29 Apr
2014
29 Apr
'14
8:43 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 07:03:40PM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
But with all of these historical big-city stations,
transferring across
the city is difficult -- there's always a central zone and the stations
are on the perimeter. Same in London, same historically in Berlin (dunno
what the situation there is like now?) and so on. Cities that were
redeveloped after WWII often got central stations (Birmingham, Brussels
etc) but they're not always very attractive either.
Berlin has a rather impressive central station now (there's a
'Megastructures'
episode on Youtube about it). Brussels central is really a small station as
there are only 6 tracks on the north-south link. All international trains depart
or arrive at Brussels South (aka 'Midi') and many don't even stop at central
even if they have to pass through it. A really nice station is Antwerp central,
it has a single span steel and glass roof, but there are now three levels below
the original one. You can look up from the lowest one up to the roof.
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