Groningen Railway Station
Posted in Architecture, Trips at 12:00 on 16 October 2014
Groningen Railway Station is an architectural confection, superficially a bit like St Pancras. A Cathedral to steam.
This is its exterior from the ring road:-
It’s the interior that’s the gem though.
Apparently until quite recently all this lovely brickwork and decoration was covered up by plasterboard or something. When that was stripped off they discovered what they’d been missing. (There’s a couple of pigeons up there somewhere in these two photos.)
This is the cupola in the roof of the entrance hall:-
This is the vaulted roof in a side corridor!
And here is the stained glass in the windows round the entrance hall:-
More stained glass:-
Tags: Architecture, Groningen, Groningen Railway Station, Railways, St Pancras
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Joan Kyler
19 October 2014 at 14:20
What an amazingly beautiful building! And it’s ‘just’ a railroad station. I don’t think something like this could ever be built today. They certainly don’t feel that people need or want anything pleasing to look at. I wouldn’t mind being stranded waiting for a train in this station! You could sit there for twenty years and not see everything.
jackdeighton
19 October 2014 at 21:18
Hi Joan,
Indeed. It’s a stunning building in all its aspects.
Everything nowadays is just so functional by comparison.
Thanks for looking in and commenting.