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Station to Station | 
 enlarge | Author: Steven Parissien
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1279159
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 10.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 071483467X
Dewey Decimal Number: 385.3140222
EAN: 9780714834672
ASIN: 071483467X
Publication Date: September 26, 1997
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This thoroughly readable, irresistible volume on railroad-station architecture is so inclusive that it even has a still from Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. Filled with such memorabilia, Station to Station is like a long, wonderful journey in which the stations themselves--our destinations--are simply the high points. There are early timetables, plans, and elevations for many of the most famous stations; antique baggage-claim checks; and sepia prints of ribbon-cutting ceremonies. The volume also includes such mementos as a shot of the Howrah Station in Calcutta, India, with the note that the architect "was well-known for English suburban housing," and painful-to-see photographs of New York's Pennsylvania Station--with "the largest and most monumental single room in the world today," as the grand, light-strewn space was advertised--before its remodeling.
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This thoroughly readable, irresistible volume on railroad-stationarchitecture is so inclusive that it even has a still fromHitchcock's The LadyVanishes. Filled with such memorabilia, Station toStation is like a long, wonderful journey in which the stationsthemselves--our destinations--are simply the high points. There areearly timetables, plans, and elevations for many of the most famousstations; antique baggage-claim checks; and sepia prints ofribbon-cutting ceremonies. The volume also includes such mementos as a shot ofthe Howrah Station in Calcutta, India, with the note that the architect"was well-known for English suburban housing," andpainful-to-see photographs of New York's Pennsylvania Station--with "thelargest and most monumental single room in the world today," asthe grand, light-strewn space was advertised--before its remodeling.
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 A triumphal survey of, and tribute to, the railway station May 21, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Steven Parissien's Station To Station is a triumphal survey of, and tribute to, the railway station. This wonderfully illustrated history of the life and architecture of the railway station examines these structures and the events (both fictional and real) that have occurred within them, as well as how they have formed an integral part of the growth, development, and "personalities" of the cities they have served over the past 150 years. From such early provincial and colonial railways such as the Victorian Gothic of London's St. Pancras and the Beaux-Arts splendor of grand Central Station in New York, to the modern structural marvels of the Waterloo International Terminal and the Lyon Satolas Station, this impressive compendium draws upon archive pictures, railway ephemera, and new photographs to augment an informative text that will prove very welcome reading for railroad buffs and architectural students.
 An excellent, well illustrated book. October 22, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found Station to Station to be an excellent broad work on the topic. I felt that while it didn't spend too much time on any particular station, it did give good detail on most all major stations of architectural value, including the somewhat obscure. All in all, a book worth reading.
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