Saturday, February 11, 2006

I love Liverpool Street Station


I go through Liverpool Street Station usually atleast once a week, and everytime i do, i am struck by just how much i like it.

When i get off my train as it pulls in, and look up to the massive ceiling above me with its tiny details everywhere, i can imagine the awe people must have felt getting off their train into London for the very first time, into this giant gateway into the city. With its odd sense of scale - tiny details on massive pillars and the steel beams holding up the ceiling miles above you, things which,if a station that size were built today wouldn't be considered in the same way. It is such a perfect entrance into the city, especially compared with Victoria or Waterloo or Kings Cross.

And it still has the flippy down timetable screen things with the train times, not yet replaced with digital displays, which make me feel warm when i look at them, even when they are telling me that my train has been cancelled.

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