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:-
