Waiting room

As a waiting room, waiting room, waiting room and waiting room is called a space that serves travelers as a lounge to the onward journey.

The different terms are used for classification:

The purpose of a closed on at least three sides of the cottage is waiting the wind, weather and cold protection, the minimum level is a sitting.

Greater comfort waiting hall or waiting room with the character of a reception building, often in conjunction with service rooms (interlocking, travel center or ticket counters, baggage handling, etc.).

The luxury variant which is only accessible to a select group of travelers, is the lounge. As the system of car classes was differentiated on the railroad, there was often at train stations, various bus shelters for passengers of different classes. One finds such a separation now with the " DB Lounge " on some stations again.

Shelter

Shelters often serve as an advertising medium. The smallest variations can be found in the country at bus stops. They are sometimes in loving individual work designed by the residents of different materials ( natural wood, stone, corrugated iron ).

The most common today stops, bus shelters is actually not a house but a shelter made ​​using lots of glass. Its execution is often usefully so that a side advertising space only the right hand ( " towards" ) is located. Thus, the view counter to the direction of travel remains free and the waiting can see approaching their means of transport or be seen by the driver without leaving the shelter.

To a well- furnished include stop timetable panel, trash, bank or individual seats and possibly also bike racks for bike -and-ride.

Waiting room as a metaphor

The term " waiting room " is often used metaphorically in the artistic field. Here are some examples of titles:

• " Who is in the waiting room of Love ", a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA
• " Waiting room of dreams ", a song of the Cologne dialect music group Hoehner
• " Waiting room for a small fortune ", screenplay by Felix Huby
• " In the waiting room to the great happiness," hit tracks from Walter Andreas Schwarz
• " In the waiting room of history " book titles by Marion Dönhoff
• " In the waiting room of the singer-songwriter " film title by Jürgen Lodemann
• " Courage in the waiting room ," book title about a displaced person from Angelika Königseder and Juliane Wetzel
• " Waiting room " trilogy by Lion Feuchtwanger and title of a journal by Max Aub

Pictures

Waiting hall of the airport in Udon Thani Thailand

Waiting room in Leipzig Central Station, one of the last in Germany