. The railroad and engineering journal . eutsclieBauzeitung, show the new passenger station in Bremen,Germany. The building faces the principal park of thecity, and the general design is very graceful, harmonizingwell with the surroundings. The waiting-rooms andoffices are in the building at the side, while the train-houseis covered by a lofty arched roof, so designed as to forman integral part of the structure. Through this train- size, and 78 ft. high to the center of the arched roof. Asmall view of the interior of this fine hall is shown in The ticket office detracts somewhat from th
. The railroad and engineering journal . eutsclieBauzeitung, show the new passenger station in Bremen,Germany. The building faces the principal park of thecity, and the general design is very graceful, harmonizingwell with the surroundings. The waiting-rooms andoffices are in the building at the side, while the train-houseis covered by a lofty arched roof, so designed as to forman integral part of the structure. Through this train- size, and 78 ft. high to the center of the arched roof. Asmall view of the interior of this fine hall is shown in The ticket office detracts somewhat from the size ofthis hall, and the doors are ralher too low in propor-tion ; but the general effect is very fine. The central pavilion and its adjoining structure on eachside have no second story. The wings have each three,the upper Hoors being used for offices and other necessarypurposes. In one of them is the royal room, with whichall first-class stations in Germany must be provided, andwhich is very handsomely fitted up and THE NEW PASSENGER STATION AT BREMEN GERMANY. house there pass six tracks, belonging~to the lines to andfrom Hamburg, Osnabriick, Geestemunde, Hanover andOldenburg. In addition to the platform close to the office building,there are two wide platforms running the length of thetrain-house. These are reached by tunnels running underthe tracks, but on a level with the floor of the main wait-ing-room, the tracks being above the street level. Theplatforms are reached by stairways from the tunnels. In the ground plan, fig. 2, the tracks and the plat-forms are shown, and also an additional switching track, I ■ I ^
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