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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 6 (October 1, 1928)

New Depot in Paris

New Depot in Paris.

Europe possesses may fine railway terminals. To the number of European railway stations of outstanding merit there will shortly be added another new terminal by the construction of a fine depot in Paris by the Eastern Railway.
Seventy-Five Feet Beneath The Roar Of London. Three-car Crewless Train on the London Postal Tube Railway.

Seventy-Five Feet Beneath The Roar Of London.
Three-car Crewless Train on the London Postal Tube Railway.

This giant station will have a frontage of 590 feet, and will have thirty platforms under cover, varying from 900 to 1,000 feet in length. At the new terminal there will be handled annually something like 26,000,000 passengers, and the station will rank as one of the largest passenger depots in the world. The original Eastern terminal in Paris was opened in 1855. It was a diminutive depot with just two platforms. To-day eighteen platforms are provided, and this number will be increased to thirty on the completion of the re-building. One interesting result of the re-building scheme will be that Leipzig station, on the German railways, will no longer rank as Europe's biggest passenger depot. Even this notable terminal, which has aroused the admiration of railwaymen from every land, will have to take second place to the wonderful new structure now being erected by the Eastern Railway in the cosmopolitian French capital.