On Tue, Apr 29, 2014, at 06:35 PM, Robin Gareus wrote: > > I'll be travelling by Eurostar to Paris, then TGV. I understand Paris Du Nord > > is not a very 'nice' place :( > > It could be worse, I suppose. It's mostly just crowded, too few > snackbars etc. > > On the upside, the architecture of the building is great It's interesting to compare with other stations in Europe like the London ones (note: I'm no expert). With the existing London stations you can see the progress in complexity of the roof arches -- King's Cross (1850 ish) has two large spans that are almost circular sections, Paddington (a few years later) has wider arches with a more interesting curve, and St Pancras (1868) has a single, huge and rather sophisticated lightly-pointed span. The Gare du Nord (early 1860s) has a single span of the size of St Pancras but with two straight segments rather than a curved arch. It's as if they had stepped up to the more advanced size, but the curve was still pending. (The roof structure was made in Britain.) Dramatic though and the end elevations are good too. But with all of these historical big-city stations, transferring across the city is difficult -- there's always a central zone and the stations are on the perimeter. Same in London, same historically in Berlin (dunno what the situation there is like now?) and so on. Cities that were redeveloped after WWII often got central stations (Birmingham, Brussels etc) but they're not always very attractive either. I'd much rather be going to LAC by train myself, but I couldn't arrange the time, so I'm flying. Chris _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
