| Station to Station |  | Author: Steven Parissien
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 240
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 9.9 x 1
ISBN: 0714841021
Dewey Decimal Number: 725
EAN: 9780714841021
ASIN: 0714841021
Publication Date: March 26, 2001
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Amazon.com Review
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.
Product Description
Railway stations have long held a special place in the public's affection. The lure of the great terminus has been especially strong: the breathtaking grandeur of its architecture fused with the promise of adventure and escape. This book is a celebration of the life and architecture of the railway station. It examines the history of these fascinating structures, the great events both fictional and real that have occurred there, and how they have formed an integral part of the life of the cities they serve. Steven Parissien discusses the many architectural styles and developments that stations have witnessed over the past 150 years from the early provincial and colonial railways, the Victorian Gothic of London's St Pancras and the Beaux-Arts splendour of Grand Central Station in New York, to the modern structural feats of Nicholas Grimshaw's Waterloo International Terminal and Santiago Calatrava's Lyon Satolas Station. Archive pictures, railway ephemera and new photography are combined to create a fascinating visual record for all those interested in trains, railway stations and travel.
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| Customer Reviews:
 A triumphal survey of, and tribute to, the railway station May 21, 2001
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 1 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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