As passenger trains have been running just short of 180 years in France you would expect the stations to exhibit a wide range of architectural styles and they do. This book is a colour coffee-table style presentation of the most notable from some of the oldest to some of the newest (mostly built for high speed TGV services) and some of the smallest (including some that have survived for other uses when the railway has gone) to some of the largest in big cities.
One of them, which we will do a post on soon, isn't on French territory but on Spanish, and despite being the second largest station in Europe, is now desolate.
The cover pic (above) shows one example where new meets old literally, at Strasbourg.
Being 156 pages, the book can't be more than an illustrated survey and it isn't - a book this this size could be and has been done about the some of the stations individually - but the photography is generally very good and is a book which those into architecture will appreciate as much as rail enthusiasts. Landscape format, hardcover with jacket.
1 comment:
This is a wonderful book with very nice pictures. Highly recommended !
Cathy
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