page_title: Train shed
section_title: Classic metal and glass
hierarchical_section_title: Train shed / Types of train shed / Classic metal and glass
caption_attribution_description: English: Wemyss Bay railway station Photograph by wilm, from Flickr.
context_page_description: A train shed is a building adjacent to a station building where the tracks and platforms of a railway station are covered by a roof. It is also known as an overall roof. The first train shed was built in 1830 at Liverpool's Crown Street Station.
  The biggest train sheds were often built as an arch of glass and iron, while the smaller were built as normal pitched roofs.
  The train shed with the biggest single span ever built was that at the second Philadelphia Broad Street Station, built in 1891.
context_section_description: The middle of the nineteenth century saw many large stations covered by iron, steel and glass train sheds, inspired by The Crystal Palace at The Great Exhibition in 1851. The best have been described as "like cathedrals" and feature curved roofs; other structures have pitched roofs.
  Surviving examples of curved roof train sheds include:
  Amsterdam Centraal, Netherlands
  Antwerpen-Centraal, Belgium
  Bath Green Park railway station, England (converted to covered market and car park)
  Bangkok, Thailand
  Barcelona Estació de França, Catalonia, Spain
  Brighton, England
  Bristol Temple Meads, England
  Copenhagen Central Station, Denmark
  Darlington Bank Top, England
  Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, Germany
  Glasgow Queen Street, Scotland
  Hull Paragon, England
  Gare de Lille Flandres, France
  Köln Hauptbahnhof, Germany
  Liverpool Lime Street, England
  London Kings Cross, England
  London Paddington, England
  London St Pancras, England
  Madrid Atocha, Spain (converted to station atrium)
  Manchester Central, England (converted to conference centre)
  Manchester Piccadilly, England
  Milano Centrale, Italy
  Newcastle Central, England
  Prague Main Station, Czech Republic
  Reading Terminal, Philadelphia, United States (converted to convention center)
  Tanjung Priok, Jakarta, Indonesia
  York, North Yorkshire, England
  Vitebsky railway station, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  Lviv Railway station, Ukraine
  Surviving examples of pitched roof train sheds include:
  Ballarat, Geelong (and No 2 Goods Shed Melbourne), Australia
  Beverley, England
  Bournemouth, England
  Budapest Nyugati, Hungary
  Budapest Keleti, Hungary
  Carlisle Citadel, England
  Chester, England
  Crewe, England
  Edinburgh Waverley, Scotland
  Frome, England
  Filey, England
  Glasgow Central station, Scotland
  Harrisburg Transportation Center, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
  Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  London Liverpool Street, England
  Paris Gare du Nord, France
  Paris Gare de Lyon, France
  Preston, England
  Stoke-on-Trent, England
  Wemyss Bay, Scotland
  Surviving examples of Bush-type, developed by American civil engineer Lincoln Bush, and related train sheds include:
  Hoboken Terminal, Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
  Union Station, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
  Toronto Union Station, Toronto, Ontario, Canada - designed by A.R. Ketterson
  Communipaw Terminal, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
  Mount Royal Station used by Maryland Institute College of Art for its Sculpture program Baltimore, Maryland
  Surviving examples of other train sheds include:
  Pennsylvania Station (Newark), Newark, New Jersey, United States
  The SEPTA platform area of 30th Street Station, Philadelphia, United States
caption: Wemyss Bay
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