The Anonymous Widower

The Garden Station

Stations increasingly are getting to be very grand and expensive buildings.

I was musing today about the design of the Windsor Royal station on the proposed Windsor Link Railway.

This railway could be a double-track railway between the current Windsor and Eton Riverside station and the Slough To Windsor And Eton Line, created in a cut-and-cover tunnel across Windsor.

Much of the area of the route is either car parks or gardens.

The station could be a single island platform with the following characteristics.

• The platform would be long enough for the longest trains to use the route.
• The platform would be wide enough to incorporate booking, passenger and staff facilities in a relaxed layout in the middle.
• Escalator and lift entrances at several places along the platform.
• Minimalist surface buildings much like the fosteritos of the Bilbao Metro.
• Light pipes and other ideas could give the station a lot of natural light.

The surface area would be one large garden with walking routes to the sights of the town.

Any car parking would surely be provided at a Park-and-Ride station outside of the town.

September 14, 2017 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Fosterito, Heathrow Airport, Windsor, Windsor Link Railway