Sentence examples for great station from inspiring English sources

Since it started with the notion of a great station in the Farley, that's what the public should get".

But in that same era even little railroad stations still were manned; perhaps the stationmaster telegraphed word of our plight to Alton and had my parents paged in the echoing great station.

They were born to immeasurable wealth and great station; they behaved accordingly, in that way no different psychologically from the peasants who numbly pushed plows and existed on porridge.

It was four o'clock on Friday, and the great station was athrong with citizens on their way somewhere, laden with baggage and precious packages, shouting goodbyes and greetings, flagging their arms, embracing, gripping each other with pleasure.

This great station has become a grim shambles of shameful, cheapjack alterations but the wave-form canopy of the new western concourse will be the most striking piece of British railway architecture since the marvellously crafted articulations of Sir Nicholas Grimshaw's Eurostar concourse at Waterloo in the 1990s.

"I didn't buy this building in 1983 and say, 'Just think -- in 21 years, I'm going to be chairman of the M.T.A. and there's going to be a great station".' Gene Russianoff, the staff attorney of the New York Public Interest Research Group Straphangers Campaign, said he was convinced that Mr. Kalikow had kept an appropriate distance.

"New York City has a tradition of great stations.

Till is right, in that the last things you need are extravagant shapes and mannerisms in the presence of structures as powerful as the great stations, the granary and the temporarily absent gas holders.

The modern tycoons in this area are certainly different from their Victorian predecessors, the railway companies who built the great stations of King's Cross and St Pancras, with their associated tracks, marshalling yards and coal drops, which still define the area.

All this meant that in the America of Edith Wharton and Henry James, travelling by train, and arriving and leaving great cities and great stations by train, was an ennobling experience and an exhilarating adventure.

Use the 'buddy system' while visiting the great stations setup at the air show.