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London St Pancras Station on 3 May 2016.

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On this day two years ago (3 May 2016), I spent the morning photographing London’s St. Pancras Station.

The old terminal of the Midland Railway is my favorite London Station, and among the most influential railway stations in Britain.

I’ve featured this station in a number of books, including Depots, Stations & Terminals published by Voyageur Press in 2015, and my new Railway Guide to Europe, now available from Kalmbach Publishing.

https://www.amazon.com/Railway-Depots-Stations-Terminals-Solomon/dp/0760348901

Click here to order Brian Solomon’s Railway Guide to Europe.

These photos were exposed digitally using my FujiFilm X-T1. Although I exposed the images in RAW and JPG, all of these images represent the colour and contrast of the in-camera JPG with Fujifilm colour profile.

London St Pancras on 3 May 2016. Exposed with a FujiFilm X-T1 fitted with 18-135mm Fujinon zoom lens.
London St. Pancras. Exposed digitally using a FujiFilm X-T1 with Zeiss 12mm Touit.
London St. Pancras. Exposed digitally using a FujiFilm X-T1 with Zeiss 12mm Touit.
London St. Pancras. Exposed digitally using a FujiFilm X-T1 with Zeiss 12mm Touit.
London St. Pancras. Exposed digitally using a FujiFilm X-T1 with Zeiss 12mm Touit.
London St. Pancras. Exposed digitally using a FujiFilm X-T1 with Zeiss 12mm Touit.

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Milano Centrale Revisited.

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I made my first visit to Milano Centrale (Milan Central Station) in February 2000.

Earlier this month (April 2017), I revisited this amazing example of railway architecture and made these photos using my Lumix LX7.

Milano Centrale is like an O-scale building on an N-scale model railway.

This is one busy station and served by hundreds of trains daily reaching points across Italy and elsewhere in Europe.

Recently, I featured Milano Centrale in my book Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals published by Voyageur Press.

Here’s an excerpt of my text:

Milano Stazione Centrale (Milan Central Station) is a monumental railway terminal that faces the Piazza Anrea Doria. . . [the station’s] design was the result of an architectural competition held in Milan in 1913 . . . Although the plan dated from before World War I, its blocky style and super human scale seems to typify the public architecture of the interwar Fascist period. [Milano Stazione Centrale] was one of the last great railway stations built in Europe before World War II.

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Paris Gare de Lyon

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For my money Paris Gare de Lyon is the coolest station in France.

Here’s just a few views from my brief visit earlier this month.

All were exposed using my Lumix LX7. Film enthusiasts fear not! I also made some colour slides of this iconic railway terminal.

Read more about railway stations, buy my book Railway Depots, Stations & Terminals published by Voyageur Press.

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A Classic Traditional City Terminal

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My recent visits to Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi reminded me of other traditional railway terminals.

This Czech station  harks of Boston’s South Station as I remember it in the 1970s. It also bears similarities with  Hoboken’s Lackawanna Terminal and Chicago’s Dearborn Station.

Here we have ground level platforms, street level station buildings serving a mix of passenger trains.

Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi is a suburban station with an old shed over the concourse. Prague’s main station is only a 10-minute walk away.

I made this selection of images digitally using my Lumix LX7 and FujiFilm X-T1 cameras.

Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, Lumix LX7 photo.
Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, Lumix LX7 photo.
Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, Lumix LX7 photo.
Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, Lumix LX7 photo.
Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, Lumix LX7 photo.
Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, Lumix LX7 photo.
Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, FujiFilm X-T1 photo.
Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, FujiFilm X-T1 photo.
City Elefants at Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, Lumix LX7 photo.
City Elefants at Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, Lumix LX7 photo.
Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, Lumix LX7 photo.
Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, Lumix LX7 photo.
Telephoto view: Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, FujiFilm X-T1 photo.
Telephoto view: Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, FujiFilm X-T1 photo.
A diesel hauled train departs Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, FujiFilm X-T1 photo.
A diesel hauled train departs Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, FujiFilm X-T1 photo.
Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, Lumix LX7 photo.
Prague Masarykovo Nadrazi, Lumix LX7 photo.

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SPECIAL CHRISTMAS MORNING POST: Heuston Station Dublin.

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Christmas Morning, Nine Years Ago.

 Dublin is a quiet place on Christmas morning. Almost everything is shut. The roads are relatively empty. The buses aren’t running. There are scant few people on the normally busy streets. And the railways are asleep.

Irish trains don’t run Christmas Day. And Dublin’s terminals are locked up tight. It’s a strange sight to see Heuston Station by daylight with nothing moving around it. This normally busy place is unnaturally quiet.

Dublin's Heuston Station
Heuston Station on Christmas morning 2004, exposed on Fujichrome using a Contax G2 rangefinder fitted with a 16mm Zeiss Hologon flat field lens. Exposure and focus were done manually.

Yet, what better time to make architectural views of the 1840s-built terminal?

There are no buses or LUAS trams to interfere with the station’s classic design. Cars are relatively few. You can stand in the middle the street to compose photos with little chance of being run over.

Dublin's Heuston Station.
One of the peculiarities of the 16mm Zeiss Hologon is its flat field. When kept at a level with the subject this prevents vertical line convergence, however when not level, verticals suffer from extreme convergence; yet the lens doesn’t suffer from barrel-distortion, a characteristic of many wide-angle lens designs. It can be used to make distinctive architectural views.

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