View allAll Photos Tagged STATION
Central Station, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2020
Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
© 2012-2020 Oguzhan Ceyhan. All rights reserved.
Amsterdam Central Station is the central station of the Dutch capital Amsterdam. It was built between 1881 and 1889 to a design by P.J.H. Cuypers, A.L. van Gendt (station building) and L.J. Eijmer (station cover). The station has six platforms that are accessible via three transverse corridors under the 15 tracks (11 of which platform tracks). Every day, Amsterdam Central has approximately 160,000 boarding and alighting passengers, making it the busiest station in the Netherlands after Utrecht Central station. Travelers can use trains, metros, trams, buses and ferries. The station is located on the repurposed Station Island in the IJ.
Station Amsterdam Centraal is het centraal station van de Nederlandse hoofdstad Amsterdam. Het is gebouwd tussen 1881 en 1889 naar ontwerp van P.J.H. Cuypers, A.L. van Gendt (stationsgebouw) en L.J. Eijmer (stationskap). Het station telt zes perrons die via drie dwarsgangen onder de 15 sporen (waarvan 11 perronsporen) bereikbaar zijn. Dagelijks telt Amsterdam Centraal circa 160.000 in- en uitstappers, waarmee het na station Utrecht Centraal het drukste station van Nederland is. Reizigers kunnen gebruikmaken van treinen, metro's, trams, bussen en veren. Het station is gelegen op het aangeplempte Stationseiland in het IJ.
Arnhem – Het station is op 19 november 2015 officieel geopend. Het station is klaar voor de toekomst. Reizigers en gebruikers van het station kunnen genieten van de prachtige architectuur en de vele faciliteiten.
Arnhem Station - is officially opened on november 19, 2015. The station is ready for the future. Guests and users of the station can enjoy the beautiful architecture and the many facilities.
Station Arnhem Centraal is het centrale spoorwegstation van Arnhem en chronologisch het vierde in de hoofdstad van de provincie Gelderland. Het is met circa 38.000 in- en uitstappers van NS-treinen per dag (reizigers van andere spoorvervoerders niet meegerekend) in reizigersaantallen het 14de station van Nederland, en na Nijmegen het drukste NS-station van de provincie.Het centraal station is een van de zes Nederlandse wereldstations. Arnhem Centraal is de belangrijkste knooppunt van openbaar vervoer in Oost-Nederland en in het spoorwegverkeer met Duitsland, Utrecht, Zwolle, Nijmegen, Tiel en de Achterhoek. Bovendien is het een grote overstapknoop voor het stads- en streekvervoer in Gelderland. Het huidige station stamt uit 2015, en is naar ontwerp van Ben van Berkel.
Erasmusbrug Rotterdam
Arnhem Central Station is the central station of Arnhem and chronologically the fourth in the capital of the province of Gelderland. It has approximately 38,000 boarding and alighting from railway trains (excluding travelers from other rail carriers) daily passenger numbers in the 14th station of the Netherlands, Nijmegen and after the busiest of the county railway station. The main railway station is one of six Dutch world stations. Arnhem Centraal is the main hub of public transportation in the eastern Netherlands and rail traffic with Germany, Utrecht, Zwolle, Nijmegen, Tiel and the Achterhoek. Moreover, it is a big switch button for urban and regional transport in Gelderland. The current station dates from 2015 and was designed by Ben van Berkel.
Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam
An RTD commuter train, decked in University of Colorado ad livery, awaits departure from Denver's renovated Union Station.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 160, f/11.0, 18mm, 1/500s
The Station Shop @ llanberis
Llanberis is a village, community and electoral ward in Gwynedd, northwest Wales, on the southern bank of the lake Llyn Padarn and at the foot of Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales.
KraftWork Gas Station @ Fameshed
N4RS Valkenberg Street Light @ Fameshed
N4RS Valkenberg Park Bench @ Fameshed
JIAN Fallow Buck Static @ Fameshed
JIAN Fallow Doe Static @ Fameshed
KraftWork: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Last%20Forever/110/8...
N4RS: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/N4RS/240/45/23
JIAN: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Jian/244/238/23
Fameshed: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FaMESHed/158/158/22
The new station hall in Berlin fascinates with architecturally interesting elements. In the background the Bundestag.
There are some starlings living around Rotterdam Central Station. Some of them imitate even train sounds.
Former radio station Radio Kootwijk is a monumental building with a special history, in which connection is central. The building is architecturally unique, in its special Art Deco style.
Architect Julius Luthmann was commissioned in 1920 to build a hall for the large dynamo of long-wave radio transmission equipment. The desolate sand drift near Apeldoorn lent itself well to an interference-free transmitter. Luthmann was not allowed to use wood and iron, so it was made entirely of concrete. In the rich Netherlands of those days, no more or less was looked at. The design has been worked out to perfection and finished in Art Deco down to the last detail.
History:
At the start of the twentieth century, the Netherlands was a trading nation with extensive overseas territories. Its interests were served by a quick connection to the colonies, especially the Dutch East Indies. Direct communication took place by way of electric telegrams, which required cable connections. Prior to this, the Netherlands was dependent on England and Germany. When the First World War broke out the disadvantages of this dependence increased. In 1918, the government decided to realise their own international communication network, independent of the neighbouring countries. After much political debate it was decided to build a long wave transmission station enabling permanent contact with the Dutch East Indies using radio telegraphs.
To establish the radio transmitting station they looked for an uninhabited, remote terrain so there would be minimum interference to the transmission traffic from the environment. The 450 hectare terrain was bought by the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management from the Dutch National Forestry Commission.
About 150 labourers from Amsterdam levelled the terrain. The antenna terrain was constructed as a circular plain with a diameter of approximately 1200 metres, a ring of five 212 metre high masts around a central mast at the foot of the transmitter building. The radio transmission centre was officially put into operation in May 1923, initially for Morse telegraph traffic. The developments in radio technology advanced rapidly. After a few years it became apparent that the long wave connections were outdated and too expensive. They switched to a short wave frequency for a higher signalling rate, better connections, lower energy consumption and smaller equipment.
The station initially operated under the name Radio Assel, but also became known under the name Radio Hoog Buurlo. 'Kootwijk Radio' was the international call sign for radio traffic. Queen Emma brought about the first telephone connection in 1929 with the Dutch East Indies with the legendary words: “Hello Bandoeng Hello Bandoeng! Can you hear me?". The first conversations, which invariably concluded with the Dutch national anthem Wilhelmus, were free as it was still in an experimental phase. Subsequently, people had to pay considerable amounts for a phone call to family members overseas. The PTT (state enterprise for Post, Telegraphs and Telephony of the Netherlands) tried to interest the public in overseas phone calls through advertising. Cheap family phone calls, only on Saturdays with 30% discount off the normal rates cost f 21 in those days for a three minute call to Java, for example. In those days the average weekly salary was f 25.
Missed the train... another 19 minutes in the drizzle. I like this station, functional and unassuming, but it has it's own character.. It's a perfect fit for this suburb. I think Reservoir was the first on this line to be rebuilt to eliminate the level crossing. Then came both Bell and Preston, next it's Keon Park and Ruthven. Our northern suburbs are getting some love.