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I'm a passionate bus stop collector. Currently I'm extremely obsessed with Ukrainian bus stops. My Ukrainian collection numbers well over a thousand bus stops; best country to for bus stop hunting I've been to. I've got photos of bus stops from all across Europe though.

Pic related is a bus stop in the Petrykivka art style, which is part of Unesco's intangible cultural heritage.

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>>2036071
One of my all-time favorites is this beauty from Lipcani, Northern Moldova.

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>>2036072
A dilapidated bus stop somewhere in Kosovo.

>>2036072
That is adorable.

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>>2036073
Tipi style bus stop in Iskateley, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia.

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>>2036074
This one from Northern Ukraine is lovely too.

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>>2036077
A modern bus stop on the shores of frozen Lake Mjosa, Norway.

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>>2036078
Camouflage bus stop in Sümeg, Hungary.

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>>2036079
An intriguing mosaic art bus stop from Goian, Transnistria. It was a popular style in the Soviet era. They're still commonly found all across the successor states of the Soviet Union.

>>2036081
>Transnistria
Sir, it's called Moldova.

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>>2036081
More bus stop sovl from Ukraine.

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>>2036083
I just wanted to specify the region.

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>>2035500
Look at my four million population city central station, dawg.

>>2036131
>European Capital of Culture
Oh no, sorry anon.

>>2036131
I don't think it can transport 4 million people with wooden doors.

>>2036131
is that greece? everything about the rail system sounds like an utter shambles

>>2036394
>wooden doors

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Tokyo station.
my workplace.

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It's hard to find a lot of good pictures of it because it doesn't get a lot of use nowadays. The station isn't as nice as it looks here because on the other side is an abandoned strip mall. A developer wants to build apartments there, but as you can imagine after resident push back about neighborhood character (in reference to the abandoned strip mall) the county voted it down but there's a state law that's supposed to override it so last I heard the developer is making the project bigger out of spite. I'm unironically planning on moving into the city due to lack of TOD in the county. The train gets you downtown so quickly but the closest apartments are so far from the train station all your time savings are gone. Would love to live in an apartment here but oh well.

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And the tram one(RIP 56)

>>2037142
Is the strip mall an 'historic building' or are the residents upset by something else? Like is it going to be a big ass building blocking views or like low income housing brining shitty people to the neighborhood?

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Built in 1873, rebuilt in 1884, and expanded in 1905.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-baltimore-sun-metbranch-railroad-no/128394636/

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>>2035500

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Do you guys prefer open platform or building interior?

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>>2039442
Definitely building interior. Big art deco and union station styles are sovl.

>>2037142
speaking of TODs I feel like too many county governments and developers are too scared to go dedicated and fully make a residential/mixed use area car-free or car limited. I dont know if it is because of state zoning laws or the dot but yeah.
TODs could be much more effective if parking was just restricted to essential personnel rather than residents.

>>2039457
Also a big problem with Metros outside of NYC, Boston, Chicago and Washington is that there is not enough coverage. Most only have 1 relatively long line with smaller line/s that spurs out of the main line

For example take Miami as an example. One big flaw with the beach corridor is that it doesnt take into account expediting the journey from MIA to Miami Beach. The problem with the beach corridor as proposed is that it only serves dwn twn, and for tourists that detour increases the journey to over and hour even if the metro mover has ROW.
And bus lanes on arterials have always been a meme.
What we need is a metro rail line that goes directly from Lincoln Road to the airport much like an upgraded 150 bus route

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>>2035500

Bump

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Manchester Piccadilly may not be the prettiest example of Victorian brickwork, and the original brick front has been replaced by a dull 60s block, but I feel at home there.

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Partick, Glasgow

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>>2040884
And the corresponding bus station

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>>2040885
Plus here’s the new Hairmyres station in East Kilbride, which I visited today

>>2036052
came here to post this! based ke/n/sington enjoyer

>>2039442
cool station but also a great argument for outdoor platforms because of how got-dang confusing it is in there. prolly easier for locals but I prefer the simplicity of a good ol fashioned platform

>>2040888
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>got-dang confusing it is in there
It's designed after the mythical labyrinth of ancient Greece but instead of a minotaur it houses countless fentanyl addled schizos who will shout slurs at you.

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I pray and hope that they actually fix Penn Station.

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I've lived pretty much my whole life in rural Victoria, whenever I take the train into Flinders Street Station in Melbourne I am blown away by the architecture and just the general scale of the building and the surrounding square.

>>2040995
That's pretty

>>2040941
Just make sure not to rank C**mo tomorrow because he'll torpedo anything related to transit

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Just love the Piedmont service in general, except the F59PHI's. Fuck them.

>>2035500
>GO Transit MPI Express
Peak Canuck railroading. In a few decades it'll be as quintessential to Canadian rail as the F40PH was to the US.

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>>2045785
The F40 is already pretty engrained in Canadian Culture, it's on one of their bank notes

Bump

>>2040941
They never should have built MSG.
Or torn down Reading Terminal to build the Philly cross SEPTA piss tunnel.

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>>2047870
here's how it looks from the front, even though it's not that impressive

nice

>>2036077
thx for all these but this one in particular.

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>>2035500

>>2050351
What's it look like now?

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>>2050708
your run-of-the-mill postmodern platform stop.
At least the service is good (12 trains per direction per hour betwen 6am and 8pm, then 6 per hour per direction for the evening, and 3 for the night)

>>2050802
>postmodern
pretty sure it's just Modern

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>>2050807
It has 80's/90's postmodern look and elements that distinguish it from simple modernism (or functionalism). This could also be a translation error so correct me if I'm wrong, but
>pastel colors
>decorations
>constructed 1994

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5 minutes walk from my house.

>>2050810
I'm not exactly an expert, but I called it modern because of the simple, exposed design with clean lines. po-mo came afterwards with bright colors and adding back a sense of whimsey and non-essential decorative elements.
so, if Ikea is Modern; pic related is Po-Mo.

also, Moe Sizlac has a workable definition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0DwRAVJZ4A

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>>2050881
dammit, when I went to get the YouTube link it erased my post and I forgot to reup the pic

>>2036131
I lived in a town with 80000 population that had a bigger train station.

>>2036073
Who's Toka and why is he a shitet?

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>>2050882
Yes post-mo, especially the pieces you see in exhibitions go hard. Here, in architectural talk, pic related is framed post modern to distinguish it from the rather prominent international style and concrete brutalism of previous decades.
Similar motifs are there in both to see, color, those blue structure poles, same time period

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>>2050948
Another train station from 1990. Later demolished to construct larger shopping centre / station / housing

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>>2050949
This style is either very pretty or very uggly. Worse case it looks like toilet tiling

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2 years later its still a construct site and all they wanted to do was make a new pedestrian under-crossing. Probably won't be finished by the end of the year. Taken from the temporary makeshift bridge to cross the railway in the meantime .

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>>2051046
2/2. The concrete parts they odered (see prev pic) for the tunnel didn't fit, so that delayed it by a year. Elderly and unabled have stoped taking the train because they physically cant take the stairs.

>>2051048
>>2051046
lmfao Germany is such an absolute meme

>>2051064
People have literally broken their bones from slipping on the stairs in the winter. It can take some 5 minutes plus because of the length and height of the stairs, as well as long walking paths around the pits to get from one lane to the other. Missing a connecting train is a daily occidence for many. I don't understand why they cant just make a 20m retractable ramp over the lanes in the meantime, atleast for rush hour. It could be manual or automated with a barrier. If you can make it for street crossings and cars it should be possible here too. It probably would be cheaper compared to the monster of staircase, based on man power and resources needed to set it up, no? Sorry for the rant, I'm pissed about it.

>>2051096
Which bundesland anon? Havent seen anything this shitty and half arsed around Saxony. Maybe its those sweet EU development fund gibs

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>>2051097
Hessen

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>>2035500

Hilversum the Netherlands.

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The D Branch on the MBTA's Green Line has a lot of comfy stops.

>>2051507
Those are the worst-applied yellow lines I've ever seen.

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The Georgia Ave - Petworth station, by far the one I have used the most at this point. It’s a typical underground metro station, nothing special but that’s part of the charm, that is the uniformity of metro stations, traveling through god knows how many stops, each consisting of a spacious, tall, wide waffle dome gently lit up by platform lighting. Metro for me is such a comfy experience, especially later at night when you’ve been out drinking.

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>>2052542
The Takoma Station, which I use also quite frequently, I love coming in from the south to here at night and evening and getting that view over the low slung urbanity of ne, Takoma itself I find to be a particularly serene and comfy station.

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>>2052543
Takoma from another view

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>>2052544
Here is halfway up the Wheaton escalator, the station itself is quite interesting because of its shotgun style and the lowness of the ceilings, I recently found out that the escalator is in fact the longest one in the western hemisphere which surprised me a little, although I must admit it always was a leg workout going up it.

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>>2052546
Now this is one of the most interesting platforms in the system, the green line platform at Fort Totten, which seamlessly transitions from an open, naturally lit platform to the subterranean, gently illuminated, platform under the characteristically parabolic, waffled, ceilings. I also quite like the design of the lights on the open section.

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>>2052548
And finally, the Dulles station, one of the newest in the whole system, the design is quoted different, and yet its sleek, space-agey, and somewhat blocky and bureaucratic architecture still seems to me to be within the general aesthetic spirit of metro as a whole (and also goes perfectly with the airport itself, whose design I am also quite fond of), this picture was taken after arriving back home after a short vacation, the in which the post sunset colors of the sky blended with the station itself was quite beautiful and really seemed to me to be emblematic of what I love about the DC area.

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>>2052549
And before I go, here is the bus stop which I most frequently used, and used far more than any train station in the city, it certainly is nothing special but damn if it isn’t one of the most familiar sites imaginable, whenever I go back home it’s always a breath of fresh air walking up and waiting there for the bus to arrive. I would also like to say that there are lots of other cool metro stations that I unfortunately did not have pictures of, including the oft photographed, vast and cavernous Metro Center and L’Enfant Plaza, but also the unique semi open station at PG plaza with its high, flat, roof, or the rolling, low, horizontal ceilings of Anacostia. In terms of the trains, I’m not too picky but I like the 6000 series and below the most, they just have a more unique and officey atmosphere which goes with metro’s general aesthetic, and I much prefer the white and brown paint jobs, which again, go much better with the general aesthetic of the system and city itself.

>>2035500
From San Francisco, Glen Park Station. Love the brutalist design.

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>>2052554
im a retard forgot the picture lol

>>2052555
looks like the mexican subway stations in total recall

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The undrground concourse is kinda meh but my god is the building beautiful

>>2052550
That is the 5900 block of Georgia Avenue near the DC/MD border

>>2055330
I hate clocks that aren't in sync. A place I worked at had a row of analogue clocks set to different time zones and the minute hands were never within a few minutes of eachother.

Nice structure btw.

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My local - it is the first ever train station to be photographed back in 1845

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>>2056847
It's okay I guess, would be nice if the hall weren't in such bad shape and full of crackheads.
Also this pic is old, they've since removed the trolleybus wires and instead put up chargers for the battery buses which look absolutely abhorrent

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>>2056855
This is what it looks like today. Whoever thought those battery buses were a good idea should be hanged, drawn and quartered. I hate how this city is run by fucktarded gypsies.

>>2056855
germany has crackheads? so you have crack? I thought it was all exotic europoid drugs

>>2056845
Switzerland has Rolex clocks in their stations. Singapoor has Orient.

>>2056857
Switzerland actually, though it's near the border hence the Deutsche Bundesbahn lettering. The station is owned to 65% by Switzerland and 35% by Germany.

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Single to Cleethorpes please.

>>2050807
>pretty sure it's just Modern
If it was post-modern there would be just a jumble of rails and deconstructed train parts in a heap. And a sign about colonialism and how this station that never saw a black face before 1985 was in fact built by the Global South exclusively by black hands. Who invented trains. Overall it would only give an idea of a station and really make you think. Mostly hostile thoughts but at least you would be thinking.

>>2050887
Has the mural been vandalised?

>>2056855
>they've since removed the trolleybus wires and instead put up chargers for the battery buses
Why, why, would they replace trolley buses with battery buses? It makes no sense. Even if determined to worship the electric Jew instead using diesel like God and nature intended, why would it be better to cart arou d a million quids worth of explosive battery when wires overhead work better and are already there???

Switzerland has gone to pot since you gave women the vote.

>>2058532
Cute and quaint.

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Paoli station used to be a simple low-level station with boarding on both sides. Occasionally, an Amtrak would alight from the inner track and wooden plates were installed to get passengers over the tracks.
Then they spent 4 years and a billion dollars and built one high-level platform, tore up the center tracks, and fenced the shit out of everything. It's fine, but you have to do two flights of stairs up and two flights down, to enter or leave the platform. Fucking sucks dick balls with luggage and I'm not a fat fuck.
They could have built like one tunnel from side to side and saved so much cardio.

>>2058551
Only line 1 was trolleybus and they electrified the other lines that way. But it's still stupid as hell. I'd rather they converted line 3 to trolleybus like it was projected some 15 years ago and kept normal buses for the other lines.

>Switzerland has gone to pot since you gave women the vote.
trvke

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Boni Station, Manila

It's a shithole but it does the job

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They are taking their sweet, sweet time installing the elevators. Apparently elevator installation and replacement is the single most difficult engineering task known to man.

>>2059831
This transit has a shoestring budget in such a small town, pls understand

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>>2040941
To fix Penn Station, they have to bulldoze MSG, rebuild every single platform and track from scratch, and then force NJ Transit, the MTA, and Amtrak at gunpoint to work together.

My deranged fantasy is that they build a 2,000 ft tall skyscraper on top of the site, complete with a grandoise train station, a 40,000 person stadium on top of that, and then many floors of hotels and apartments and offices on top of all that; basically the capitalist equivalent of the Palace of the Soviets, and then connect it to Grand Central Terminal (Station?).

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I might make a whole thread on SMART it's a splendid little system for commuters

>>2059836
>then force NJ Transit, the MTA, and Amtrak at gunpoint to work together
LIRR as well I would presume. What is NJ Transit and Amtrak doing to fuck each other over?

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Footbridge to the main train ticket office Havant UK. Gateway to the town, first thing most visitors see from the street or when arriving from the west by rail..

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My local bus stop is unremarkable but in terms of LRT Commercial-Broadway is the one I use the most living in Vancouver. It's a beauty of a station

>>2061833
I see why they call it Hongcouver, I would have believed it if you said that station was in rural china or something.

>>2040877
Victoria is comfier, although it goes to worse places. I really hate Pickled Willy more than anything. I always feel like I'm being treated like shit there.

>>2061309
>Welcome to City 17. You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of Earth's finest remaining urban centers...

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i dont take the ferry every day but i used to take it home any time i ended work and wanted to go drinking

it's a hobo haven. there's a public library right there too and the pedbridge is overtly unsafe because it's full of gang members and hobos straight up live in it. there's signs literally saying "do not sleep here overnight" but the jeet security guards do not stop them. and particularly "tramp" styled boomer hobos like to fish from the boardwalk whilst smoking crack. it's actually the most east coast shit you will see in your life. some scruffy wiry individual wearing three parkas and no pants with a bright orange toque rolled up so far it's basically a beret will hit his glass pipe (filled only with hopes and dreams, supply chain issues, please understand) and throw his rod right in the water

also people claim there's giant wharf rats around but i think they're just seeing raccoons. i've seen tons of field mice and a couple normal-sized rats but never a WHARF RAT (i did spot a marmotte-looking thing on the nearby trail once though)

>>2062258
don't visit prague

>>2062274
I used to work right near there and I never saw one the fabled giant wharf rats either.
I did have a one of those methheads express concern about me fishing in the harbour though, he said the mackerel there aren't good eating. I was keeping em for bait.

>>2059953
Cute

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MBTA

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i like it

>>2047870
>rainy stormclouds

Kino

>>2064948
>californian views image of "weather" for the first time

>>2036072
even the anarchist couldn't bring himself to spray paint over that nice art. Good stuff

>>2035506
But some water vapor on all that nuclei!

Train stations should be modern cathedrals....for local trains. Depending on how paradoxical you want things...while everyone should live locally as possible, its the only logical collector point to be centralized, and make every city one city, effectively. But thats the light rail....and even if the tracks were completely covered through town. People dont think how much space is lost or what it does psychologically to the living space to have it statically bisected by tracks, the saying doesnt come from nowhere ("wrong side of the tracks")
A bus from the city center to tracks at the city edge might be best.

Nice as some of the personalities these stops, they should be proportionate to the need to stop....or not the train should not be stopped....

>>2066433
huh?

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Favorite is definitely Luz in São Paulo

>>2066927
Damn now that's a beautiful station

>>2056856
IMC trolleybuses would have been better anyway.

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Westlake Station in Seattle has no business being as good as it is.
>gorgeous interior
>elevators and escalators where needed
>ran as a trolleybus stop for decades until the light rail was built
>direct service to UW campus next to the football stadium, pro baseball/football arenas, and SeaTac airport
>under good looking historic buildings
>west end is below the monorail, four short-blocks from Pike Place Market
>east end is under Nordstrom's and a short walk to the convention center and a gorillion office towers
It's not my "home" stop since I live over in Kitsap and use Pioneer Square to go to/from the ferries but it used to be my "work" stop before COVID.

>>2066934
Yeah, it's a beautiful city, if I ever left the US i would probably want to move there desu.

>>2066936
They actually adapted the one trolleybus line to IMC a few years ago and had already removed wires from the town center. But now the trolleybus line is kill and I'm raging with the power of a million billion suns.

>>2066952
>But now the trolleybus line is kil
WHAT

>>2067009
Yeh, see >>2064502

They've been introducing those gay shitty battery buses and were going to shut down the trolleybus in a few years, but they discontinued it ahead of time because of construction work.

>>2067021
Oh I thought you meant Seattle and was ready to go break some legs at King County Metro. RIP your system though.

>>2066771
To which point, dear?

>>2067928
fancy cave you got there.

>>2067928
coolest Marta station

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Clark/Division

It's old and dingy and loud as fuck but I love it anyway

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>>2039456
>Definitely building interior. Big art deco and union station styles are sovl.

This is my train station. Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri. It is serviced by Amtrak as well as the KC Streetcar. You can see the streetcar stops on the far right of this photo. They are the small blue squares on the street underneath the over-the-road walkway/skywalk.

This station currently sees 4 or 5 Amtrak Trains per day. At it's peak in the mid 20th century, it saw around 200 trains per day. Frankly we are lucky it even exists. By the late 1980s, this building was completely abandoned, with no tenants and no rail service and there was talk of demolishing it. But citizens came together and passed a bi-state tax to fund it's renovation. And since 1999 it has been the official Amtrak station and has other tenants inside.

I hope that someday if we ever have high speed rail in the US, that this station could be part of such a network. It's such a beautiful building, especially on the inside. It's about 110 years old now. Here's hoping it stands for at least another century

So should a station be a utility at the edge of town? Or a cathedral in the center?

>>2069966
Cathedral in the center. The train station (or airport for that matter) welcomes visitors to your town. If you want to be hospitable, you give them a good welcome. Plus, being in the center of town allows easy access to any part of the town

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>ctrl+f
>"preston"
>no results
I know it was in a rough state before the repaint a few years ago but it's back to looking beautiful now. Just absolutely love the colour and architecture. Especially during a crisp evening in the summer, standing on on platforms 3 and 4, it's like going back in time. The rush hour trains have all left and taken the crowds with them, staff are having a cup of tea and a piece for their break, and a warm and blissful light descends upon the station. Pure magic.
This picture was the best I could find but honestly it doesn't do it justice, the entire station starts shining a beautiful gold at a certain time of day when the weather is good enough.

>>2070370
the only places named "preston" i'm aware of are niggerlicious exurb ghettoes where people get drive by'd every day and there is not even a bus let alone a train

>>2069966
only americans think mass transit at the edges of places is good. you're already not taking a car, so people around it are walking around and have time to kill as they make bus connections or wait for taxis. it should be in the center of the neighborhood it's serving or if it's new development with little around it already be mixed use or at least mostly retail commercial zoned to encourage it to be an actual destination.

>>2069966
airports get an exception because no one lands and immediately does shit, and the planes themselves need good corridors for takeoff and landing. the sheer size of a decent airport and its support infrastructure precludes walkability or even car-centric high density development around it and retarded boomers would take wrong turns onto the tarmac service roads and have their shitbox suv bass rattled by passing aircraft constantly

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>>2070370
(Me)
Well, I happened to be passing by this morning. Not a beautiful sunset but a lovely day all the same!
>>2070464
Preston is a rough city but I am very fond of it all the same. I love all of Lancashire, really. I personally think it's lovelier than Merseyside and Yorkshire, maybe not in nature or urban design, but in spirit and people.

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>>2067928
Sadly, I'm one station north.

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my local stop

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>>2071256
my favourite stop

>>2069966
Depends on the population of the town. If it's a major town that services many onwards connections and/or if the town is bordering on city status, then it should be built centrally, 100% of the time.
However, I think smaller towns and even some medium towns would benefit from placing their train station further away from the main thoroughfare, for several reasons.
The first is the inconvenience day trippers cause rural towns and villages when the railway is slap dash in the middle of the town. Yes, it's very useful for people who are going to and from work if they don't have a car, but having lived in a few different rural and obscure boroughs throughout my life, I promise you that most working people have a preference for minimal foot traffic from tourists in the areas of town they will themselves will frequent on their days off.
Secondly, it's also more exciting for the tourists, who have to make more of an adventure on their travels to see what they want to see. It's not like they have to make a stressful connection by taking a bus to another station, or anything silly like that.
Finally, it means that construction efforts for housing don't have to be hindered by a main street. One side of town can be mostly (or entirely) residential, and the other half of town can be mixed, with some housing, and some land for development. It's a win-win for everyone, the homeowners, property developers, the local councils, "concerned citizens", etc.

>>2071515
Dumbest post on /n/ rn (right now)

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My local stop, Prazhskaya. A quaint dungeon of brass and terracota.

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>>2071694
My favourite stop, Elektrozavodskaya. A thousand eyes, all on you.
Fun fact, in russian, -skaya is a suffix that baisically means "of", because most station names are presented as a quality of the station and not their own names. So, Prazhskaya is "station of Prague", and Elektrozavodskaya is "station of the electrical factory".

>>2071695
Beautiful station and interesting info, thanks anon!

>>2036071
Wow this is beautiful.

>>2071693
Explain what is so dumb about it. I think it's well thought out. Better than literal pornography that's on the front page of the board currently.

>>2071819
>having train stations outside of town is good actually
literally negative IQ take

>>2071823
Read my reply again, uncle. It's more nuanced than that.

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My home stop until early adulthood.

Now I live in the countryside with no trains nearby.

>>2072648
Clean and simple

>>2071515
Dumbest take ive seen all year

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metrolink baby

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>>2071819
>>2071840
Seeing your swarmed like this is only a little strange. Its basically just one half of what I said >>2066433.

But that its unpopular on this board should be no suprise. No subtlety about the biggest structure on the center of town being a black hole of local life, built only for people pointlessly moving around who must not actually live there.
Its second only to the airport paradox.
>4 square miles
>stemmed out to the cheapest land
>people start living around the airport....

Look how consumptive the trainyards here are in picrel. Thats millions in prime real estate.

>>2073260
This. Trains take up way too much space. Imagine how much parking we could fit in that railyard...

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>>2047870
I'm gonna post a few more pics I took from working as a railway maintainer in the area of Verona, Italy.

This first one is the Ceraino gallery on the Brenner-Verona Line

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>>2073326
San Massimo junction

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>>2073327
More Verona Porta Nuova, with a diagnostic vehicle in the background

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>>2073328
This one is from the C subway line of Rome, that uses autonomous trains.
Notice the rigid catenary

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>>2073329
Verona Porta Nuova at night

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>>2073330
Installing a new beam, still in Verona Porta Nuova

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>>2073331

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>>2073332
Me doing maintenance on a (disconnector?) in Verona Scalo

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>>2073333
Last one for now, I had to compress the file down from ~8MB to ~4MB, so sorry for the poor quality

>>2073335
Here's a Diesel Alstom locomative passing through the tunnels along the Nestos river in Greece, tourist used to board the train from Drama to Xanthi just to see the views from it, last 7 years there's no rail service except the fuel deliveries to the American military base in Alexandroupoli and by the way greek goverment behaves for this part of the country we will not get passenger rail again

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>>2073351

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>>2073352
Here's another one from the same route with a ALCO DL500C locomotive

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>>2073353

>>2073335
Kino. Ganbare, italian railway anon.
Italy has pretty kino railways, it's kinda shitty and run down but I'm surprised at how abundant and extensive rail infrastructure is. In Spain for example it's the opposite, everything has been reduced to the bare minimum and it's cramped and often put underground, so railways are often congested around the cities.

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it ain't much but I've always loved the comfiness of this particular stop

>>2035500
the fuck are you doing here ontario bro. get me the hell outta hereee

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Pretty Barebones.
Service is decent at least

>>2073913
I actually find a basic concrete platform in the trees the most comfy station type.

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>>2073913
hiya neighbor