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Union Station (Washington, United States)
Opened in 1907, this grand train station is one of the busiest and best-known places in Washington, D.C.
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Image: World Ice Art Champion Steven Berkshire of Michigan carves a polar bear at Union Station.
Photographs: Larry Downing/Reuters.
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Image: Former US President Bill Clinton at the Made in America store at the Union Station.
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It is the largest train station in the world by number of platforms. It has 44 platforms with 67 tracks along them.
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Image: Grand Central Terminal.
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Image: A vintage Low V subway car stands in the original City Hall subway station.
Photographs: Reuters.
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Paris Nord (Gare du Nord) is the busiest railway station in Europe.
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Image: A view of the deserted Gare du Nord railway station in Paris.
Photographs: Benoit Tessier/Reuters.
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Image: Models of rugby players and citizens hang in the Gare du Nord railway station in Paris.
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Shanghai Railway Station is one of the four major railway stations in Shanghai. It is an important hub of the railway network in China.
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Image: Travellers board a high-speed train which heads to Guangzhou in Wuhan.
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The Dubai Metro is a driverless, fully automated metro network. All the trains and stations are air-conditioned with platform edge doors.
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Image: A Dubai Metro train runs past Sheikh Zayed road in Dubai
Photographs: Mosab Omar/Reuters.
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Image: Women walk into a train after the official opening of the Gulf Emirate's first metro network.
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Amsterdam Centraal is one of the main railway hubs of the Netherlands and is used by 250,000 passengers a day. The station building was designed by Pierre Cuypers and A. L. Van Gendt, and opened in 1889.
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Brussels Central is one of three main train stations in the city designed by Victor Horta.
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The Moscow to Saint Petersburg Railway is a 649.7-kilometre railway running between the two largest Russian cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
The current maximum speed on the Moscow-St. Petersburg line is 200 km/hr (124 mph).
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Nagoya has the world's largest train station by floor area. It houses the headquarters of the Central Japan Railway Company.
One of the busiest stations in Japan, the twin-towered station over 50 storeys has a helipad as well.
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The Beijing West Railway Station is one of three major railway stations in Beijing. The city has the most advanced and extensive railway lines in the country.
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Hailed as the largest station in Asia, this oval-shaped terminus is spread across 32 hectares.
Designed by the UK/Hong Kong architecture firm of Terry Farrell and Partners in collaboration with the Tianjin Design Institute, it was was built from more than 60,000 tons of steel and 490,000 cubic meters of concrete by 4,000 workers in less than three years.
The glass ceiling is fitted with 3,246 solar panels to generate electricity.
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Image: Beijing South Railway Station.
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Wellington Railway Station is the southern terminus of New Zealand's North Island Main Trunk railway, Wairarapa Line and Johnsonville Line.
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Image: Wellington Station.
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