Train shed

The station hall (also railway hall, concourse, track hall or Perron Hall ) is a hall that protects covers the platforms and tracks of a railway station and then the train station users and visitors to weathering. Often the main hall and the waiting hall are called concourse.

At the beginning of the history of the railroad wooden single halls were usually built at the reception building. These older buildings were often made ​​entirely of wood or wood with iron. From the second half of the 19th century, however, when transformed or construction of new stations with a large volume of passenger traffic came larger groups of halls, mehrschiffige concourses to run and gave them a monumental effect. With the increasing enlargement of the hall spans one went on to cast iron and steel constructions and today also used a lot of glass.

Medium to large railway stations in the industrialized nations are always covered and have a hall as a " shelter " for the trains and travelers. The reason for the usually large amount of railway stations is due to the soot of steam locomotives, which was the main reason earlier, and partly to practical realities: Great Rooms begin noise better and manageable. Another reason for large concourses are that they are Repräsentierbauten a city.

List of railway stations

Europe

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Without rail operations or aborted

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Italy

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Existing concourses

Former railway stations with the concourses

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Egypt

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