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In the train shed of Wiesbaden Central station. This station is a relatively small terminus with about 10 platforms. I personally love train sheds and think more stations should have them. In Frankfurt the stations Frankfurt South and Frankfurt East (I think Frankfurt West too,but I am unsure here) used to have train sheds but they were demolished or destroyed, which is IMO a shame, and I think they should be restored.
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... is a relatively small terminus with about 10 platforms.
Wellington Central Station is probably the station with the largest number of platforms here in NZ... and it has one less platform (9 platforms) than Wiesbaden Hbf!
I would love to see train sheds in the European style used in Wellington, many is the winter evening I've been waiting for a train home shivering in the teeth of a cold southerly wind with rain driving under the platform shelter roofs!
Wellington Central Station is probably the station with the largest number of platforms here in NZ... and it has one less platform (9 platforms) than Wiesbaden Hbf!
I would love to see train sheds in the European style used in Wellington, many is the winter evening I've been waiting for a train home shivering in the teeth of a cold southerly wind with rain driving under the platform shelter roofs!
You have to remember that New Zealand and Germany and their respective rail networks have different dimensions. Germany is a country with 83 Million people , NZ about 5 Million. Germany has 79 citys with a population of >100.000, NZ has 5. That means much, MUCH more people have to be transportet by rail, which makes larger stations necessary. Then there is the factor that NZ is an island nation, while Germany is largely landlocked with excellent rail connections to its similar densly poulated neighbours, like France, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium etc. For a central station of a medium sized city like Wiesbaden (pop. ca. 280.000) it is actually quite large, but as far as it goes for the station type of a terminus, it is small. Larger Terminus stations like the central stations of Frankfurt, Leipzig or Munich have over 20 tracks.
Very true. Especially as not only are we an island nation, we're a multi-island nation where we have Ro/RO ferries with rail capability to carry freight, cars and passengers between the North Island (Te Ika-a-Maui) and South Island (Te Wai Pounamu).
I just find it amusing that certain things which in their own countries are considered 'small' would actually be a big deal here.
Like when I was working in the UK and I heard some Poms complaining about how rail services between London and Edinburgh had been reduced to 'only' one service every 2-3 hours... when at that time there was one passenger rail service a day between Auckland and Wellington.
And when I was on a project with a co-worker from Shanghai, who told me that she was originally from a small town that I'd probably never heard of because there was "only a million people" living there. "Practically a village, then..."
I just find it amusing that certain things which in their own countries are considered 'small' would actually be a big deal here.
Like when I was working in the UK and I heard some Poms complaining about how rail services between London and Edinburgh had been reduced to 'only' one service every 2-3 hours... when at that time there was one passenger rail service a day between Auckland and Wellington.
And when I was on a project with a co-worker from Shanghai, who told me that she was originally from a small town that I'd probably never heard of because there was "only a million people" living there. "Practically a village, then..."
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