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unusual facts about Train shed


Train shed

Market East Station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (while station is located underground, it has above-ground structures for the purpose of sheltering the platforms and trains)



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Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof

Behind all this, the huge iron and glass train-shed roof by writer and engineer Heinrich Seidel (1842-1906) measured 171 m long by 62 m wide (covering 10,600 m², under which 40,000 people could stand), and rose to 34 m in height along its centre line.

Pocklington School

The school sports hall is housed in the train shed of the former Pocklington railway station, designed by George Townsend Andrews.

Vitebsky railway station

In a departure from normal practice of the Soviet years, the Vitebsk station preserved its elevated train shed, five platforms and luggage elevators almost intact, making it an ideal location for filming Soviet adaptations of Anna Karenina, Sherlock Holmes stories, and other 19th-century classics.