Train shed
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A train shed is an adjacent building to a railway station where the tracks and platforms are covered by a roof. The first train shed was built in 1830 at Liverpool's Crown Street Station.
The biggest train sheds were often built as an arch of glass and iron, while the smaller were built as normal pitched roofs.
The train shed with the biggest single span ever built was that at the second Philadelphia Broad Street Station built in 1891.
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[edit] Types of train shed
[edit] Early wooden train sheds
The earliest train sheds were wooden structures, often with unglazed openings to allow smoke and steam to escape. The oldest part of Bristol Temple Meads is a particularly fine - and large - example, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel with mock-Hammerbeam roof.
Surviving examples include:
[edit] Classic metal and glass
The middle of the nineteenth century saw many large stations covered by iron, steel and glass train sheds, inspired by The Crystal Palace at The Great Exhibition in 1851. The best have been described as "like cathedrals" and feature curved roofs, other simpler structures have plainer pitched roofs.
Surviving examples of curved roof train sheds include:
- Bristol Temple Meads, England
- Glasgow Queen Street, Scotland
- London Kings Cross, England
- London Paddington, England
- London St Pancras, England
- York, North Yorkshire, England
Surviving examples of pitched roof train sheds include:
[edit] Concrete
The middle of the tweentieth century saw concrete used as a structural material.
Surviving examples include:
[edit] Modern steel and glass
After many years with few, if any, significant new train sheds, recent years have seen some major stations given graceful train sheds by using modern technology.
Examples include:
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