Patrick Crozier

Up to know my favourite station anywhere was the central station in Cologne.  That was until I clapped eyes on Berlin’s new Hauptbahnhof.  Absolutely glorious, inside and out - light, spacious, clean, logical.  It’s the way stations should be.

So, that’s a German station beating another German station and if were to do a ranking I think German stations would fill up the next few positions.  It would appear that they are on to something.

Which kind of fits in with something I learnt on my study tour of German railways a few years ago.  Apparently, Deutsche Bahnhof - Germany’s national railway - had spent a year working out what a station actually was.  “A town’s calling card” was the expression they used but I suspect there was a lot more to it than that.  Anyway, it appears to have been time well spent.  The results have been fantastic.

23 killed in Maglev crash. I had been wondering what 23 people were doing on an experimental train but it turns out that visitors can pay to ride it.