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Stations: A Destination That Matches the Journey.(the best railroad stations in the world)
Byline: Jaime Cunningham
Among the many fine sights to be seen while traveling by train, few are as pleasantly surprising as the terminals one passes through. Madrid's Atocha Station, a large building with wrought-iron design built in 1892, boasts a large tropical garden complete with palm trees and terrapins. It also has a nightclub for those who feel like strutting their stuff while waiting for the train. Shopaholics will appreciate Berlin's Hauptbahnhof, which has 80 stores that sell everything from flowers and fruit to jewelry and eyeglasses. And London's recently refurbished St. Pancras International features the longest champagne bar in Europe and a new farmers' market set to open this year.
The Lahore Railway Station in Pakistan provides an intriguing taste of the region's military history. Built during Britain's colonial rule, it functioned as both a fort and a train station. The two clock towers were designed to withstand bombs, and holes across the facade housed guns. In case of emergency, the train sheds can ...
- Death in the morning: Jonathan Ray was at Atocha station in Madrid when the...
- Magazine article from: Spectator Ray, Jonathan March 20, 2004 700+ words
We arrived at Atocha station in Madrid at 7.25 a.m., groggy and hung-over from a night on the town. Some of us hadn't gone to bed until 3 a.m...
- Once upon a time in Taiping ..PX: Ageing gracefully: The wooden structure of...
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire May 7, 2003 700+ words
...stations." Today, only the Taiping railway station is in service. Taiping railway station master Abd Rahim Ahmad said the King...a station master, said last year the railway station was chosen to house the territory administration...
- District. Dilmurad railway station in crumbling condition due tonegligence of...
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire February 18, 2004 700+ words
...Jacobabad, Feb.18 PPI: Dilmurad Railway Station in Bahadurabad has become a glaring...to its dilapidated condition, the railway station reflects that one has come to visit...iron barriers and other parts of the railway station have been stolen due to no check and...
- PR Chairman urged to implement Sialkot railway station modernization plan...
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International September 18, 2005 700+ words
...implement the plan of converting Sialkot railway station into a model railway station and affix two promised lower A C bogies...here Sunday, had suggested that a mini railway station should be constructed at Sialkot city...
- Dist-(Ancient Sialkot junction railway station: safer place for baggers,...
- News wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International July 21, 2008 700+ words
...PPI) The ancient Sialkot junction railway station has become a safer place for the baggers...of Pakistan Railways (PR). This railway station also presents a desert look from 07...have not yet been cleaned at this railway station since long due to which the people...
- Baltics' railway station of the future.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire March 6, 2003 700+ words
...Byline: Kristine Kudrjavceva Riga's railway station has always been unique in the Baltics...if all goes according to plan, the railway station and adjacent square will by the end...in the Baltics. The $35 million railway station reconstruction project that promises...
- Thailand: Security measures beefed up at Hat Yai Railway Station.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire October 24, 2005 700+ words
...measures have been beefed up at Hat Yai Railway Station in this southern province of Songkhla...targeted in recent bomb attacks. Hat Yai Railway Station Chief Komet Machimaphiro said on Thursday...concerned units, including the Hat Yai Railway Station's security force, railway ...
- A sense of deja vu at Taipei Railway Station.
- Newspaper article from: China Post September 18, 2006 700+ words
...have moved their venue to the Taipei Railway Station. In the spring of 1992, when political...demonstration was staged at the Taipei Railway Station. Organized by the Democratic Progressive...authorities to be held at the brand-new railway station, was organized to coincide with a...
- Work incomplete at the Attari railway station.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. January 9, 2004 700+ words
...still lying incomplete at the Attari Railway station here, the last point on the Indian...have been spruced up at the Lahore Railway Station across the border. But ironically...visit to the Attari international Railway Station is enough to reveal the real picture...
- Islamabad railway station presenting deserted look.
- Magazine article from: Business Recorder June 23, 2009 700+ words
...points of the capital at Islamabad Railway Station due to no availability of commercial...new employment opportunities at sole railway station of Islamabad capital territory, which...these days. Passengers at Islamabad Railway Station said APP that to make the newly started...
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