I have always been told that building was a prime example of brutalist architecture. It certainly does incorporate a lot of brute concrete and its incorporation into the surrounding landscape seems pretty brutal.
>>996856
It certainly is. I would post more pictures, but the image limit is reached. Is anyone up for a new thread?

>>996785
Hartsfield-Jackson is so user-friendly it's insane. completely different than every other airport experience I've ever had.

>>996844
That huge swath of brown mud really sets of the dirty grey concrete. Maybe they could step it up with some random littering of twisted rusting metal and a small tire fire?

Man brutalist architects really understood high aesthetic, didn't they?

>>996785
Just because it has good stats doesn't mean it's a good airport.

>>996798
Is it a small station,or is there more happening underground?

Either way, it's a cute looking train station.

>>996741
>Bielefeld
Nice try, but those buildings don't actually exist

>>998793
Cool meme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYzpnmi9-QQ

Frankfurt Terminal 3, under construction now.

>>904490
Good ole Union Station

>>904469
Reminds me of Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio. I'd post a pic but image limit reached.

>>997923
It is a good airport. It functions better than any other airport.

form doesn't matter.

>>1002235
No. End user experience matters just as much in making a good airport. Ever been to Changi?

I want this great thread to make it to its bump limit before it dies. Stuttgart station in the near future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBIXbeuYQ78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkefZ7S6LS0

Jeddah airport render

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s05iuR5viZk

video of DEN's now complete south terminal redevelopment.

>>1003062
Atlanta is great for the end users. The only thing cocking it up is the TSA.

>>1004614
That can be said of every US airport. Which by in large are not nice places to be. Denver and Atlanta are probably the best of the bunch though.

US airports have nothing on airports like Munich and Changi.

>>944054
hnnng

>>997010
Gross

>>983095
AAHAHAHAHAH do you even live in D.C. Metro? It's abysmal right now. SafeTrack is fucking everything up. Took me an extra hour and a half to get back from class last week because they are single tracking between Vienna and West Falls Church.

They ignored the track infrastructure and condition of the trains since its inception. And we are all paying for it now.

>>911388
Only because Penn Station was murdered.

>>955864
That's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen

Do you know if that was planned or just natural growth? There looks like a lot of moss so I'm leaning towards the latter

>>907180
When was the last time it looked like that?

>>1011007
this

>>1011525

It was planned this way, grassed tracks are quite common for trams.

>>972826
if one glass window is broken on this building, the reparation cost is roughly 1 million SEK. It has happened several times. I live there

John D. Dingell Transit Center in Dearborn, Michigan

Description: very new transit center serving Amtrak and buses.

Reason why it's my favorite: it's adjacent to the Henry Ford Museum complex and there is a gate to the complex from the station (you can actually walk to the museum from the train without taking a car or bus, something that is a bit of a rarity in the US Midwest). They also have a steam locomotive display in the main lobby on indefinite loan from the museum.

>>911153
It's getting a significant upgrade though. They are buying EMUs and upgrading the infrastructure.

>>1016035
Not him but it is a pretty cool place. Here is a video of it: https://youtu.be/vWkb2dcjvu8