Stations built more recently often have a similar feel to airports, with a simple, abstract style. Stations in Europe tended to follow British designs and were in some countries, like Italy, financed by British railway companies. Various forms of architecture have been used in the construction of stations, from those boasting grand, intricate, Baroque- or Gothic-style edifices, to plainer utilitarian or modernist styles. Countries where railways arrived later may still have such architecture, as later stations often imitated 19th-century styles. Many stations date from the 19th century and reflect the grandiose architecture of the time, lending prestige to the city as well as to railway operations. ĭual-purpose stations can sometimes still be found today, though in many cases goods facilities are restricted to major stations. It resembles a row of Georgian houses.Įarly stations were sometimes built with both passenger and goods facilities, though some railway lines were goods-only or passenger-only, and if a line was dual-purpose there would often be a goods depot apart from the passenger station. Manchester's Liverpool Road Station, the second oldest terminal station in the world, is preserved as part of the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. The first stations in the modern sense were on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened in 1830. The first stations had little in the way of buildings or amenities. Crown Street station was converted to a goods station terminal. Crown Street station was demolished in 1836, as the Liverpool terminal station moved to Lime Street railway station. The station was the first to incorporate a train shed. The station was slightly older than the still extant Liverpool Road railway station terminal in Manchester. The oldest terminal station in the world was Crown Street railway station in Liverpool, built in 1830, on the locomotive-hauled Liverpool to Manchester line. Station with train and coal depot by Gustave Le Gray, (about 1850–1860s) The term depot is not used in reference to vehicle maintenance facilities in American English whereas it is in the UK, and even neighbouring Canada, for example.
In the United States, the term depot is sometimes used as an alternative name for station, along with the compound forms train depot, railway depot and railroad depot - it is used for both passenger and freight facilities. In American English, the most common term in contemporary usage is train station railroad station and railway station are less common, though they were more common in the past. In British usage, the word station is commonly understood to mean a railway station unless otherwise qualified. In British English, traditional usage favours railway station or simply station, even though train station, which is often perceived as an Americanism, is now about as common as railway station in writing railroad station is not used, railroad being obsolete.
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