Which is your favourite railway station in your country?

[Tooting Carmen]

I see that you prefer the most modern designs.

And thanks for correcting my horrible English.

Generally yes, although stations like Bristol Temple Meads also have their charm:

[Tooting Carmen]

In London my favourite station is probably Paddington, because that is the one I use the most and is also associated with the famous bear.

[Gredos]

Canfranc (the Titanic of the Pyrenees), closed in 1970 and currently being converted into a luxury hotel that will open this year

[Teutone]

Not homeless or a heroin addict.

Train stations in Germany are the hotspot for those.

The smell of piss, the needles, the homeless people you pass, the khat chewing somali you gotta share a train with.

I think Bonn train station gives me this authentic feel of Merkels Germany the best, out of the few train stations I been to.





We need more parking lots, road lanes, highways.

[Hithaeglir]

I can't remember any greek ones worth mentioning.

St Pancras in London is a beautiful train station and Wien Hauptbahnhof not so much in terms of architecture but it's super sleek, modern and efficient.

[Sarin]

I have a thing for rather quaint,rustic stations embraced by nature :

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[Your Old Comrade]

Station Haarlem is the first one that comes to mind.




























And there is a lot more to see:

[Zeno]

Volos train station, for the heritage railway:







Unfortunately it's one of the only nice railway stations remaining.

[Your Old Comrade]

The Netherlands has a ton of very beautiful train stations, tbh.. Den Haag Hollands Spoor comes to mind, but also Amsterdam Centraal, Zwolle, Dordrecht, Groningen - but also stations that are now gone like Den Haag SS (Staatsspoor), torn down in 1973 (which, like Baarn, Amsterdam Centraal, Den Haag HS and Vlissingen (destroyed during the war), had a royal waiting room, Den Bosch (destroyed during the war), old Scheveningen station (closed down and torn down in 1953), Rotterdam Hofplein (lost in the war), Vlissingen (same) , old Utrecht Centraal (burned down in 1939, rebuilt and torn down during the early 70s), old Nijmegen (destroyed during the war) etc. Another beautiful (former) station would be Utrecht Maliebaan.

A valuable source for pictures and (exhaustive) information, would be stationsweb.nl (in Dutch).

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

Rossio Station (Lisbon)





São Bento Station (Porto)





Oriente Station (Lisbon)