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Published: 2009-04-02 11:35:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 642; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 1
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Antwerpen, Centraal Station. One of the most spectacular train stations that I've ever seen - each of the floors are terminus train platforms, except for the bottom level where there's a through connection, among others for the high speed Thalys Amsterdam-Paris. All this was constructed leaving the stunning 1905 station hall building and the canopy in place. [link] (Wikipedia English)Tech talk: apart from the frame, this is just me and my camera - no dramatic crops or poignant adjustment layers.
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Thanks very much, Tom!
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That's interesting, how the trains are "upstairs".
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It's even more spectacular - they're spread out over four or five levels, on top of each other - you can see the lowest level (international trains to Amsterdam, Brussels and France) somewhere in the picture, and somewhere in between one of the levels is for the city 'metro'. And on top of it all if a beautiful Belle Epoque station and arrivals hall. It's a photographers' paradise.
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Train stations here are so boring
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You must have a tunnel under England to the continent, with flashy trains running through it.
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Oh well, Ireland is not alone on this. In Cologne some company f
BTW, I like your sig, I've been wondering if I should do the same, if that's okay with you. May we could even do some "Street Awareness Week" and ask the Yard members to do the same for some time.
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The sig thing is fine with me I had to shorten mine, dA wouldn't allow my street essay as a siggy 
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Test... test... how do you like it? My only regret is that I couldn't include the birthdaycake.
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Hmmm, true. I'd love to add some carrot to the stick though, like "Miscats get less faves" or "Get the Right Attention!"
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It drives me nuts too but I keep reminding myself that some people just don't have a clue (actually Stuart had to point me out what "Industrial" actually was) and on top of that, there's the language problem. Maybe our French, Russian, Indonesian and Turkish fellow Street-lovers could help out there; and dA should make the definitions visible, instead of hiding them behind the (i). It will never go away, but any improvement would be welcome.
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I find some of the categories confusing... like, I don't really understand why there is a darkroom category
The definitions should be made visible, we need to lobby
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Oh, don't get me started... 
And then digital darkroom: 
Besides, even when I'm experimenting with HDR, it's still a means to an end for me, like a pola-filter, a flash or even the shutter on my camera. What matters for me is the content on the picture. Darkroom should be for people who want to tinker with technology at best, preferably under psychiatrical supervision.
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"What matters for me is the content on the picture. Darkroom should be for people who want to tinker with technology at best, preferably under psychiatrical supervision."
That should be engraved somewhere in dA!
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Well, they are actually still debating what company was most responsible, as it seems that suddenly nobody knows who was responsible for what anymore. But I didn't know that Amsterdam had similar problems, that's both interesting and chilling.
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A whole row of monumental houses had to be cleared of inhabitants and boarded up, because of the shifting soil. And, oh irony, what's a few hundred metres down the projected route: the city archives, recently housed in a monumental 1920s building. [link] ) (Dutch-only, sorry.)
You can see the beginning of the works but not yet the damage in Google Streetview - look for Amsterdam Vijzelstraat.
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I like a station that does not hide it's trains. There are too many in Germany (e.g. Hanover central) where you walk through a shopping mall with only the destination displays telling you that there might be railroads around. This one here looks like a nice station, though.
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IMHO, 'nice' is an understatement. 
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Sounds great, I have to go there some day!
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You won't be disappointed, I plan to do the same on a nice day, going without non-photographing partner, so I'll have plenty of time there.
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I've always liked the mirror effect on the -1 level, where the lights between the red brick walls converge.
I was only there 5 minutes ago, and thinking about taking a picture, but my time schedule was strict :-p.
The people on the picture wonderfully break the symmetry
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I think it's one of these places where you take pictures for a lifetime - but I only had 15 minutes or so myself.
I like the whole idea of the new station - breathing life into this majestic but dead end fin the siecle building and doing it in such a spectacular way without harming the original fabric, and the concept of putting train tracks on top of each other. I counted five levels including the metro, but I wasn't sure one was used.
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Thanks very much, Stamatis, also for the fave!
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