Brussels Midi/Zuid station is one of Brussels’ three major railway stations and is the busiest station in Belgium. The station serves all mainline services to Brussels, including the Eurostar to London, Intercity to Luxembourg, German Railways ICEs services to Cologne and Frankfurt and Thalys trains to Paris, Amsterdam and Cologne. Address: Avenue Fonsny 47B, 1060 […]
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Moscow Kursky railway station is the largest of Moscow’s nine railway stations, and one of the busiest in the whole of Russia. The station was built in 1896 and there are currently plans to completely refurbish or even rebuild the station, but a date and final plans are yet to be confirmed. Unlike other stations […]
Roma Termini is the main railway station for Italy’s capital of Rome, one of the largest and busiest stations in the world. The train takes its name from the station’s location in Rome, located just across the street from where ancient Roman baths once stood – the Latin word for bath being ‘thermae’. Today the […]
St Pancras International, also known as London St Pancras, is London’s gateway to Europe, serving as the terminus for Eurostar services from the UK capital to Belgium, France and the Netherlands. The station opened its doors in 1861 and has been operating internationally since 2007. Today its iconic grand gothic exterior and famous clock tower […]
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A Guide to Paris Gare du Nord
Literally translating to ‘the North Station’, Paris Gare du Nord is one of Paris’ six large terminus stations on the SNCF network. By the number of passengers, a staggering 222 million per year, it’s the busiest railway station in Europe, serving Northern France along with international destinations in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the United […]
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A Guide to Union Station Chicago
Union Station Chicago is the third-busiest rail terminal in the USA, serving 140,000 passengers on average every week day. This intercity and commuter rail terminal is situated in Chicago’s West Loop Gate neighbourhood and is the size of 10 blocks, making it one of the largest stations in the USA. The station opened in 1925 and […]
Howrah Junction Station is one of the busiest railway stations in the world. Located in the city of Howrah, in West Bengal in India, it serves more than one million passengers day, who hop on and off the 600 trains which stop at this station. Howrah Junction Station serves the Kolkata metropolitan area and many […]
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A Guide to Madrid Atocha Station
Located in the the district of Arganzuel, Madrid Atocha is the largest railway station in Spain, operating services around the country to cities like Cadiz, Barcelona, Malaga, Seville and Valencia. The station is also international and from Madrid Atocha you can get to the likes of Marseille. The second station on this site, the current […]
Hamburg Hauptbahnhof Station (Hamburg Hbf) is the main railway station in Germany’s port city of Hamburg and is the second busiest railway station in Europe after Paris’ Gare du Nord. The station was built in 1906 to replace four separate terminal stations in the city and today serves an average of 555,000 passengers a day. […]
Beijing West Railway Station, which is located in western Beijing’s Fengtai District, opened in early 1996. Along with Beijing East, Beijing South and Beijing Central, it is one of the Chinese capital’s four main railway stations, serving both domestic and international train journeys. On average 100,000 passengers use the station every day and most long-distance […]
Union Station Los Angeles is known as ‘the last of the Great Railway stations’ in the United States. This attractive station was built in the 1930s, combining Art Deco, Mission Revival and Streamline Moderne style. Today it is the largest railway passenger station in the Western United States, serving 110,000 passengers a day. Four of […]
New Delhi railway station is the busiest train station in India. Every day around 400 trains pass through the station and it is used by 500,000 people per day. You can board both local and international trains from this station which is situated two kilometres north of Connaught Place in central Delhi. There are many places […]
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A Guide to Penn Station, New York
Pennsylvania Station (or Penn Station as it is most commonly known) is the main intercity railway station in Manhattan. In 2019 over 600,000 passengers used it every day, making it the busiest station in the Western Hemisphere. The station is situated in the midtown district in Manhattan, beneath Madison Square Garden. All intercity trains from […]
Shanghai Railway Station is one of the most important transport hubs in China’s railway networks. The other big stations in the Chinese city of Shanghai are Shanghai Hongqiao, Shanghai West and Shanghai South. Built to great acclaim in 1987 and commonly known locally as the ‘New Railway Station’, Shanghai Station operates 155 high speed inter-city trains, […]
Shinjuku Station is the world’s busiest railway station, serving over 3.6 million passengers a day. The station is the main connecting hub for Tokyo’s inter-city and commuter trains and also its subway lines and many buses. The main station is connected to five directly stations and this giant railway hub boasts over 200 exits. The […]