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Station to Station is a celebration of the life and architecture of the railway station and its evolution providing a highly readable and informative account of the social and political context of stations over the last 150 years large and small. It examines the background of some of the worlds major stations looking at the history of their structures the great events which have occurred there and how the buildings have affected the life of the cities they serve. Railway stations have always maintained a special place in the publics affection. The lure of the great railway railway terminus has been especially strong with the breathtaking grandeur swagger and opulence of the architecture fuses with the dizzying prospects of adventure escape or challenge promised by the names of farflung destinations. The many stations featured in this book cover a broad spectrum of architectural styles and a wide variety of international locations from the Victorian Gothic of Londons St Pancras and the BeauArts splendour of Grand Central Station in New York to the daring acrobatics of Nicholas Grimshaws Waterloo International Terminal and Santiago Calatravas LyonSatalos Station in the 1990s. Beautiful archive photographs and drawings combine with the ephemera of railway travel the signage posters tickets and the design of the trains themselves and with new photography of some of the worlds most magnificent and innovative railway buildings in existence today to create a fascinating narrative and visual record for all those interested in trains buildings and travel. «
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