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The Amtrak Standard Stations Program was an effort by Amtrak to create a standardized station design. The railroad launched the effort in 1978 to reduce costs, speed construction, and improve its corporate image. These stations became colloquially known as "Amshacks," a portmanteau of "Amtrak" and "shack," due to their small size and shape.
Often, the earliest station buildings were so modest that the main visible element of the station was the train shed, such as for the first station in Mannheim, Germany. Some early station building design teams tried to develop representative characteristics.
Dunedin railway station as seen from the Octagon. The station forms a terminating vista for Lower Stuart Street. Interior of the station, showing the booking hall's mosaic floor The clocktower at the south end of the station building. Dunedin railway station is a prominent landmark and tourist site in Dunedin, a city in the South Island of New ...
The station building was designed by the firm Fellheimer & Wagner, and is considered the firm's magnum opus. [24] Fellheimer was known for designing train stations; he was lead architect for Grand Central Terminal (1903–1913). The large and busy firm gave the project design to Roland A. Wank, a younger employee. [25]
The terminal is the third-busiest train station in North America, after New York Penn Station and Toronto Union Station. The distinctive architecture and interior design of Grand Central Terminal's station house have earned it several landmark designations, including as a National Historic Landmark.
A shiny new high-speed railway station is usually a highly anticipated affair in China – but this one is causing controversy online thanks to its eye-catching design.
Pennsylvania Station (often abbreviated to Penn Station) was a historic railroad station in New York City that was built for, named after, and originally occupied by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). The station occupied an 8-acre (3.2 ha) plot bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues and 31st and 33rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan .
The domed interior of the station. The station was designed in the Washington, D.C. office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill by Milo Meacham under the direction of Marilyn Jordan Taylor. It is a simple building in the brutalist style, with a large square clocktower. Although largely subterranean and lacking the grand scale that was possible when ...