train shed

- A large structure sheltering tracks and platforms of a railroad station.

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Beneath the train shed is a brick undercroft with intersecting tunnel vaults which used to support six platforms above street level.

Then & now Manchester Central; Welcome to Then and Now, where each week we compare images of Manchester streets, landmarks and buildings from bygone days with how they look now

The street facade, concourse, train shed and curved tracks offer some of the finest views in British architecture.

Six of UK's best railway stations in North East; OUR REGION LEADS THE WAY IN BRAND NEW TRAIN BOOK

Doors slammed, the whistle blew and the green flag waved as the locomotive's safety valves lifted, filling the station's train shed roof and surrounding area with steam.

Living the dream in age of steam; THE BIG PICTURE CRISS-CROSSING THE COUNTRY DURING THE GOLDEN ERA OF RAIL Author Keith Widdowson describes his travels around Britain in the final years of the steam train.. and says he's delighted to see the 'romantic rennaissance' of engines like the Jacobite

The new Bala Town Station would have retail and catering facilities with office and volunteer accommodation and a covered train shed will provide secure overnight storage for the passenger rolling stock.

Full steam ahead for bid to extend rail line into town; Use of existing bridge mooted to save money

For this is the northwestern part of the existing train shed in the project "SBB Olten, 3x150m demolished and rebuilt.

SBB Olten, 3x150m, dismantling

Before the mill becomes rubble, Veldman is eyeballing the possible preservation of an architecturally significant train shed built in 1914.

'It's the dawn of a new day': Brownfield redeveloper out to find new use for Iroquois Falls mill

The show will be held at Union Station Train Shed in Montgomery, AL on Friday, November 27th.

Funksgiving 2015: Featuring Robert Randolph and the Family Band, McLovins, and Byog

The sky-filling visuals may not have quite the same blaze in Britain's greatest converted train shed, but they'll have you dancing like the first time you saw Kylie's Locomotion.

STAYING IN or GOING OUT; Couch potato or gadabout town? We pick the best ways to enjoy yourself in the coming week g

Built over the station's tracks and flooding natural light over the concourse, it held the global title for 14 years until London's St Pancras Station opened in 1868 and its arched Barlow train shed roof usurped it.

Heavens open at New Street

The second section of the museum located in the former train shed houses various locomotives and rolling stock from diverse origins, including a 1932 French Micheline diesel locomotive, a 1923 Baldwin steam locomotive for 600 mm gauge, which ran on the Ge-Bi-Shi line (Gejiu-Bisezhai-Shiping) until 1991, and a German-made tourist passenger car, used from 1966 to 2006 in Myanmar and offered by Myanmar Railways to the Ministry of Railways of China as a diplomatic gift.

Yunnan railway museums and exhibits, China

This magnificent train shed once thrilled to the stirring sight, sound and smell of LMS "Jubilee" Class 4-6-0s steaming out on their long journey to London St Pancras via Matlock, Derby and Leicester.

BELOW ITS STATION

But comparison between the honest expression of the one with the elaborate front of the other was unfair, for whereas at King's Cross the railway company's hotel was a detached building on one side, at St Pancras the hotel--that gothic masterpiece by George Gilbert Scott (1811-78)--was sited in the obvious place, right in front of the great train shed by William Barlow (1812-1902).

Architecture: with its elegant simplicity, King's Cross Station has always offered a bold contrast to the flamboyant gothic of its St Pancras neighbour. Its recent modernisation is triumphantly in keeping with the original terminus building

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