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For All You Rail Fans

Postby SW RANGER » Wed Oct 02, 2019 3:22 pm

If you travel a lot, you're probably going to be in a lot of train stations on the way to your destination. But train stations can be destinations themselves.
The best ones have expansive, stunning architecture, are easy to navigate, and are just plain efficient. Philadelphia's 30th Street Station is a work of classical architecture worthy of the city's history.

Atocha Station in Madrid has a jungle amid the brick-and-concrete city. The walls of T-Centralen in Stockholm form a roving work of art.


Here are 36 railway stations to visit in your lifetime

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Postby el3so » Wed Oct 02, 2019 11:24 pm

SW RANGER wrote: But train stations can be destinations themselves.
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Re: For All You Rail Fans

Postby SW RANGER » Fri Oct 04, 2019 2:51 pm

Maybe that's why you see a lot of Cops at those places
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Re: For All You Rail Fans

Postby rickshaw92 » Fri Oct 04, 2019 6:16 pm

Been to 5 ov em for travel. Sadly Stazione Centrela Roma Termini did not make the list. I have not been in 15 years or thereabouts but when I did travel in and outa the place it was dodgy as fuck. Fuckin gypseys everywhere.
Im reallly fuclimg pissed but fespite that I can still hit a tarfet at 1000m plus. mayVRVe bnot tonight but it qint beyond the wit if man. Nowhammy.
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Re: For All You Rail Fans

Postby ReptilianKittenEater » Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:16 am

As Rickshaw said Termini Station is rather scummy, at least it was when I was there 24 years ago.

The station in Moscow I actually a metro station and like others there it looks like a retro art gallery or a scene from a David Lynch movie.
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Re: For All You Rail Fans

Postby ROB » Thu Oct 10, 2019 5:15 am

Took a train Yangon to Mandalay earlier in the year.

No danger whatsoever, but a heap of fun. Highly recommend it.
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