The Nyugati Railway Station where the train I was on arrived was built by Eiffel’s engineering and design company - he of the Eiffel Tower fame. Iron and glass supported buildings was his firm’s engineering speciality.
The station is being refurbished to its original elegance. The underground is now a metro (subway) system originally built in the 1870's. The station is a huge 66,000 square foot iron and glass ‘train arrival garage’ structure with the trains park under a glass roof. Outside are 17 tracks coming in - 4 into the arrival garage, the others stopping outside.
There are two more buildings. One looks like an office building and one a repair building. A new park with a water fall feature is at the side of the station.
The main station outside. The building is too massive for me to get it all in one photo. It is hemmed in by streets. Everything blue is the original or repaired iron *the blue paint, obviously, is new. The windows are new but the same size frames as Eiffel’s architects/engineers designed.
The replaced ceiling and corridor running the length of the ‘train arrival garage’ on east side.
