Early wooden train sheds The earliest train sheds were wooden structures, often with unglazed openings to allow smoke and steam to escape. The oldest part of is a particularly fine – and large – example, designed by
Isambard Kingdom Brunel with mock-
hammerbeam roof. Surviving examples include: •
Ashburton,
Devon, England (station closed) •
Bo'ness,
Falkirk, Scotland •
Frome,
Somerset, England •
Kingswear, Devon, England •
Thurso,
Highland, Scotland •
Wick, Highland, Scotland.
Classic metal and glass 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, Somerset, England (converted to covered market and car park) •
Bangkok, Thailand •
Barcelona Estació de França,
Catalonia, Spain •
Brighton,
East Sussex, England •
Bristol Temple Meads, England •
Buenos Aires Retiro, Argentina •
Copenhagen Central Station, Denmark •
Darlington railway station,
County Durham, England •
Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, Germany •
Glasgow Queen Street, Scotland •
Hull Paragon,
East Riding of Yorkshire, England •
Gare de Lille Flandres, France •
Köln Hauptbahnhof, Germany •
Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, Germany •
Liverpool Lime Street,
Merseyside, England •
London Kings Cross, England •
London Paddington, England •
London St Pancras, England •
Madrid Atocha, Spain (converted to station atrium) •
Manchester Central,
Greater Manchester, England (converted to conference centre) •
Manchester Piccadilly, Greater Manchester, England •
Milano Centrale, Italy •
Newcastle Central,
Tyne & Wear, 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, East Riding of Yorkshire, England •
Bournemouth,
Dorset, England •
Budapest Nyugati, Hungary •
Budapest Keleti, Hungary •
Carlisle Citadel,
Cumbria, England •
Chester,
Cheshire, England •
Crewe, Cheshire, England •
Edinburgh Waverley, Scotland •
Filey, East Riding of Yorkshire, England •
Frome, Somerset, England •
Glasgow Central station,
Strathclyde, 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,
Lancashire, England •
Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire, England •
Wemyss Bay,
Inverclyde, 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
Concrete The middle of the twentieth century saw concrete used as a structural material. Surviving examples include: •
Cockfosters tube station,
London, England •
Uxbridge tube station, London, England •
Volksdorf U-Bahn station,
Hamburg, Germany.
Modern steel and glass After many years with few, if any, significant new train sheds, recent years have seen some major stations given graceful train sheds by using modern technology. Examples include: •
Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Berlin, Germany • Longyang Road station on the
Shanghai Maglev Train line •
Gwangmyeong Station, Seoul, South Korea •
Jefferson Station,
Philadelphia, United States (the station is located underground but has above-ground structures to shelter the platforms and trains) •
Stillwell Avenue subway station, New York City, United States •
Waterloo International, London, England •
Southern Cross station,
Melbourne, Australia •
Liège-Guillemins,
Liège, Belgium •
Manchester Victoria station, Greater Manchester, England. In the United States, the
Walt Disney World Monorail System has some train sheds along its route, including the entrance-gate station and the main hall (or Grand Canyon Concourse) of the
Contemporary Resort.
Open-air canopy (May 2014) • The
Union Station (Denver, Colorado),
Denver, Colorado, United States, features an open-air
canopy structure covered with
Teflon. ==Car barn==