From the category archives:

Stations

Mutiny

September 3, 2009

A member of platform staff takes matters into his own hands and, as a result, wins the respect and admiration of a mob of harassed commuters.

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Possibly the best station in the world

November 8, 2007

‘Best station in the world’ is an accolade that would cheer any network, but when that station is British and the compliment came from the head of France’s SNCF, it’s high praise indeed. SNCF is considered by many to run the best railway service on the planet.
The station in question is the restored St Pancras [...]

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Transport for London Style Guide

October 26, 2007

Think of the Tube, and the first image that enters your mind is the red and blue circle and bar roundel. It’s used everywhere on the trains, the maps, the tickets, the walls… But that’s just the start of it. Dig around the Transport for London web site and you’ll come across its excellent Station Products Guide PDF, which specifies everything from the platform-end fences that stop you getting electrocuted, to the channels screwed onto the station ceilings to keep the cables out of the way.

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The new St Pancras

October 24, 2007

The Guardian has published a very long piece about the new St Pancras station. Too long for the web, really, and flowery enough to leave you wondering why it wasn’t cut down before being posted online.
Writer Jonathan Glancey is bowled over by it. And so he should be. I’ve been in there myself since the [...]

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